The adopted son of an anti-war activist from Buryatia was taken to an orphanage

The authorities of Buryatia sent the adopted son of local resident Natalya Filonova to an orphanage. Filonova herself is in a pre-trial detention center on a criminal case of assault on a policeman. She was detained at an anti-war rally last September. The pensioner is blamed for allegedly beating the policemen. She herself claims that the police received accidental scratches when they used force on her during the arrest.

60-year-old Natalya Filonova is raising a 15-year-old orphan Vova Alalykina. The boy is under her care, he has a disability. After Filonova’s detention in September, he lived with her relatives, but in December, guardianship authorities seized the teenager and sent him to a city hospital. As human rights activist Natalya Nyzovskaya reported to the “7×7” publication, on March 5, the child was transferred to the Barguzinsky Children’s Home.

Natalya Filonova has been an active citizen for many years. Journalists say that earlier she spoke in support of education, then defended political prisoners, supported the opposition and opposed the annexation of Crimea to Russia. After the start of hostilities in Ukraine, she expressed her disagreement by trying to remove the symbol of the armed conflict – the letter Z – from a city bus. For this, she was fined 35,000 rubles under the article on discrediting the Russian army.

In the criminal case filed against Filonova, it is indicated that during the arrest she inflicted several scratches on the police, in particular, a scratch on her face with a fountain pen in her hands. Filonova says that the fountain pen was in her hands, and the police major was accidentally injured by it. Later in the case, there was evidence that one policeman had a broken finger. A pensioner can face up to 10 years in prison.

According to “7×7”, the orphanage said that the child could be handed over to Filonova’s relatives. For this, relatives need to contact the guardianship authorities, which will make a decision. They asked about this to the instance where Vova used to be, but they were ignored.

• In recent weeks, law enforcement agencies of Russia have several times repressed parents whose children expressed an anti-war stance. The most famous case occurred in the Tula region. Aleksey Moskalyov, a single father, was sent under house arrest there. His daughter drew an anti-war picture at school. The girl was placed in a shelter. Now the guardianship authorities demand to limit Moskalyov’s parental rights.
• On March 1, a resident of Barnaul was charged with improper performance of parental duties. Her underage daughter brought flowers and a toy to the spontaneous memorial in memory of the civilians of Ukraine who died in the bombings.