Stetsura, Tatyana Sergeevna

She was born on November 2, 1984 in the village of Nizhnegorsky of the Crimean region in the family of a military man. Around 1995, she moved to Ulan-Ude (Republic of Buryatia, Russian Federation). In 2007 she graduated with honors from the Law Faculty of East Siberian State Technological University. She worked as a teacher of legal disciplines. She studied the topic of the legal status of human rights non-profit organizations ^[1] . Prior to her arrest in a criminal case, she was an advocate of the Bar Association of the Republic of Buryatia. ^[2] He works as a lawyer in the Ulan-Ude legal agency Zashchita, and provides legal assistance to the population ^[3] .

Political views, membership in political organizations, protests

Since 2007, has been a member of the Ulan-Ude branch of the unregistered Democratic Union Party. In 2008, she acted as one of the founders of the local branch of the Solidarity movement , in 2010 she was elected as co-chair of the Buryat regional branch of the Solidarity movement and joined the organizing committee of Strategy 31 in Buryatia. ^{[4] [5]}

In 2009, she was a member of the organizing committee of an anti-fascist rally against the murder in Moscow of a native of Buryatia, Bair Sambuev ^{[6] [7]} . She took part in the organization of meetings, gatherings and round tables in Ulan-Ude, Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky, Chita and others, as well as in Moscow. She was repeatedly detained. In 2010, she became one of the founders of the Ulan-Ude organization “Coalition for Free Elections”, which fought to maintain direct municipal elections ^{[8] [9]} .

She opposed art. 280, 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, 2007 - 2012 repeatedly advocated the release of Boris Stomakhin , as a political prisoner under these articles. At the same time, B. Stomakhin criticized the activities of Stetsura and Nizovkina for “magnanimous Narodism” ^[10] and “the salvation of closed Buryat schools and Crimean floaters in 2011-13 along Nizovkina and Stetsura.” ^[eleven]

Criminal prosecution, arrest, deprivation of legal status

In 2009, upon publication of two copyright articles and a leaflet of the DC of Ulan-Ude in the socio-political publication “Free Word”, a criminal case was opened under article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation against Tatyana Stetsura and Nadezhda Nizovkina . They were accused of inciting hostility and hatred of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB, the armed forces and the FSIN. December 31, 2010 , before the rally "Strategy-31", they were taken into custody.

The defendants refused lawyers and defended themselves on their own. Largely for this reason, while in jail, Stetsura was deprived of her legal status by a meeting of the Bar. At the same time, according to the official version, she was deprived of the status of a lawyer for the lack of deductions to the Chamber of Advocates ^{[12] [13]} .

After the arrest, the media reported that the defendants unexpectedly admitted their guilt to everyone, with reference to their colleague on Solidarity brokers. In particular, the Baikal Daily news agency cited the following statement by Sergei Dambaev: “Previously, they always said that they did not recognize and did not consider their actions a criminal offense, and also stated that they did not intend to cooperate with the investigation. But today they stated that they recognize the charge. " ^[14] However, according to other sources, the defendants did not cooperate with the investigation. According to the general line of defense, both defendants from the very beginning expressed a self-incriminating position, fundamentally recognized the fact of the commission of the alleged acts and declared Art. 282 of the Criminal Code is illegitimate, seeking the abolition of all anti-extremist articles of the Criminal Code. In particular, Stetsura in the last word demanded the abolition of censorship restrictions on freedom of speech and, while it existed, demanded the most severe punishment. ^[15]

... I believe that our example is exceptional in terms of pleading guilty, self-incriminating position and the absence of any motivation to mitigate punishment ... Of course, I do not believe that in such circumstances it would be fair to pass, for example, an acquittal. I consider it not logical, impractical from all points of view. ( 2011 ) ^[16]

In their defense, as political prisoners, a campaign was conducted at the regional and federal levels, many politicians and journalists, including Alexander Podrabinek ^[17] , Valeria Novodvorskaya ^[18] , Viktor Shenderovich ^[19], and others, advocated their release. In January 2011, Stetsura and Nizovkina were convicted, which was soon overturned by the Supreme Court of Buryatia.

The sentencing judge, Irina Lewandowska, was subsequently stripped of her judicial status for violating professional ethics ^{[20] [21]} , with the defenders Stetsura and Nizovkina and themselves ^{[22] [23] [24] [25]} responsible for their removal. The resignation of Judge Lewandowska was regarded by a number of media as an important landmark event - for the first time the Internet proved to be the “fifth power”, removing a representative of the judicial system from power ^[26] . The trial in the criminal case against Stetsura and Nizovkina remained incomplete, the final verdict was never passed. ^[27]

On June 4, 2014 in Buryatia, the criminal case against Nizovkina and Stetsura, initiated in 2009 , was resumed. On the same day, Stetsura filed a motion to consider the case in her absence, citing the fact that she considers herself a secondary person in the process, and regards the resumption of the criminal case as repression against Nizovkina ^[28] . In July of that year, the case was returned to the prosecutor.

