Biography
Dennis Christensen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1972 to a family that professes the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses. He has a younger sister, Maybritt, with whom Dennis has maintained close friendships since childhood. In 1989, Dennis made a conscious decision to be baptized and become one of Jehovah's Witnesses.
In 1991 he graduated from carpentry courses, in 1993 he received a diploma in construction technician at the Higher School of Craftsmen in Haslev (Denmark). From the age of 19, Dennis lived separately from his parents and provided for himself.
In 1995, Dennis came to St. Petersburg to volunteer in the construction of Jehovah's Witnesses buildings in Solnechnoye. He fell in love with Russia, and in 1999 he moved to Murmansk. There he met his future wife, Irina, who by then had become a Jehovah's Witness relatively recently. They got married in 2002, and in 2006 decided to move south to Oryol.
Here Dennis worked as an individual entrepreneur, offering his services as a builder, a master of interior decoration. Having no children of his own, Dennis was enthusiastically engaged in the improvement of the playground in the courtyard of his house on the street. Dennis and Irina Christensen have good relations with their neighbors.
On February 6, 2019, the Zheleznodorozhny District Court found Christensen guilty of extremism. He was sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony located in Lgov (Kursk region). On May 23, 2019, the Court of Appeal upheld this verdict.