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Olesya Krivtsova is anti-sportsPutin A tattoo on one ankle and a bracelet on the other that tracks her every move.
Authorities say the 19-year-old, from the Arkhangelsk region of Russia, must wear a device while under house arrest after being charged over social media posts. Russian army and justifies terrorism.
Russian authorities have listed Krivzova as a terrorist and extremist group alongside ISIS, Al Qaeda and the Taliban for posting the Instagram story. Explosion on the Crimean bridge Criticized Russia for invading Ukraine in October.
Krivsova, a student at the Northern (Arctic) Federal University in the northwestern city of Arkhangelsk, faces criminal charges for defaming the Russian military for critically reposting the war in a student chat on the Russian social network VK.
Currently, Krivsova is under house arrest at her mother’s apartment in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk Region, banned from going online and using other forms of communication.
“Olesya’s case is neither the first nor the last,” Krivsova’s lawyer, Alexei Kitchin, told CNN.
Kitchin said the teenager could face up to three years in prison for insulting the Russian military and up to seven years under the article justifying terrorism. However, Krivzova’s legal defense is seeking a lenient sentence, such as a fine.
Independent Human Rights Watch OVD-Info At least 61 cases were opened in Russia in 2022 on charges of justifying terrorism on the Internet, with 26 cases leading to convictions so far.
Olesya’s mother, Natalya Krivtsova, says the government is trying to give a warning to the public that her daughter was “publicly flogged” for not keeping her views to herself.
“We live in the Arkhangelsk region, which is a vast area, but very far from the center. There are no more protests in Arkhangelsk, so they are trying to strangle whatever is left in the early stages,” Natalya Krivtsova told CNN.
Aleksandr Novikov, a local leader of the Communist Party, publicly mocked the teenager on state television, calling her an idiot who should be sent to the front lines to “eyeball” military fighting in Ukraine’s eastern Donbass region. As part of the Arkhangelsk Battalion.
This is not the first time Olesya Krivtsova has spoken to the authorities for airing her views publicly. Last May, he faced administrative charges for disparaging the Russian military by distributing anti-war posters.
Things took a turn for the worse last October when he was accused of disparaging the Russian military on social media. According to Krivsova’s lawyer, a repeat offense under the same article will become a criminal case.
“She has a high sense of justice, which makes her life difficult. The inability to remain calm is now a great sin in the Russian Federation,” her mother told CNN.
According to Natalya Krivtsova, on December 26 the police burst into an apartment where her daughter lived with her husband Ilya, forcing the youths to lie face down on the floor and threatening them with a sledgehammer, which the officers said to her from “hello”. Wagner groupA private military contractor led by Yevgeny Prigozhin.
CNN has reached out to state police in Arkhangelsk for comment.
“Olesya was very scared because she saw the video The prisoner was killed with a sledgehammer,” his mother told CNN.
In the infamous video Natalya Krivtsova mentions, mercenaries from the Wagner group actively recruit prisoners, executing ex-convict Yevgeny Nuzhin with a sledgehammer after he tried to escape from his post. The video caption said: “The traitor received a traditional, primitive Wagnerian punishment.”
“The government has some strange policies: prisoners go to war, children go to prison,” he said.
