Daria Kozyreva

A resident of St. Petersburg. On 19 December 2022, she was detained because of an inscription on an installation about friendship between St. Petersburg and a Ukrainian city Mariupol. A report was drawn up on Kozyreva under the administrative article on discrediting the Armed Forces (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences). However, in January 2023, a criminal case on property damage was initiated, considering that her actions caused significant material damage to the owner of the installation, Yarkiy Gorod LLC: more than 250 thousand rubles (US$3039) "according to the costs of dismantling works and restorative repair and subsequent installation of the light composition". Since then, there have been no investigative actions in this case. In addition, on 15 December 2023, Kozyreva was issued a protocol under Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code because of a post on VKontakte, which she published on the day on which articles on military "fakes" (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) and discrediting the Armed Forces (Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) were added to the Criminal Code on 4 March 2022. In the post, Kozyreva spoke about these amendments as well as the imperialist nature of the war.
On 24 February 2024, the second anniversary of the start of the war, Kozyreva was detained because of a poster with a fragment of text from Shevchenko's poem Testament pasted on the monument to Taras Shevchenko. Later it became known that a criminal case on discrediting the Armed Forces was opened against her. On 27 February, she was taken into custody.
In August 2024, it became known that another episode appeared in the case of Kozyreva - in connection with her interview with the YouTube channel Realii (Realities). In December 2024, the court returned the case to the prosecutor's office.
On 7 February 2025, Kozyreva's preventive measure was changed to a ban on certain actions. In March, the court of appeal cancelled the decision to return the case to the prosecutor's office.
On 18 April 2025, Kozyreva was sentenced to two years and eight months in a general regime colony.

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