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Berezhinskaya Anastasia Aleksandrovna

Date of birth: October 8, 1981 (44 years old)
City of residence: Moscow
Occupation: театр
Article of the Criminal Code:  280.3 ч. 1 ; 205.2 ч. 2 ; 207.3 ч. 2 para. «д»
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  currently serving a sentence
Sentence:  8 лет лишения свободы в колонии общего режима
Date of sentencing:  November 14, 2024
Current location:  Penal Colony No. 1, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Vologda Oblast

Berezhinskaya Anastasia Aleksandrovna, born on October 8, 1981, citizen of Russia, resident of Moscow, theatre director, actress, has higher education, student of Moscow State Pedagogical University, married, has two young children.

On November 14, 2024, she was sentenced under paragraph "d" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 ("Public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation motivated by political hatred"), Part 2 of Article 205.2 ("Public calls for terrorist activity on the Internet") and Part 1 of Article 280.3 ("Public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, committed by a person after they were brought to administrative responsibility for a similar act within one year") of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation to 8 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.

Deprived of liberty since November 14, 2024.

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