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  • 09 Jun, 2025

    Send a postcard to political prisoner and journalist Nika Novak!

    On July 15, journalist Nika Novak will spend her birthday in a penal colony

  • 26 May, 2025

    Urgent appeal: help Ukrainian prisoners in Russia

    We are launching an emergency fundraising campaign to support Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia. Your donations will help cover legal fees and provide humanitarian aid.

  • 06 May, 2025

    Kateryna Korovina is a political prisoner

    A Ukrainian has been sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for donating $11 to the Ukrainian military
  • 05 May, 2025

    Denys Yezhov is a political prisoner

    A Ukrainian from Crimea has been sentenced to one year’s imprisonment for shouting ‘Glory to Ukraine! Ukraine will prevail!’
  • 30 Apr, 2025

    Piruz Peikrishvili is a political prisoner

    A resident of Khabarovsk Krai has been sentenced to six years in a penal colony on charges of repeatedly ‘discrediting’ the Russian army and spreading ‘fake news’

  • 29 Apr, 2025

    Ilya Chugaev is a political prisoner

    A resident of Syktyvkar has been sentenced to three years in a penal colony for justifying terrorism in comments on YouTube

  • 29 Apr, 2025

    Sergei Ulukshonov is a political prisoner

    A resident of Krasnoyarsk has been sentenced to four years and eight months in a strict regime penal colony for allegedly planning to join a Ukrainian military unit

  • 28 Apr, 2025

    Vitaly Zaitsev is a political prisoner

    A resident of Tula was sentenced to two years’ compulsory work in custody for three online comments about Russia’s war against Ukraine
  • 28 Apr, 2025

    Aleksandr Glushkin is a political prisoner

    A school security guard from St Petersburg is being prosecuted under the ‘fake news’ law for a post on VK about Bucha

  • 09 Jun, 2025

    Send a postcard to political prisoner and journalist Nika Novak!

    On July 15, journalist Nika Novak will spend her birthday in a penal colony

  • 26 May, 2025

    Urgent appeal: help Ukrainian prisoners in Russia

    We are launching an emergency fundraising campaign to support Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia. Your donations will help cover legal fees and provide humanitarian aid.

  • 06 May, 2025

    Kateryna Korovina is a political prisoner

    A Ukrainian has been sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for donating $11 to the Ukrainian military
  • 05 May, 2025

    Denys Yezhov is a political prisoner

    A Ukrainian from Crimea has been sentenced to one year’s imprisonment for shouting ‘Glory to Ukraine! Ukraine will prevail!’
  • 30 Apr, 2025

    Piruz Peikrishvili is a political prisoner

    A resident of Khabarovsk Krai has been sentenced to six years in a penal colony on charges of repeatedly ‘discrediting’ the Russian army and spreading ‘fake news’

  • 29 Apr, 2025

    Ilya Chugaev is a political prisoner

    A resident of Syktyvkar has been sentenced to three years in a penal colony for justifying terrorism in comments on YouTube

  • 29 Apr, 2025

    Sergei Ulukshonov is a political prisoner

    A resident of Krasnoyarsk has been sentenced to four years and eight months in a strict regime penal colony for allegedly planning to join a Ukrainian military unit

  • 28 Apr, 2025

    Vitaly Zaitsev is a political prisoner

    A resident of Tula was sentenced to two years’ compulsory work in custody for three online comments about Russia’s war against Ukraine
  • 28 Apr, 2025

    Aleksandr Glushkin is a political prisoner

    A school security guard from St Petersburg is being prosecuted under the ‘fake news’ law for a post on VK about Bucha

  • Важные истории 11 Apr, 2025

    “We Will Imprison This One and Buy That One.” Why Are Scientists Being Persecuted in Russia

    The main task of the special services is to intimidate and divide the scientific community. They do not care about anything else

  • Mediazona 21 Mar, 2025

    “I am the accuser here—I accuse Putin’s corpse‑stinking clique”. Closing statement of dissident Alexander Skobov, sentenced to 16 years in prison

    1st Western District Military Court sentenced 67-year-old dissident Alexander Skobov to 16 years in prison

  • Mediazona 11 Mar, 2025

    Horror in My Home. Story of a Ukrainian woman Kateryna Korovina, sentenced to 10 years in Russia for donating $12 to Ukrainian causes

    In late February, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced 28-year-old Kateryna Korovina, a Ukrainian from Luhansk region, to 10 years in prison for “financing extremism and terrorism

  • Mediazona 29 Jan, 2025

    The anti‑war lawyer jailed for a social media post. The story of political prisoner Dmitry Talantov

    Today, Dmitriy Talantov, a 64-year-old lawyer from Izhevsk, was recently sentenced to seven years in a penal colony for spreading “fake news” about the Russian army and “inciting hatred”.

  • Mediazona 21 Jan, 2025

    A women’s prison and the withdrawal of hormone therapy. The story of trans activist Mark Kislitsyn, sentenced to 12 years for transferring $10 to Ukraine

    Mark Kislitsyn, a 27-year-old trans man and volunteer at Centre T, a Russian initiative, has been actively assisting people in crisis in recent years

  • Mediazona 16 Dec, 2024

    Revenge for pacifism and a provocation in a prison hospital. The story of political prisoner Alexei Gorinov

    Mediazona’s Elizaveta Nesterova talks about Alexei Gorinov, a scientist, a city councillor and the first person to receive prison time for spreading “fake news” about the Russian army

  • Mediazona 12 Dec, 2024

    Azov POW Oleksandr Maksymchuk sentenced to 20 years recounts torture in Taganrog pre‑trial detention centre

    Last week, a court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Ukrainian prisoner of war Oleksandr Maksymchuk to 20 years in a maximum security prison.

  • Mediazona 29 Nov, 2024

    Behind bars in the USSR and in Putin’s Russia. The story of dissident Marxist Alexander Skobov

    The number of Russians who find themselves behind bars for opposing authorities who launched the war with Ukraine grows by day.

  • Mediazona 11 Nov, 2024

    “A doctor cannot wish harm upon a child”. Paediatrician Nadezhda Buyanova’s final statement in court

    In Moscow’s Tushinsky District Court, the trial of paediatrician Nadezhda Buyanova nears its conclusion

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Михаил Мойш
Moish
Mikhail Florovich
Klimkin
Anton Vladimirovich
Sinelnikov
Pavel Nikolaevich
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Daniil Sergeevich
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