{
  "id": 14320476,
  "title": "Who is Sofya Rozenfeld, the internationally renowned Russian ornithologist sentenced to three and a half years for donating to Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/who-is-sofya-rozenfeld-the-internationally-renowned-russian",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-13T23:26:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Meduza (English)",
    "slug": "meduza-english",
    "url": "https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/10/14/who-is-sofya-rozenfeld-the-internationally-renowned-russian-ornithologist-sentenced-to-three-and-a-half-years-for-donating-to-alexey-navalny-s-anti-corruption-foundation"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Sofya Rozenfeld, a leading Russian ornithologist, has been sentenced to three and a half years in a penal colony for donating 1,000 rubles each to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) in 2021. The scientist, who specializes in Arctic birds and has conducted numerous expeditions to Russia's Far North, was charged with financing an \"extremist\" organization. Rozenfeld admitted guilt, stating that her sole motivation for supporting FBK was to fight corruption. However, she denied sharing extremist views and claimed that her criminal intent was absent. Despite submitting evidence proving she was on a research trip at the time of the donation, the court still upheld the sentence. Friends of Rozenfeld claim that the court was unhappy with her partial admission of guilt and that she was treated unfairly due to her profession and circumstances.",
  "summary": "Sofya Rozenfeld has spent her life studying Arctic birds: traveling to Russia’s Far North on expeditions, following flocks of geese in a seaplane, and fighting to protect rare species. Now the scientist, one of Russia’s leading ornithologists with a doctorate in biological sciences, has been sentenced to three and a half years in a penal colony for two donations of 1,000 rubles each to the…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}