Judge Ekaterina Tyamina of the St. Petersburg City Court sentenced 23-year-old Alena Vasilyeva and Olga Bryntseva to two years in a settlement colony. They were convicted in a case involving abuse of a state symbol under Article 329 of the Criminal Code and rehabilitation of Nazism under Part 4 of Article 354.1.
The ruling was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. The more than year the defendants had already spent in pretrial detention was credited at a rate of one day for two. Even so, they were not released after sentencing: the judge clarified that both would remain in custody because of other criminal charges.
The prosecution had asked for a harsher sentence. Prosecutor Viktoria Khristova requested 3 years and 4 months in prison for each of the two women.
According to the investigators, the case stemmed from a video recorded on May 27, 2025, on the embankment of the Monastyrka River. The court heard that the intoxicated women, while using obscene language, filmed a clip in which Alena Vasilyeva urinates on a passport and rubs it against her genitals.
Later the same day, according to the case materials, Vasilyeva approached posters put up for the celebration of May 9 near Ploshchad Aleksandra Nevskogo metro station and bared her buttocks next to them. Olga Bryntseva filmed what happened. The video was later posted to their Telegram channel.
Both defendants admitted guilt. They have been in custody since May 30, 2025. During closing arguments, prosecutor Khristova separately stressed that Bryntseva, in her words, “had practical skills and experience in filming in the ‘trash content’ genre.” She also noted that both women had previously faced administrative liability and that their bank accounts had been blocked.