The activist Anna Stefanova*, who participated in the demonstrations against the landfill in Shays, was arrested in absentia.
The Lomonosov District Court in Arkhangelsk arrested in absentia the environmental activist Anna Stepanova, who participated in demonstrations against the Shays landfill, the publication 7x7 noted. Horizontal Russia"*.
According to the investigation, on November 9, Stepanova, who immigrated to Germany, was charged in the case of "internet conversations for activities against state security" (Part 2 of Article 280.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
Anna Stepanova is one of the participants in the demonstrations against the establishment of a landfill at Shays station. In 2022, she left Russia, and spoke of pressure from the security forces and wiretapping discovered while working in the studio. In September 2025, the Ministry of Justice added Stepanova to the "foreign agents" registry.
Earlier, in 2022, administrative protocols were already drawn up against the environmental activist as part of the article on the "defamation" of the armed forces of the Russian Federation. One of the protocols was drawn up due to pacifist posts on a personal page on VKontakte, the other - after the publication of a documentary by the German TV channel OstWest, in which Stepanova spoke out against SVO. Then the court fined her 60 thousand rubles. Later, the police made a third "defamation" report.
- Recognized by the Russian authorities as a "foreign agent".