Alena Totskaya
Date of birth: 20 August 1962
Date of detention: 23 January 2023
Charges indicted:
Art. 361-2 of the Criminal Code — Financing the activities of an extremist group
Prison: Pre-trial detention center No. 8
Alena Totskaya has been detained under Article 361-2 of the Criminal Code. She is accused of financing extremist activities. The detention was part of a larger prosecution effort by the authorities against individuals supporting political prisoners and their families through the social project INeedHelpBy, which provides food aid.
Alena Totskaya was a civil servant but became an activist and volunteer in 2020.