# Russian woman who lived in Ukraine for over a decade faces treason charges after returning to Moscow to replace passport

https://mins.news/en/item/30895

- Meduza, 2026-08-24 19:01 UTC
- World
- Original: https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/24/russian-woman-who-lived-in-ukraine-for-more-than-a-decade-faces-treason-charges-after-returning-to-moscow-to-replace-her-passport

> Russian authorities have apparently opened a criminal treason case against Svetlana Golovatenko after she returned to Moscow to replace her expired internal passport and re-register her home in Donetsk. She had lived in Kyiv for more than 10 years and was detained at Vnukovo Airport, then repeatedly sentenced to 15 days for alleged petty hooliganism before the treason case emerged.