The press service of the Meshchansky District Court told RBC that Svetlana Valeryevna Timofeeva was arrested in absentia for 2 months from the date of her transfer to law enforcement agencies. It goes through paragraph “a” of Part 2 of Art. 283.1 of the Criminal Code (illegal acquisition by a group of persons of information constituting state secrets through theft, deception, blackmail, coercion, threat of violence or other illegal means). The article provides for punishment in the form of imprisonment for a term of up to eight years.
Her date of birth – March 18, 1981 – coincides with the date of birth of photographer-blogger Svetlana Timofeeva, who was detained this week in Albania.
On August 21, the Albanian Ministry of Defense reported that it had detained two Russian citizens and one Ukrainian citizen near a military plant in Gramsci. A Russian citizen entered the facility and tried to take photographs. During his arrest, he sprayed tear gas in the faces of two servicemen. He was accompanied by a man and a woman, who were also detained soon after. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said that the detainees were suspected of espionage.
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