A resident of Moscow became involved in a criminal case on “calls for terrorism” and was able to escape from the Russian Federation before her arrest.
52-year-old Daria Anashkina (pictured) worked in Moscow as an import manager with American brands before the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. According to the ASTRA woman, until the fall of 2022, she wore a yellow-blue manicure and walked around the city with the flag of Ukraine.
“I’m not a media person, but I’m quite active. I’ve been going to rallies since 2014, and since 2019 I’ve been a volunteer at Memorial,” says Daria.
She suggests that her colleagues, some of whom used to be security forces, could have informed on her. They also printed out Daria’s Facebook posts, where she spoke from a pro-Ukrainian position about a full-scale invasion, and threatened to take the folder with the printout to the FSB if Daria did not resign. The woman eventually left the company at the end of 2022.
“In November 2024, people started banging on my door, as they should, in armor and hard hats. What saved me was that they didn’t have a grinder,” Daria told ASTRA.
The woman managed to escape from the house. After that, she contacted OVD-Info and left Russia with the help of the Vyvozhuk project. According to Daria, in 2025, the security forces searched her apartment again.
“I’ve never violated any laws, even at rallies or anywhere else. I’ve never been detained, I haven’t even had any administrative cases,” the woman shared.
In November 2025, Daria was added to the list of “extremists and terrorists.” She was included in the list along with Viktor Shenderovich and Evgeny Chichvarkin. Later, the woman learned that a criminal case had been opened against her under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Public calls for terrorist activities, public justification of terrorism or propaganda of terrorism). Daria does not know what exactly served as the basis for the initiation of the case. In the winter of 2025, a woman was arrested in absentia and put on the wanted list in this criminal case.
“Friends help to keep together, just nice people around and the sun. And now that I’ve learned about my status, I think that no matter how difficult it is, the main thing is that I’m not in prison, but in a free country!”, said Daria to ASTRA.
