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   Darya Trepova: What we know about accused in Russian blogger Vladlen   
   Tatarsky's killing   
   By Robert Greenall, April 3, 2023, BBC News   
   The detention of Darya Trepova for the murder of Russian pro-war blogger   
   Vladlen Tatarsky has raised questions about the young woman's background and   
   politics.   
      
   Russia media reports say Ms Trepova, 26, handed Tatarsky a statuette which was   
   believed to contain the explosives that killed him and injured more than 30   
   people. Later in a video released by the Russian Interior Ministry, she is   
   seen admitting she    
   brought the statuette to the cafe where the blast took place.   
      
   However, her statement was most likely obtained under duress, and she does not   
   say whether she knew about the explosives.   
      
   Russian officials say the act of terror, as the killing is now being   
   described, was planned and organised from the territory of Ukraine, and that   
   the suspect is a supporter of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), headed by   
   jailed Russian opposition    
   leader Alexey Navalny.   
      
   But friends and family say that while she was an anti-war activist - she was   
   reportedly detained at a protest at the start of the war - her views were not   
   radical and she was not capable of murder.   
      
   Her husband Dmitry Rylov suggests she may have been duped.  So what do we know   
   about Darya Trepova?   
      
   An acquaintance told the BBC that she went to school in the town of Pushkin   
   outside St Petersburg, adding that she "didn't seem to have any political   
   views then".   
      
   Other sources say she later enrolled at St Petersburg state university, though   
   it is not clear at what faculty, and she is not believed to have finished her   
   course.   
      
   According to another friend, she worked for a long time at a vintage clothes   
   shop in the city, but left her job a month ago to move to Moscow.   
      
   It is not clear how long she has been married to Mr Rylov.   
      
   In an interview for the Agentstvo telegram channel, friends of Ms Trepova said   
   that their marriage was a "joke" and they were really just friends.   
      
   But some reports say the pair were both arrested at an anti-war rally on 24   
   February last year, at the start of the invasion of Ukraine.   
      
   Ms Trepova was detained for 10 days, apparently for ignoring police requests   
   for the crowd to disperse.   
      
   Mr Rylov is said to be a member of a small fringe opposition group called the   
   Libertarian Party, which was involved in the demonstrations. The party said he   
   had emigrated.   
      
   It also told the Telegram channel SOTA that Ms Trepova had no connection to   
   the party, and that it condemned Tatarsky's killing.   
      
   Some reports say Mr Rylov is also wanted in connection with the killing.   
      
   He told SVTV News that she could not have willingly committed murder. "I   
   believe that my wife was duped," he said.   
      
   "Yes, it's true that neither of us support the war in Ukraine, but we believe   
   that such acts are impermissible.   
      
   "I'm 100% sure that she would never have agreed to anything like this if she   
   had known about it."   
      
   Reports say Russian investigators have not ruled out the possibility that Ms   
   Trepova did not know what was in the statuette.   
      
   Also, Russian media said the young woman had been in correspondence with   
   Tatarsky - the victim of the cafe blast - and had attended previous events he   
   was involved in.   
      
   https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65161900   
      
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