The woman had to leave Russia, following her daughter, who left Russia 3 years ago on an anti-war case.
In Arkhangelsk, Irina K., a 60-year-old lunch lady, along with her colleagues, denounced her colleague Svetlana Danyo. Now the security forces are checking her under the administrative article on “discrediting” the army.
As ASTRA found out, Irina filed a police report after a conversation that took place back in December last year. Then the staff of the hospital named after Semashko was informed that the institution would accept military personnel for treatment. Svetlana said that in this case she would not be able to work there, and called them murderers.
“We were waiting for the delivery of breakfast. We were confronted with the fact that we would be receiving “SMO” fighters for treatment. I was shocked and she said it was terrible. How are we going to work with the killers? I called them murderers. I was told that I was wrong and that they were defenders of the motherland. I say, “No one attacked us.” It was said emotionally. In general, I tried not to talk about politics at work. Irina Vladimirovna and other people were sitting there, and they all wrote a denunciation against me. I don’t blame them. If they hadn’t done that, they would have been in trouble,” Svetlana told ASTRA.
According to her, after that she was called to the director and forced to sign a letter of resignation. The woman collected all her savings, took the cats and flew away from Russia.
“I’m in Armenia now. I knew that I would not stay in Russia. I have never voted for Putin and I do not approve of the current policy of the state,” she said in a conversation with ASTRA.
Svetlana’s daughter left Russia back in 2022, after a criminal case of “vandalism” for the inscription “Peace to Ukraine” on the facade of the building. The girl studied in St. Petersburg in her last year of university as a biology teacher. She’s in Germany now. In Russia, she was put on the wanted list.
“We are a friendly family of dissenters,” Svetlana laughs.
At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, a woman went to work wearing a white cap with the inscription “No war.”
“I spent 2 days in it. In the evening, someone attacked me, pulled a hat over my head, threw me into a snowdrift and kicked me. They called me a ” b*еch.” Then all these crazy laws came out, and the only thing I allowed myself was to write letters to political prisoners, transfer money to them, hang green ribbons when it was dark and there were no cameras, and talk to people, trying to convince them. I was preparing to leave, but I didn’t think I would have to leave so urgently,” she says.
Svetlana asked not to mention the name of the scammer in the text, but she is known to the editorial staff of ASTRA.
When the woman arrived in Armenia, there was no heating in her apartment, and the neighbors brought her blankets and heaters.
“So, someone writes a report on a colleague with whom he has worked for a long time, and someone brings blankets to a stranger,” Svetlana concluded.
