In Belgorod, FSB officers detained volunteer Nadezhda Rossinskaya (Nadine Geisler) from the “Army of Beauties” who had returned to Russia, lawyer Evgeny Sokolov, who represented the activist’s interests in an administrative case in 2022, told Mediazona. He himself learned about this from the words of Rossinskaya herself, who called him after the arrest.
“She called me this morning and said that she was detained on a train in Belgorod. I don’t know where she came from; I didn’t have time to ask. Charges are brought under Article 280.4. I just briefly glanced at it, well, most likely about part 2, she didn’t have time to report, the connection was interrupted,” Sokolov said. The lawyer does not know where exactly the volunteer entered Russia from.
Photo: social networks of Nadezhda Rossinskaya
The article on “public calls for activities directed against the security of the state” (280.4 of the Criminal Code) is “umbrella”, that is, it includes articles on calls for terrorism (205.2 of the Criminal Code), extremist activities (280 of the Criminal Code), and violation of the territorial integrity of Russia (280.1 of the Criminal Code), “discrediting” the Russian army (280.3 of the Criminal Code), as well as calls for the introduction of sanctions against Russia (284.2 of the Criminal Code) and calls for unleashing an aggressive war (354 of the Criminal Code).
The lawyer does not know what exactly Rossinskaya is suspected of: “Allegedly, she posted calls on the Internet to collect donations for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, well, that’s the version for now. She said it herself.”
According to him, the detainee is now in the FSB building on Preobrazhenskaya Street in Belgorod. She doesn’t have a lawyer yet; she asked Sokolov to help find a lawyer.
“Within 48 hours they must take preventive measures,” he added.
In an interview with 7×7, Rossinskaya said that until February 2022 she worked as a photographer and model, and also took in stray animals and treated them. After the start of the war in Ukraine, she founded the “Army of Beauties,” a women’s volunteer movement. On its social networks, the organization reported that it accepts humanitarian aid, delivers it to civilians in Ukraine, and also evacuates Ukrainians from shelling.
On her Instagram, Rossinskaya continued to talk about humanitarian collections.
In May 2023, Rossinskaya, as she told Sever.Realii, left Russia “after threats and the prospect of arrest.” She decided to leave the country after border guards detained her at airport to the girl who sent the donation to Nadine’s account.
“They took her into a separate room, and an FSB officer began interrogating her. “He shouted at her, threatened her with handcuffs and an article,” the volunteer claimed. — I told her that she sent 300 rubles to a citizen who was recognized as a terrorist and extremist for donating to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and is now allegedly hiding abroad. And at that time I was in Russia.”
She left Russia through Belarus. Why and when exactly (today or even earlier) the volunteer returned to Russia is unknown.
“Ashes” writes that “until recently, Nadine lived in Georgia” and may have come to Russia to help transport dogs evacuated from Melitopol, which border guards did not let out of the Belgorod region.
«7×7» with reference to Nadine Geisler wrote that in the fall of 2023, the owner of the kennel took 46 poodles, 20 shepherd dogs and two cats from the combat zone to the Belgorod region, and then planned to go to her children in Ukraine through the only open border checkpoint in Kolotilovka . But they refused to release her.