Personal Information
- Birth date
- 22 мар. 1992 г. (34 years old)
- Special circumstances
- human rights defender, in emigration
- Notes
- was the chairwoman of Mikhail Khodorkovsky's "Open Russia" movement and a lawyer for the "Postcards of Law" human rights project, heads the "Ark" project, which helps Russians who have left the country because of the war with accommodation for the first time (they have hostels in Yerevan, Istanbul, Tbilisi, Batumi and Belgrade), organizes language classes and emigration consultations
Burakova Anastasiya Andreevna
Case Information
- Region of case initiation:
- Moscow
- Charges:
- Article 207.3, Part 2, Paragraph d of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation
- Sentence:
- 7 years 6 months general regime in absentia
- Case categories:
- Anti-war case, Freedom of speech, Civil activist cases
- Foreign agent status:
- assigned
Case Description
In Moscow in the summer of 2024, a criminal case was opened for "spreading knowingly false information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the grounds of political hatred" against lawyer and founder of the "Ark" project, which supports anti-war-minded relocants from Russia, Anastasia Burakova. The reason for the criminal prosecution was an anti-war post in her Telegram channel, published on February 25, 2023. Sam Burakova lives outside of Russia. 27 May 2025, the Basmanny District Court found Anastasia Burakova guilty and sentenced her in absentia to 7.5 years in a general regime penal colony. The court deprived her of the right to administer websites on the internet for 3 years and put her on the international wanted list.
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