MOSCOW, February 16. /TASS/. The Migration Service of the Moscow police has slapped a 40-year entry ban to Russia on American citizen Alicia Day, who was detained two weeks ago after walking a calf along Moscow’s Red Square.
"A decision was handed down not to allow US citizen Alicia Day, born on August 9, 1988, to enter Russia until February 13, 2063," stated the official protocol read out at Moscow’s Troitsky district court that reviewed the expulsion of the American national from Russia.
A protocol was filed against Day under Part 3 of Article 18.8 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation ("Violation by a foreign citizen of the rules of entry or stay in the Russian Federation"). It envisages a fine of up to 7,000 rubles ($95) with a possible administrative expulsion from the Russian Federation. The court refused to consider the files since it found no violation in them. On Thursday, Day told journalists that she herself had made the decision to leave Russia.
On February 1, law enforcement officers took Day into custody as she was walking a calf she had purchased online, while shouting "animals are not food" on Moscow’s Red Square, where unauthorized public events are prohibited. The animal activist said she also planned to take the calf to Kirov, a city located about 900 kilometers northeast of Moscow, to show it the ‘beautiful country’. Moscow’s Tverskoy Court imposed a jail term of 13 days and a 20,000-ruble ($286) fine on her for resisting arrest.
Day pleaded guilty. According to her, her actions were not politically motivated.
The American also said she kept seven piglets and three calves at her shelter, including the one she was detained with. Last year, the activist resided in Warsaw where she kept a pet lamb, and back in 2019 she rescued a pig in London and kept it in her apartment.
She currently has seven piglets and three calves in the shelter, including the one she was apprehended with.