Averina Kapitolina Evgenevna
Averina Kapitolina Evgenevna
Kapitolina Averina is a Moscow resident who worked in television as a producer for several popular entertainment programs; immediately prior to her arrest, she had been living in Estonia. Averina’s partner was a Ukrainian citizen who fought for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and was killed in May 2023. On August 28, 2025, Averina posted a brief, harsh comment on the "Premium Nevzorov Chat" Telegram channel, criticizing a meeting between Putin and Trump and asserting that Moscow should be bombed. On February 5, 2026, she was arrested in Ivangorod—where she had traveled to visit her elderly mother—and sent to Kaluga, where a criminal case was opened against her for incitement to terrorism.