“Burn the witch,” wrote Evgenia Rogozina, a fish shop saleswoman from Udmurtia, under a post by Minister of Agriculture Oksana Lut.
This was followed by an extensive quote from journalist Marina Akhmedova's page:

"I was approached by the family of Evgenia Rogozina, a fishmonger from Udmurtia. She is currently in a detention center because she wrote two short words, ‘Burn the witch,’ under a post on VK with a statement by Agriculture Minister Lut about rising butter prices. The minister explained the price increase by saying that the standard of living in Russia had risen. Evgenia was not the only one who commented on this post. Others laughed at the cause-and-effect relationship between the price increase and said that they could no longer afford butter because their incomes had actually decreased. The article for which Rogozina is accused of these two short words is “public calls for terrorist activity.” On February 14, she was placed under house arrest, and on June 9, the measure was tightened to pretrial detention.

Evgenia's husband is a taxi driver. They have two daughters, aged 13 and 8. The older one studies at an Olympic reserve school in Izhevsk and is said to be very promising. The younger one has finished first grade and likes to draw. Evgenia herself has spent her entire life helping to treat and find homes for homeless animals, and when the SVO began, she collected and sent humanitarian aid to the soldiers. She is a parishioner of the local church and took notes there for the health of our soldiers. The parishioners are her parents, who took her to church since childhood. In other words, Evgenia and her husband Arthur are representatives of the deep-rooted people who are carrying the SVO on their shoulders.

They had enough money for butter and even sports equipment for their eldest daughter—Arthur worked hard. If Evgenia is convicted on August 25, her eldest daughter will have to be taken out of the Olympic reserve school because her mother has a criminal record. The girls' grandmother, Yevgeniya's mother, plans to take custody of the younger daughter, Tanya, so that she can live with her in Mozhga while the older daughter is in Izhevsk. Arthur himself cannot be with the girls all the time because of his work; Yevgeniya used to take care of them. Now he has to provide for the children, pay for a lawyer, and send Evgenia parcels to the detention center. In the last letter Evgenia sent from there, she wrote, "I cry every day, I cry into my pillow out of despair. It's so unfair! I don't know how I can go on, my heart is breaking with pain. The days drag on, I feed the pigeons here, I don't eat bread, I can't eat anything. How I wish I could turn into a bird! I write this letter and every time I cry. I love my children very much. When I feel discouraged, I think of them right away."

Once, when Yevgenia was already under house arrest, someone left a bouquet of roses at her door and ran away, afraid to express their support openly. And under her deleted comment, people wrote, “I wonder if a thousand or a million people write ‘Burn the witch,’ will they put us all in jail?” Her friends say that Yevgenia often used these words jokingly. She also wrote “Burn the witch” to them, and no one took offense. In general, it's similar to saying “Shut up!” Linguistic analysis showed that this phrase contains a call to action, but psychological analysis did not confirm this, as the phrase is too short to be evaluated at all.

Minister Oksana Lut does not understand that by persecuting Yevgenia Rogozina, she will achieve the opposite result. Now millions, and most likely tens of millions of people across the country will say these two words, “Burn the witch,” to themselves (and some will say it out loud) every time they are faced with prices that have risen again without mercy. These words could become the new slogan of the people against all those in power. It is dangerous to anger the people in times of great change.