In Russia, journalist Irina Slavina has been set on fire: her latest Facebook post says it all



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“Blame the Russian Federation for my death,” was his last post on Facebook.

On the eve of that tragic incident, the police searched his home on trumped-up charges. The case was brought against businessman Mikhail Joselevich. He was accused of illegal activities: organizing events of the Open Russia movement (Otkrytaja Rosija).

During the search, the police took electronic devices, personal effects, documents, notebooks with records from Slavina’s apartment.

“He took the notes he had just found, notes from me and his daughter, a computer, phones, not only mine, but also from a man, a stack of notebooks with press conferences. I ran out of tools,” wrote Irina Slavina his Facebook page the day before.

It later emerged that the search of Slavina’s family apartment was the fault of investigators. They confused Novgorod with Lower Novgorod.

In February 2019, Irina Slavina was accused by the authorities of participating in the activities of an organization that was undesirable to them and fined 5,000 rubles.

A year later, unable to tolerate police arbitrariness, Irina set fire to the police building.

Even earlier, in 2017, unknown people cut the tires on his car multiple times. Once, when she returned from a journalists’ seminar in the UK in 2016, unknown people scattered leaflets in the building where her husband works, in which Irina was named an animal (Russian: Scottish) for her article on Russia’s involvement in the war in Syria.

Then he wrote about the Tu-154 plane crash: “Gedi, but I can’t forget the corpses of Syrian children, where Russian artists danced.”

Irina Slavina

Irina Slavina

2019 In March, the Lower Novgorod court fined I. Slavin 20,000 rubles for organizing Boris Nemtsov memorial marches that were not coordinated with the authorities.

In February of that year, they walked down Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street in the center of the city with a portrait of B. Nemtsov. She was accompanied by dozens of people who later laid flowers in memory of the murdered politician in the Plaza del Teatro.

In October 2019, I. Slavina was again fined 70,000 rubles “for disrespecting the authorities and society” after she jokingly offered the city of Shahunja an indecent name on her Facebook. She was outraged by the placement of a plaque in memory of Stalin’s 140th anniversary in this city.

“My MIP (Russian CMI) consists of one person: me. I write to you, I am the operator, I am the defendant in court and liable for taxes. In other words, I am alone everywhere.

Also, the trip to Shahunja is expensive and my CMI budget is very modest, and I will repeat it again: he is alive only because of the victims. I can’t afford these trips. I am inspired by the fact that two attorneys go on this trip who help me selflessly, one from Aurora and the other from Protest Apology.

It is a great honor for me to receive the help of these people. I am sure that sooner or later they will face repressive structures, ”Irina said in a radio interview after the incident.

More recently, in June this year, authorities charged Irina Slavin with spreading false news after her post reported that a director of the Sambo Academy had contacted dozens of people, including visitors to the school, knowing that are infected with COVID-19. Then she was fined 65,000 rubles.

“Until now, I just want to die, because the RF criminal article that applies to me was written only to kill journalists and media that are not economically convenient for them. But the spiritual pain of injustice is so severe that it is difficult and physical” he wrote on Facebook.

Summing up the current situation in Russia, Larisa Perry wrote on Irina’s Facebook: “Make no mistake! This could continue for another century. Until a new leader emerges who can awaken the people who grew up under the regime.

However, Mr. Navalno is not enough. It depends on the people in which country they live. Our people do not know how to think analytically, they only accept survival and do not think about the future of children. It is scary when there is no road ahead that leads to a sanctuary for a better life. “

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