Anastasia Ponkina

Participant of the Russian Socialist Movement. She was at the rally in support of Navalny on 23 January 2021 as a journalist. Despite this, immediately after the rally she was detained, taken to the police station and denied lawyer's presence for an hour and a half. The young woman spent the night in the police department. The next day, the court sentenced her to 60 hours of compulsory labour for participation in an unauthorised rally, which interfered with the movement of traffic and pedestrians (part 6.1 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offences).

In early March, the administrative case was dismissed due to the initiation of a criminal case about hooliganism. Two weeks later, Ponkina's flat was searched. Her laptop and flash drives were seized. A search was also conducted in the local headquarters of the RSM. In addition, Ponkina and other activists of the movement were questioned as part of an investigation into the possible organisation of an extremist community (Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). Anastasia herself connects it with the protests against deforestation on 40 Let Pobedy Street.

On 10 October 2022, Ponkina was sentenced to two years' suspended prison sentence.