The case of Kalinnikova and Potapova in Kurilsk Kalinnikova Olga

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The case of Kalinnikova and Potapova in Kurilsk

Kalinnikova Olga

Updated: December 21, 2023


Name: Kalinnikova Olga Feliksovna

Date of Birth: December 4, 1976

Current status: Defendant

Articles of Criminal Code of Russian Federation: 282.2 (2)

Current restrictions: recognizance agreement


Biography


Olga Kalinnikova, a mother of two children, was prosecuted in November 2023 for her belief in Jehovah God.


Olga was born in December 1976 on Iturup Island, in the city of Kurilsk (Sakhalin Region). She has an elder sister. Their father worked as a driver, and mother worked as a paramedic. The parents are now retired.


As a child, Olga loved to read and draw, for some time she attended an art school and a sambo section. She liked to spend time in the forest and at sea, riding a bicycle and a moped. In her youth, she enjoyed hiking.


After school, Olga graduated from accounting courses, but did not work in her specialty. At the age of 18, she got a job as a janitor-cleaner in a children's art school. She studied remotely at the Moscow Institute of Technology at the Faculty of Civil Engineering; studied at Japanese and English language courses, completed an internship in Japan. Olga also took an art course and a photography course.


In the summer of 1994, Olga moved to Khabarovsk, where she met Jehovah's Witnesses. They showed in the Bible the answers to the questions that had worried her since childhood: what is the meaning of life? Why do people die? Olga recalls: "Simple, logical and understandable to the mind and heart explanations from the Bible, plus love, which is not found anywhere in the world, but the people of God have, convinced me that I had found the truth." In 1995, she embarked on the Christian path.


Since 1998, Olga has been working as a technician at a seismic station. She continues to study languages, loves to read and draw, she likes to be in nature with friends.


Olga is divorced. She has an adult son and a school-age daughter. In connection with the criminal case, the believer worries about her daughter and parents. Relatives are worried about Olga and say: "We understand that Olga and extremism are incompatible concepts." They are outraged by the fact that the authorities are persecuting peaceful believers.


Case history


In November 2023, in the city of Kurilsk and in the village of Reidovo, searches were carried out in the homes of two believing women, one of whom has a minor daughter. A criminal case against them had been opened a month earlier. Olga Kalinnikova and Larisa Potapova were accused of disseminating the teachings of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Sakhalin region, as well as involving local residents in the activities of a banned organization. A written undertaking not to leave was taken from the women.


Criminal case


Region:

Sakhalin Region

Locality:

Kurilsk

Suspected of:

"The active actions of Potapova and Kalinnikova were expressed, among other things, in conducting conversations, teaching religion and religious education of the inhabitants of the Kuril region ... declination... to participate in activities in an extremist organization in the implementation of conspiracy measures"

Court case number:

12302640018000078

Initiated:

October 12, 2023

Current case stage:

Preliminary investigation

Investigating:

Korsakovsky Interdistrict Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Sakhalin Region

Articles of Criminal Code of Russian Federation:

282.2 (2)

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