On 2 October 2020, Slavina died through self-immolation in front of the building of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (opposite the Gorkovskaya metro station).

The head of the Agora human rights group, Pavel Chikov, draws attention to the fact that Slavina was fined the largest possible under the article on disrespect for the authorities.

Slavina, in her post on Facebook, suggested renaming Shakhunya, changing the last few letters in the name of the settlement, so that the result was an obscene word.

[7] In June 2016, together with Askhat Kayumov and Andrei Khomov, Slavina headed the list of the Yabloko party in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.

[8] In 2016, as a candidate from the Yabloko party, she took part in the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation in the Prioksky single-mandate district of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and took 8th place out of 10, gaining 3,468 votes or 1.28%.

In 2015, she founded and headed, as editor-in-chief, the independent online newspaper "Koza Press", covering the social and political events and problems of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.

[12] Following the raid, Slavina wrote "They were looking for brochures, leaflets, invoices of Open Russia, possibly an icon with the face of Mikhail Khodorkovsky...

"[17] Kremlin critic Ilya Yashin stated "All of these cases of police amusing themselves, these shows of men in masks – these are not games.