Rosfinmonitoring has added Cheboksary activist and former teacher Elena Blinova to the list of terrorists and extremists, according to the agency's website.
Blinova told “Idel. Realities” that she learned about the decision of the authorities when she received a notice from the bank about the restriction of banking operations at the request of Rosfinmonitoring.
On December 29, 2021, the security forces came to the activist’s apartment with a search. Blinova was taken away for interrogation and charged with participation in the activities of the Artpodgotovka movement banned in Russia (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). She was released on bail.
The reason for initiating a criminal case was two protocols under the article on the distribution of extremist materials (Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) due to the publication of photographs in which Blinova points with her fingers a “tick” — a symbol of the Artpodgotovka movement. The first was drawn up in 2019, the second in 2021.
In addition, the activist was twice tried under the same article on the distribution of extremist materials in April 2017 for reposting a picture with deputy Vitaly Milonov in a T-shirt with banned in Russia the slogan «Orthodoxy or Death» and the distribution of Easter eggs with the words «Freedom to Maltsev». Then Blinova lost her job as a kindergarten teacher.
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