Biography
Aleksandr Putintsev, a peaceful believer from Chita, was among the defendants in a criminal case after a large-scale raid on Jehovah's Witnesses in 2020, which involved more than 30 investigative teams.
Aleksandr was born in 1974 in the village of Verkhnyaya Khila in Transbaikalia and was the only child in the family. Since childhood, he loved to read and was fond of photography. Aleksandr received a secondary technical education and went into business, later working with his wife.
Acquaintance with the Bible in the late 1990s turned Alexander's life upside down. The principles in this book helped save a family that was falling apart at the time. At that time, Aleksandr abused alcohol, was cocky and tough. But everything changed when he began to apply the advice recorded in the Bible in his life. His wife, Galina, with whom he married in 1994, decided to follow the Christian path, like her husband.
The Putintsevs have a son. The family loves to relax in nature. Galina cooks well.
The criminal prosecution did not go painlessly for the family - both Aleksandr and Galina suffered emotionally. “For a long time, we couldn’t start putting the house in order and put back the things scattered by law enforcement officers during the raid,” they said after the search. “There is an internal anxiety: you expect that they will again break through the door, break into the apartment, put them face down on the floor and handcuff them behind.”
Relatives and friends consider the sentence illogical and unfair.