Zhenya is a theatre director and poet who also cared for two foster daughters. Her play "Finist the Brave Falcon", about Russian women lured into marrying Islamist fighters, won Russia's top theatre prize, the Golden Mask. Prosecutors then claimed the play "justified terrorism", and she was sentenced to about five and a half years. In the colony she has been banned from staging plays and has been sent to punishment cells three times.
