Overview
- Law enforcement searched the Ulyanovsk apartment of Anastasia Chumakova’s mother on Friday as part of a criminal case.
- FSB agents, police, and investigators reviewed personal messages, seized electronic devices, and questioned her as a witness.
- Authorities accuse Chumakova of disseminating “false information” about the Russian military under wartime provisions.
- The outlet said Chumakova lives abroad and has not been registered at her mother’s address for more than a decade.
- Russia labeled Astra a “foreign agent” last October, and a local court fined Chumakova 35,000 rubles in March over registration rules.