In addition to the so-called “Buryat case”, information appeared in the media about an attempt to initiate a new criminal prosecution against Stetsura. On July 16, 2013, Nezavisimaya Gazeta published Stetsura’s name on the list of people who should be arrested in August this year after participating in the Manezhnaya Delo (a new episode of Bolotnaya Delo), but no further action was taken by Moscow law enforcement agencies followed by. ^{[29] [30]} .

Political Activities in Moscow, Criticism of Lawyers and PMCs, the Anti-Vital Committee

On December 6, 2011, while trying to fly to Moscow, Stetsura and Nizovkina were detained at the airport of Irkutsk and transported to Ulan-Ude to participate in the administrative offense (violation of election law). Law enforcement agencies of Buryatia, the Trans-Baikal Territory and the Irkutsk Region took part in the detention operation. On December 8, Stetsura and Nizovkina flew to Moscow to attend a seminar of lawyers and lawyers at the Russian Research Center for Human Rights, which coincided with the start of protest events in the capital ^{[31] [32]} ..

In December 2011, Stetsura participated in the work of the “Civil Movement” (opposition organizing committee), later joined a non-partisan group of unsystematic opposition members who organized an organized hunger strike during their arrests, refused to present themselves, present passports and sign any protocols, without fundamentally referring to the article 51 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. As during the criminal prosecution under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code, Stetsura pursued a consistent tactic of refusing the assistance of lawyers and members of the PMC (Public Monitoring Commission), independently carried out its legal defense ^{[33] [34] [35]} .

In February 2012, for participation in an unauthorized protest in Moscow, she was detained by the police and placed under administrative arrest for 10 days, she went on a hunger strike in protest, and after 7 days she was hospitalized ^{[36] [37]} . On February 26, 2012, Stetsura’s defense was carried out by an unauthorized protest near the walls of the special detention center where she was detained, pyrotechnics were used during the rally, one police officer was hit by a pyrotechnic charge ^[38] .

Representation of the collective interests of the population in the regions (Trans-Baikal Territory, Krasnodar Territory)

In June 2011, human rights defenders Tatyana Stetsura, Nadezhda Nizovkina and the district deputy, editor of the newspaper “Against all” Natalya Filonova organized several rural gatherings in the areas of Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky (Trans-Baikal Territory). Acting as representatives of the population, they sought to maintain three ungraded schools, which were liquidated by the decision of the city administration. Stetsura, like Nizovkina , was a lawyer from the population and the actual organizer of the round-the-clock rally at the Petrovsk City Hall and carried out legal protection of the interests of residents. On June 12, 2011, she was detained during a “sit-in” and sentenced to administrative arrest at 5 days. Stetsura, Nizovkina and Filonova, being under arrest, went on a hunger strike, protesting against depriving the residents of Petrovsk of legal aid, then were transferred to the city of Chita.

Frantlayn, an Irish human rights organization, expressed concern over the health status of Stetsura, Nizovkina, and Filonova, saying that the protest was a form of peaceful and legitimate human rights work aimed at protecting the child’s right to education. Human rights activists noted that in the situation in which the residents of the Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky district of the Chita region found themselves, children from the most vulnerable group, low-income families, will be the first to suffer. ^[39]

In July 2012, as a lawyer, she was in a volunteer relief camp for flood victims in Krymsk , and participated in a public investigation into the actions of authorities during a natural disaster. In August I left for the village. Novomikhailovsky near Tuapse in connection with the new flood. Until March 12, 2013, she led court cases of injured residents of the Kuban, while in Krymsk on an independent basis as a human rights defender, returned to Buryatia on March 18, 2013 . It investigates violations of the rights of residents to a fair trial, monitors regional legislation on floaters for violations of human rights for further appeal to the ECHR ^{[40] [41]} .

What perverted head did the idea of ​​evaluating the cost of the dead in relation to their living quarters come to? Or does the cost of a million saved include the remaining housing from relatives of the drowned man? ( 2012 ) ^[42]

• official page of Stetsura’s correspondent on “Front TV”
• T. Stetsura's blog on the Facet website
• Page of T. Stetsura's articles in the "Free Word"
• Publications on the activities of the DC of Ulan-Ude
• The text of the indictment in the criminal case against T. Stetsura
• On the last word of T. Stetsura and N. Nizovkina in court
• The text of the decision on the abolition of the verdict against T. Stetsura
• Publications about the criminal case against T. Stetsura and N. Nizovkina
• Official page in the social network " VKontakte "
• Certificate of the winner of the international scientific-practical conference on jurisprudence (Moscow State Law Academy, 2008)