Biography
In July 2018, security forces, accompanied by riot police, using crowbars, broke into the apartment of Valeriya and her husband Sergey with television cameras. The young couple learned that a criminal case was opened against them for their faith. Both were detained, Sergey was sent to a pre-trial detention center for 2 months, and Valeriya, after 2 days in an isolation ward, was placed under house arrest. After the investigation, the return of the case to the prosecutor and court proceedings in October 2020, Sergey and Valeriya were sentenced to 8 and 7 years of probation, respectively, but on February 26, 2021, the Kostroma Regional Court reduced the terms to 3 and 2 years probation.
Valeriya was born in May 1993. When she was only 10 years old, her father died. Since childhood, she studied music, played the violin and studied vocals. As a teenager, she graduated from the courses of a stylist-make-up artist, and after school she studied at the college as a hairdresser. He loves stove, is fond of making interior items from concrete.
Mom raised her daughter on stories from the Bible, and Valeriya loved this wise book. “It helped me grow up to be a decent, responsible and honest person,” she says.
In 2015, Valeriya married Sergey and they settled in Kostroma. The criminal prosecution had a profound effect on the spouses' emotional and physical well-being. Valeriya notes: “For more than two years now we have been living under constant stress and anxiety. And all this is due to the unfair accusation of extremism. "