Case of Kopatskaya in Birobidzan

Ivan Nenko, an investigator of the Investigative Department for the city of Birobidzhan of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Khabarovsk Territory and the Jewish Autonomous Region, opens a criminal case

against unidentified persons under Part 1.1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (involvement of other persons in the activities of an extremist organization). A year later, it was merged with the case of Krushevsky and Artamonov.

In the village of Amurzet, the Kopatsky family is undergoing a five-hour search. FSB officers seize laptops, phones, tablets, flash cards, DVDs, notebooks and Bibles.

The investigator interrogates Yelena Kopatskaya, her husband and eldest son as witnesses.

FSB investigator Captain of Justice Dmitry Yankin opens a criminal case against Yelena Kopatskaya for participating in religious meetings, expressed in joint discussion of the Bible, singing songs and praying.

Elena Kopatskaya's accounts were blocked, she was included in the list of extremists of Rosfinmonitoring.

Investigator Dmitry Yankin takes Elena Kopatskaya on her recognizance agreement.

The case against Yelena Kopathskaya goes to the Leninskiy District Court in Birobidzhan (Amurzet).

Judge — Svetlana Anzhiyevskaya.

Prosecutor Yevgeniy Gavrilenko reads out the charges. Yelena Kopatskaya expresses her position. "Constitutional guarantees mean that the state provides me with the right and, accordingly, undertakes not to prosecute me for exercising it and allows me to decide for myself which religion to belong to, what to believe, and which religious practices to follow," says the believer.