Woman sentenced to 8 years in exile after saying ‘shoot Putin’s stupid bastard’
A woman who made anti-war comments online, including calling for the assassination of President Vladimir Putin, has been sentenced to eight years in a penal colony.
A military tribunal in Moscow found Anastasia Berezinskaya guilty of two wartime censorship laws: justifying terrorism, undermining the credibility of the Russian military, and disseminating false information about the Russian military.
The 43-year-old is a theater director and mother of two young children.
According to rights project OVD-Info, more than 1,000 people have been criminally prosecuted in Russia for speaking out against the war in Ukraine, and more than 20,000 people have been detained for protesting.
The ruling comes after a patient’s mother publicly criticized her for comments she made about Russian soldiers in Ukraine.A Moscow court on Tuesday sentenced a 68-year-old pediatrician to five and a half years in prison. What you do is what you receive.
In the first months after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Berezinskaya published dozens of posts online opposing the conflict. She said the Russian military, the Interior Ministry and Putin himself were committing “genocide” against the Ukrainian people.
On May 14, 2022, she posted more than 30 times on the social network VKontakte, hurling insults at President Putin and criticizing Putin for the deaths of men, women and children whose bodies were pulled out from under the rubble of an apartment building in Ukraine. He said the president bears personal responsibility. block.
Berezinskaya continued posting on that day in May and began calling for the death of 72-year-old President Putin. President Putin is now on track to become Russia’s longest-serving leader since Catherine the Great in the 18th century.
“Shoot that stupid bastard Putin, how many more civilians will we have to endure the murder of?” she wrote. “Off him from the face of the earth.”
Berezinskaya pleaded guilty to spreading “fake” and discrediting the military, but only partially pleaded guilty to the justified terrorism charge, independent news outlet Media Zona reported. There wasn’t.
