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Elena Popova
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Resident of St. Petersburg, founder of the Conscious Refusers Movement. In July 2025 she left the project. On 5 August 2025, she was searched and detained in a case of spreading deliberately false information about the Russian Armed Forces because of a stream for the movement's birthday, which she posted on her VKontakte page.
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