Dancer jailed for TWERKING in Russia

2022-07-22

Dancer jailed for TWERKING in Russia reveals terrifying ordeal inside bug-infested cell as she is backed by country’s leading female opposition politician

Dancer Yana ‘Cat’ Sloeva, 21, was jailed for three days for ‘petty hooliganism’
She was arrested in her home city of Yekaterinburg for twerking in public
She was kept in a bug-infested cell and given no contact with the outside world
Police chief Valery Gorelykh meanwhile said he would not tolerate ‘anarchy’

A Russian dancer has revealed her terror at being thrown in a bug-infested detention cell for three days as punishment for twerking in public.

Yana ‘Cat’ Sloeva, 21, has won popular support over what is seen as an excessive use of the law by Vladimir Putin’s police force.

Videos showed her performing at the Yeltsin Centre – named after former president Boris Yeltsin – in her home city of Yekaterinburg with the message ‘So what?’ emblazoned across her buttocks.

She was not near a church or other religious site which are subject to tough legal controls in Russia, but police detained her at the scene and she was later sentenced to three days in jail.

Dance teacher Yana said: ‘It was a little unusual, but I didn’t get a single bad reaction, everyone clapped and supported me.

‘It’s like street musicians or street dancers. All my private parts were covered. I’m not a prostitute — it’s just a dance.

‘I am a very modest person in life – it is better to be liberated in this way than in some other way, by taking drugs, for example.

‘My parents, friends and others support me… My ass hasn’t hurt anyone yet!’

Twerk dancer Yana ‘Cat’ Sloeva, 21, was sentenced to three days behind bars for ‘violating public order’ in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The message on her buttocks reads: ‘So what?’

Dance teacher Yana said: ‘It’s like street musicians or street dancers. All my private parts were covered. I’m not a prostitute — it’s just a dance. I am a very modest person in life – it is better to be liberated in this way than in some other way, by taking drugs, for example’

Yana is pictured while being processed at a municipal detention centre

Yana, who was held in a temporary detention centre at the city’s interior ministry office, said: ‘I was in a cell – with four walls, under video surveillance, without a phone, without civilisation.

‘Just four walls and bugs crawling all over you. I don’t want anyone to be in such a place, it’s scary.’

Meanwhile, police chief Valery Gorelykh said it was the decision of a court to remove the street dancer from public view and lock her up – without explaining how or when such a decision was made.

‘The girl was punished for petty hooliganism,’ he said.

‘She realised that she had crossed the line of decency, and repented of what she had done. Maybe it will stop other lovers of candid dancing from doing such things. Smart people should learn from the mistakes of others.’

Gorelykh said he would not tolerate dancers ‘flashing their intimate parts’.

‘There has been no anarchy in our region, there is not, and will not be. All such activities will be severely suppressed by the police.’

But Yana won backing from former presidential candidate and outspoken Putin foe Ksenia Sobchak, Russia’s leading female opposition politician.

She demanded: ‘Is the Yeltsin Centre a religious facility or what? Why can’t you dance in shorts in front of it?

‘Why is twerking by a beautiful girl called anarchy? Does the official representative of the police in the Sverdlovsk region, Valery Gorelykh, drink in the morning before giving comments?’

Police chief Valery Gorelykh said it was the decision of a court to remove Yana (pictured) from public view and lock her up

Legal expert Sergei Kolosovsky said the law was being wrongly used against her, and a snap poll showed 52 percent believing the punishment was harsh, though 28 percent said she should have faced a fine

Yana won backing from former presidential candidate and outspoken Putin foe Ksenia Sobchak (pictured), Russia’s leading female opposition politician

Sobchak went on to accuse the authorities of ‘really going mad’, and many others also criticised the actions of the overly-strict police.

But some conservative citizens took to social media to express support for the authorities’ decision.

One comment read: ‘Such moves should be done in bed with her husband.

‘She will be happy and her husband will be delighted, but not in front of people, including children and [people of] various faiths.’

Another critic said: ‘A decent girl will not behave like that.’

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