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Svetlana Makhnorylova
1964-09-30
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Biography
A resident of Verkhny Tagil (Sverdlovsk region). During the second half of 2023, she was repeatedly fined under various administrative articles due to statements in social networks, including xenophobic ones. In December 2023, a criminal case was opened against Makhnorylova on charges of publicly justifying terrorism. She was given a recognisance not to leave. In March 2024, it became known that she was also charged with offending the feelings of believers and with insulting veterans of the Great Patriotic War. The case file on the court’s website additionally lists the article on incitement to hatred.
On 24 September 2025, the court
A resident of Verkhny Tagil (Sverdlovsk region). During the second half of 2023, she was repeatedly fined under various administrative articles due to statements in social networks, including xenophobic ones. In December 2023, a criminal case was opened against Makhnorylova on charges of publicly justifying terrorism. She was given a recognisance not to leave. In March 2024, it became known that she was also charged with offending the feelings of believers and with insulting veterans of the Great Patriotic War. The case file on the court’s website additionally lists the article on incitement to hatred.
On 24 September 2025, the court sent Makhnorylova for compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital. The statute of limitations had expired on the episodes under the article concerning the offence of religious feelings.