The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow sent Svetlana Kudryashova to pre-trial detention in a criminal case for 'repeated demonstration of prohibited symbols', as noted in the court card by 'Caution, news'.
Previously, Kudryashova had already been sentenced to administrative arrest and actual imprisonment on the same grounds. The reason for the prosecution was a tattoo on her right shoulder with the symbol of the Ukrainian Azov Regiment.
In August 2022, the Kimry City Court arrested Kudryashova for ten days under a protocol for demonstrating prohibited symbols on a bus, she was also charged with a tattoo of the Ukrainian coat of arms on her back and the inscription Glory to Ukraine, writes 'Mediazona'**.
The Tver resident did not plead guilty, explaining that the tattoo with the Azov emblem was done by a man named Ilya, with whom she was in a relationship and who was a member of the Ukrainian unit. She also clarified that the tattoo in question was made back in 2018, and until 2022 'no one paid attention' to it.
In the summer of 2023, a criminal case was initiated against Kudryashova for repeated demonstration of prohibited symbols due to the same Azov tattoo, after a blogger filmed her on a train carriage. The woman was sentenced to seven months in a colony, during the hearing she claimed pressure from the Moscow FSB officers in Tver pre-trial detention center-1. The sentence credited her with seven months served under the measure of restraint.
What the woman is currently charged with is unclear.
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