Name: Sachneva Ulita Mikhailovna
Date of Birth: August 30, 1954
Current status: defendant
Articles of Criminal Code of Russian Federation: 282.2 (2)
Current restrictions: obligation to appear

Biography

In May 2023, the house of Ulita Sachneva and her husband Sergey was searched, which caused the elderly couple to experience stress. Because of their beliefs, they became defendants in a criminal case on extremism.

Ulita was born in August 1954 in the Khabarovsk Territory. She has two younger brothers. She got a secondary technical education, then worked as an elevator operator and painter at a construction site, then retired. In her free time, she loved to read books, and now her main hobby is taking care of the garden.

In 1977, at work, Ulita met her future husband Sergey. He worked as a driver and loved fishing. Together they raised two sons.

At different periods of her life, Ulita lived in Khabarovsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur and the village of Khurba (Khabarovsk Territory), where the couple moved to take care of her mother.

In 1999, convinced that Bible prophecies were being fulfilled, Ulita embarked on the Christian path.

The Sachnevs' children empathize with their parents who have been prosecuted for their faith.

Case History

In May 2023, civilians in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, as well as the village of Khurba and the village of Molodezhny, were subjected to night searches because of their religion. The investigation opened a criminal case against 8 believers—Vasiliy Bondarev and his mother Irina, Sergey Sachnev and his wife Ulita, Nikolay Kovadnev, Ivan Nikitin, Mikhail Dorofeev, Radion Shitov, Marina Voitko and Svetlana Zharkova. They were charged with involvement in the activities of a banned organization. In 2024, the prosecutor’s office returned the case to the investigator twice. In October the case went to court.
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