Svetlana Orzhevskaya

Resident of Moscow. Together with her son, publishes information about the war against Ukraine, including news and ways to help Ukraine on a website, social networks and Telegram channel. "VKontakte" at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office twice restricted access to Orzhevskaya's groups, and in February 2024 blocked also personal pages of both without the right to restore. The reason for the protocols were photos of activists with anti-war posters. Igor Orzhevsky said that he and his mother received threats. On 16 May 2024, the Orzhevskys were fined a total of 104 thousand rubles for four protocols on discrediting the army and displaying prohibited symbols (part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code). In November 2024, the Gulagu.net project's Telegram channel published a letter from Orzhevskaya saying that they had arrived in the USA with the aim of obtaining political asylum, but were detained, after which her son was taken to an immigration prison. The same month, a case was filed against Orzhevskaya for knowingly spreading false information about the Russian Armed Forces.