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Valeriia Shmakova
Biography
A resident of the Moscow Region. In December 2025, she was detained in connection with a case on the justification of terrorism over a comment about the “Freedom of Russia” Legion, the RDK, and the “Siberian Battalion.” Shmakova was taken into custody.
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