Moscow Sentences Russian-Israeli Scientist to Prison over Funding Navalny-Connected Foundation
The court said two small transfers to Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation amounted to financing an extremist organization.
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While he was in the Arctic chasing swans, the court declared the foundation extremist, but Rozenfeld could not have known about this. As soon as he got home and was confronted with the news, he immediately stopped the transfer, but to no avail. He was sentenced to 3.5 years for 7,800 forints.
Sophia Rosenfeld spent her entire life studying Arctic birds: she was on an expedition to the North, followed the goose packs on the watermelon and fought for the preservation of rare species. Now one of the leading Russian ornithologists, a doctor of biological sciences, was sentenced to three and a half years in the colony for two FBC donations of a thousand rubles. Rosenfeld partially admitted that she could not cancel regular payments becaus…
‘Pure Kafka’: Israeli scientist jailed in Russia over $25 in Navalny donations
Sofia Rosenfeld, a Russian scientist with Israeli citizenship, was sent to prison in Moscow for contributing in 2021 to the organization of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in prison;. Her father told Ynet Russia may be arresting Israelis as deal leverage
Moscow sentences Russian-Israeli scientist to prison over funding Navalny-connected foundation
Dr. Sofia Rosenfeld argued that she had been out of contact with the outside world while participating in a scientific expedition in the northern Arctic when the transfers were made from her account.
Israeli-Russian Scientist Sentenced To 3.5 Years In Jail For Two 14$ Donations to Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Fund
MOSCOW (VINnews) — A Russian scientist who holds Israeli citizenship has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison for making two small donations to the anti-corruption organization founded by the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Dr. Sofia Rosenfeld, 50, was sentenced last Wednesday by Moscow’s Gagarinsky District Court after being convicted […]
Israeli sentenced to 3.5 years in Russian jail for $30 donation to Navalny group
Sofia Rosenfeld, an Israeli-Russian ornithologist who has lived in Russia for more than 30 years, donated to Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation in 2021, after Moscow banned the organization as 'extremist'
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