Name: Tsorn Yelena Yuriyevna
Date of Birth: October 24, 1972
Current status: defendant
Articles of Criminal Code of Russian Federation: 282.2 (2)
Current restrictions: recognizance agreement

Biography

On July 9, 2019, in Vladivostok, armed law enforcement officers in masks conducted a series of searches in the homes of civilians. The victims were 6 families of believers. A few days earlier, six of the victims were surprised to find their names on the list of "extremists" of Rosfinmonitoring. Among them was 47-year-old Elena Tsorn, against whom, as it turned out, a criminal case was initiated.

Elena was born in October 1972 in Vladivostok. She has an older sister. As a child, she was fond of knitting, wrote poetry.

Elena graduated from the Pedagogical Institute in Ussuriysk. She worked at a school for 18 years, then organized a children's development center, in which she was a director and teacher.

In 1994, Elena married Yevgeny, in marriage they had a daughter.

Elena has always been very interested in stories about Jesus Christ, so she was very happy to learn that her neighbor was studying the Bible. Years later, Elena Zorn made a conscious decision to become a Christian.

In her free time, the believer embroiders with beads and ribbons, paints oil paintings, plays the guitar, loves to cook, and is interested in landscape design.

Yelena's family is very worried about her criminal prosecution, which also affected her husband, Yevgeny. Since it all began, he has been summoned for questioning twice and offered a deal with his conscience - cooperation with the investigation or dismissal from his job. Due to nervous stress, family members began to have health problems. Elena's husband and daughter support her during this difficult time.

Case History

In the early morning of July 2018, a group of masked armed security forces invaded the apartment of 90-year-old grandmother Yelena Barmakina, after which Dmitriy wife Yelena was imprisoned in a pre-trial detention center for 447 days. Later, Yelena herself was accused of extremism because of her religion and the family’s bank accounts were blocked. The believer’s case was considered by the Pervorechensky District Court of Vladivostok. In September 2020, the court returned the case to the prosecutor. In August 2021, investigator Tarasenko opened a criminal case against a peaceful believer Yuriy Redozubov and merged Barmakina’s case into one proceeding with the cases against Redozubov, Lonchakov, Katanaeva, Astvatsaturova, Tregub, Tsorn and the Verigin spouses. In June 2022, the case went to court.