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A film about a Russian oppositionist, shortlisted for the Oscars, was shown in San Francisco

On January 8, the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in San Francisco premiered three documentaries included in shortlist Oscar film awards. One of them was dedicated to the story of three disabled children from the poorest families of Pakistan who ended up in a training program for the Special Olympics. The second concerned the realities of the American prison Angola, built on the site of former plantations, the majority of whose prisoners to this day are black. The third film, “Anastasia,” was dedicated to the opposition activist from Russia Anastasia Shevchenko.

Photo: Ksenia Kirillova

In 2019, Anastasia became the first person in Russia to be prosecuted for participation in the activities of an “undesirable” organization, Open Russia. Mikhail Khodorkovsky. According to the investigation, the woman was engaged in activities that threatened the national security of Russia. As the activist herself explained at a meeting with American viewers, in order to receive such a “title”, it was enough just to participate in debates with government officials, a seminar on a political topic, and a protest rally.

In January 2019, the mother of three was placed under house arrest without the right to use the Internet, write or communicate with anyone. The woman did not even have the opportunity to take her youngest son Mikhail to school, who at the time of Anastasia's arrest was only 7 years old. At that time, her eldest daughter Alina, a disabled person of the first group, was in the hospital. In the first week after her mother's arrest, the girl's condition deteriorated sharply. Anastasia's lawyers tried to prove that the child needed the presence of the mother, but the court remained adamant. The girl died alone. Anastasia Shevchenko was admitted to the hospital at the very last moment, when Alina had already died.

«It is useless for Russian judges and law enforcement officers to say something - they simply do not hear you”, the activist recalls.

In February 2021, the court of Rostov-on-Don sentenced Anastasia to 4 years in prison conditionally. In August the verdict softened up to three years. Having been released for the first time after a long arrest, Anastasia and her children went to Anapa to scatter the ashes of her dead daughter over the Black Sea, where she had taken Alina many years ago. It was this trip that the picture of the American director was dedicated to. Sarah McCarthy. According to Sarah herself, the film was made even before the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, but it is still relevant today, when thousands of Ukrainian children are killed by the same Putin regime, like Alina.

«My grandmother was once forced to flee Ukraine due to Stalinist repressions.," says Sarah.

Sarah McCarthy and Anastasia Shevchenko (left to right). Photo: Ksenia Kirillova

The fate of Anastasia Shevchenko herself also turned out to be closely connected with Ukraine. It was there that her cousin lived with her little daughter. At the age of 2 years, the baby fell ill with cancer. The girl was sent to Israel for treatment, and she returned to her native Kharkov on February 23 last year - literally on the eve of the war. From the very first days of the Russian invasion, the city was intensively bombed, while the girl needed expensive treatment, which could not be provided under war conditions. It was Sarah McCarthy who helped take the family out of Ukraine and organize therapy for Anastasia's little niece.

Anastasia Shevchenko herself left Russia after the Russian invasion, in August 2022. On December 19, a court in Rostov-on-Don replaced the woman's conditional sentence with three years of actual imprisonment. In Russia, Anastasia was put on the federal wanted list. At the moment, the activist lives in Lithuania with her family.

«I hope that after watching this film, people will understand that in Russia today there are people who are fighting this inhuman regime, and sometimes they have to pay an exorbitant price for this struggle.”, Anastasia shares.

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