The director of the orphanage refused to let the adopted son of Ulan-Ude activist Natalia Filonova go to trial with her mother, People of Baikal report . Human rights activist Nadezhda Nizovkina published a recording of a conversation between a 16-year-old teenager and the director.
“Your Nizovkina does not catch up with the fact that you are the core. Why the hell does she tell you all this and brings you to a stressful situation. You are being used in black. Before taking any action, she must understand that she will harm you first of all, and not herself. She thought that she had a disabled child and they wouldn’t put her in prison, but why the hell would they not? says a male voice on the recording.
Vladimir Alalykin, Filonova's son, says he wants to see his mother and understand how long she faces. To this he is answered that Filonova "understands what kind of state we live in." “Those who believed that they were living in the state wrong, they left Russia. If you piss against the wind, you will be hurt in the opposite direction, ”says the man.
“If my mother is sitting there, I need to see her. I have not slept for many nights, I want to go home. She simply spoke out against the war, and because of this she was closed, ”the teenager replies.
“Why do you need to climb there, you are a child, this is not your showdown. Because of the pen, pencil, cigarette – that's your level. Don’t go where you can’t take it out, ”the director tells him.
Nizovkina explained that Oleg Tsyrempilov, director of the Zvezdny center, was talking to the boy on the recording. He told the "People of Baikal" that the boy did not ask for time off to court and there was no such conversation. When asked if his voice was on audio, he asked to call back “in two hours somewhere”, then asked to send him the recording, and later stopped answering calls.
Natalya Filonova was detained in the fall of 2022 for protests against mobilization. The security forces claim that after the arrest, she hit one policeman in court with her hand, and poked another in the face with a pen. Later in the case, evidence appeared that one policeman had a broken finger. Filonova could face up to 10 years in prison.