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65-year-old jeweller Alexander Dotsenko from Gatchina was hospitalised after suffering a heart attack. His lawyer, Sergey Podolsky, reported this on his Telegram channel on 14 February.
The lawyer said that he received a call from an unknown number, asking him to tell Dotsenko’s daughter: “He’s had a heart attack, he’s in intensive care.”
According to Podolsky, Federal Penitentiary Service staff had concealed from the convicted man’s family what had happened to him since 12 February. Before being hospitalised, he was in correctional colony-settlement No. 8 in St Petersburg.
After the heart attack, Dotsenko was in critical condition and was placed in a medically induced coma. On 14 February, his daughter visited the hospital where he had been taken. In the following days, Dotsenko’s support group reported that there was no change in his condition.
On 17 February, his level of sedation was reduced. The support group said Dotsenko was “slowly regaining consciousness,” but that his heart condition was worsening. The next day, Dotsenko’s condition deteriorated and he was again placed in a medically induced coma.
17:23 The support group reported that Alexander Dotsenko died in hospital at 16:00 today.
- In July 2024, the jeweller was sentenced to three years in a correctional colony-settlement. His wife, artist Anastasia Dyudyaeva, was convicted in the same case and given three and a half years in a colony-settlement. They were found guilty of incitement to terrorism (part 1, article 205.2 of the Russian Criminal Code). According to the investigation, the couple had left leaflets in Ukrainian in a Lenta supermarket. Among them was an inscription reading “putinyaku na gilyaku”.
- Dotsenko and Dyudyaeva were detained in January 2024. They had both been in custody since.