A 60-year-old woman who was placed under house arrest by Russian authorities last year after leaving an “offensive” note on the grave of President Vladimir Putin’s parents learned of her sentence on Thursday after receiving a suspended sentence, Reuters reported.
A court in St. Petersburg sentenced Iryna Shibaneva to two and a half years of suspended imprisonment, she was found guilty of desecrating the grave of the Russian president’s parents. The Russian prosecutor’s office asked to sentence him to 3 years of probation.
The woman, a local resident of St. Petersburg, was accused of being at the grave of Putin’s parents on October 6 and leaving a message:
“Parents of a maniac, take him, he has caused so much pain and trouble, everyone is praying for his death. Death to Putin, you raised a bastard and a criminal.”
The security guard reported the ticket and contacted the authorities. Police identified Shibaneva shortly after the incident was reported, based on images taken by several surveillance cameras at the cemetery.
How the Russian woman justified her gesture
The woman did not try to deny the act, but the police conducted a DNA examination, which confirmed the presence of traces of her skin on the paper, and a graphological examination proved that the note was written by a Russian woman.
The linguistic expert also concluded that the note contains “a negative assessment of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin.”
She has been under house arrest since October 14 last year.
In court, Tsybaneva reported that she made such a gesture because she had just watched a television program about the war in Ukraine and realized “that everything is very scary, everything is very sad, that a lot of people have died.”
Also on Thursday, another Russian court sentenced Nikita Tuskanov, a former teacher who wrote on social media that the explosion on the Kerch bridge last October was “Putler’s birthday present” and expressed other negative assessments of the Russian president.
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Source: Hot News
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