Elena Nikolaevna Ananich

Number of repressed:

34

Involved in the issuance of politically motivated court decisions, at least 36 decisions awarding at least 35 days of administrative arrest, fines of at least 1,620 rubles and at least 4 years of restriction or imprisonment. On April 28, 2023, she sentenced former GUBOPiK officer Stanislav Luponosov to 18 years in prison in absentia. Judge Elena Ananich also imposed a fine on him in the amount of 1,300 basic units (48,100 rubles). Stanislav was accused under three articles of the Criminal Code: Part 1 of Art. 356 (Treason), Art. 352 (Illegal acquisition of computer information), Part 3 of Art. 426 (Excess of power or official authority). On February 2, 2023, she sentenced lawyer Vitaly Braginets to eight years in a colony under high security conditions. He was accused under four articles of the Criminal Code: Part 3 of Art. 130 (inciting other social hostility or discord), part 3 of Art. 361 (calls for sanctions), part 1 of Art. 361-1 (creation of an extremist formation or participation in it) and Part 1 of Art. 342 (active participation in actions that grossly violate public order). Rejects complaints about the cancellation of indictments under Article 23.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, despite the presence of witnesses that the administrative decisions of the trial court contain false facts. Previously, as a judge of the Pervomaisky District Court, she also made decisions against civilians: she tried Andrei Klimov, accused of slander and insulting the former president; against Leonid Mazhalsky for protesting against the construction of a house for special forces in Uruchya; rejected Vladimir Morozov's complaint against the refusal to initiate a criminal case for the fact that disproportionate physical force was used against the man by police officers. She was on the list of judges proposed for restrictions on entry into the European Union for ruling on the arrests of democratic activists during the 2006 election campaign.