In Russia, a dishwasher who worked in the Investigative Committee cadet corps was sentenced to 19 years in prison for recruiting a student
The woman was accused of recruiting a cadet into the "Freedom of Russia" Legion.
A military court in Moscow sentenced 53-year-old Alexandra Zhitenko — a former English teacher who worked as a dishwasher in the Investigative Committee Cadet Corps. The woman was found guilty of recruiting a teenager into the "Freedom of Russia" Legion and terrorism, sentencing her to 19 years in a penal colony and a large fine.
Zhitenko herself insists that all her activity was merely a complex imitation and a "pedagogical method" aimed at protecting the cadet from real contact with extremists.
The story began when Zhitenko, with higher education and knowing several languages, got a job in the kitchen of the cadet corps. Her behavior was unusual. For example, she organized a kind of game for the pupils: she paid them money for quality duty in the canteen, solving USE tests, and performing creative tasks. To pay these "bonuses," the woman got into huge debts with relatives and banks, Mediazona reports.
Among the cadets, the woman singled out a teenager named Alexey, with whom Zhitenko developed a trusting relationship. According to the investigation, she was preparing him for espionage in military units and tried to involve him in a terrorist organization.
However, the defendant herself described a completely different picture. She claimed that she noticed the boy's dangerous interest in the banned legion and decided to lead this process to control it.
The FSB monitored the woman for over a year before her arrest in July 2024. The main evidence in the case was a recording of conversations between Zhitenko and the cadet made by the special service.
The court considered the woman's arguments about a pedagogical experiment unconvincing, despite the apparent absurdity of some episodes of the case.
The 19-year sentence became one of the harshest in similar cases.
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