She published posts on social networks in which she condemned the war in Ukraine. In some of them, she called for the killing of Putin.
A military court in Moscow sentenced a woman to eight years in a penal colony on Thursday for posting online posts against Russia’s war in Ukraine, including several calling for the killing of Russian President Vladimir Putin. TASR informs about it according to a Reuters report.
Theater director Anastasia Berezhinská was accused of discrediting the Russian army and spreading false information about it, as well as justifying terrorism. Shortly after the start of the war in Ukraine, Berezhinsky published more than 30 posts critical of the conflict. She also said that the Russian army, the interior minister and Putin himself are carrying out a “genocide” of Ukrainians.
She did not agree with the killing of civilians
In May 2022, she published posts on the VKontakte social network in which she verbally attacked the Russian president, saying that he was responsible for the deaths of men, women and children whose bodies were being pulled from the rubble of Ukrainian homes. Russia denies that the military targets civilians in its attacks in Ukraine, although thousands of them have been killed in Russian strikes in more than two and a half years of war, writes Reuters.
Berežinská also called for the killing of Putin on the Internet. “Shoot that stupid bastard Putin! How many more killings of civilians do we have to endure?” she wrote.
According to the independent Russian portal Mediazona, Berezhinská pleaded guilty in court to charges of spreading false information and discrediting the army. She only partially confessed to the accusations of justifying terrorism. Mediazona added that, based on court records, the 43-year-old woman suffers from mixed personality disorder. In her statement before the sentencing, she stated that she would accept any verdict.
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, more than 1,000 people have been prosecuted in Russia, according to the human rights monitoring organization OVD-Info. More than 20,000 people were detained by the police during protests.
