Schemes journalists claim that the judge of the now liquidated District Administrative Court of the city of Kyiv, Arina Litvinova, who has the current status of a judge, has a passport of the Russian Federation. The judge herself called this information a “provocation.”
This is stated in the article of the “Schemes” project from Radio Liberty.
Journalists refer to an extract from the Rospassport automated system for December 2022. According to him, in July 2002 in Yekaterinburg, a woman named Arina Litvinova became a citizen of the Russian Federation and received a Russian passport. The reason for acquiring citizenship is to replace the passport of a citizen of the USSR. By that time, Litvinova had already been working at the Supreme Arbitration Court of Ukraine for three years.
On the website of the High Qualification Commission of Judges, journalists found Judge Litvinova’s questionnaire, which she filled out in 2018, when she underwent the qualification assessment. When asked if she had citizenship of another state, Litvinova replied: “No.”
Journalists also found that as of April 2024, the Russian passport of Arina Litvinova was listed as invalid because she did not replace it with a new one upon reaching her 45th birthday in 2022. However, this does not mean the woman loses her Russian citizenship.
When asked by Schemes about Russian citizenship, Arina Litvinova replied that “this is some kind of provocation” and hung up. Litvinova’s parents, as journalists have established, also have citizenship of the Russian Federation.