Kurilets-Kmetyuk Andrianna Stepanovna (Kurilets-Kmetyuk Andrianna Stepanivna)

In May 2023, in Moscow, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, on the instructions of Alexander Bastrykin, opened a criminal case for "inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliating human dignity" against Ukrainian actress and teacher at the children's theater workshop "ArtEtra, Adrianna Kurilets. The reason for the criminal prosecution was a video published in April 2022, in which Kurilets cut the throat of a man in military uniform with a sickle, while making "extremist statements." On August 23, 2023, Kurilets was put on the wanted list. On July 31, 2024, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow found Adriana Kurilets guilty and sentenced her in absentia to five years in a colony with imprisonment in a general regime correctional colony. The term of serving the sentence is calculated from the moment of her extradition to the territory of the Russian Federation or from the moment of her actual detention on the territory of Russia. The court also deprived Kurilets of the right to engage in website administration on the Internet for 2 years.