She holds Russian citizenship. She was detained on April 23 , 2025, and her home was searched the same day. She was detained in connection with a criminal case involving messages posted to the "Belarusian Gayun " bot .
Yaroslava is originally from Rogachev. At some point, she moved to Mozyr, likely right after graduating from university.
In recent years, she worked as a teacher in a village school. She taught German at the Moiseevskaya Basic School in the small agricultural town of the same name. She also served as a teacher organizer.
On March 19, 2026, she was pardoned after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).
