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Oleksandra Kazarovytska (Kolesnikova), co-founder of the Professional language school in Kharkiv, has died in a remand prison in occupied Sevastopol.

Russian scientists and university lecturers are increasingly being prosecuted for “financing extremism” over small donations to the Anti-Corruption Foundation.

Viktor Grigorov, a lawyer from Irkutsk accused of using violence against investigators, has been detained and remanded in custody.

Russian security forces have detained Oleksii Shulha in occupied Enerhodar. His wife, Nataliia Shulha, was sentenced to 14 and a half years in a penal colony in 2025.

At least 5,828 people in Russia and the occupied Ukrainian territories have been deprived of liberty with signs of political motivation

Tofik Abdulgaziev, a Crimean Muslim, was released from a penal colony on health grounds on 26 October.

Aleksandr Kondratov, a production designer who won Golden Eagle and TEFI awards for the 2007 Russian television series Liquidation, has died in Moscow while facing a treason charge.

As part of the latest stage of a ‘combined prisoner exchange’, 270 Ukrainians have returned to Ukraine. At least 58 of those released had been convicted by Russian courts on criminal charges.

Four vastly different cellmates are on trial: a Ukrainian civilian severely tortured by the FSB, a minor drug offender, and two Russian contract soldiers serving life sentences for massacring a family of nine in occupied Ukraine.

The Moscow City Court has rejected an appeal against the arrest of political scientist Alexander Kynev, who faces large-scale drug distribution charges.

Vladimir Putin has released U.S. citizen Stephen Hubbard, who had been convicted by a Russian court on mercenary charges

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said Russian law enforcement authorities detained a German citizen who allegedly signed a contract with the Ukrainian army and deserted.

Scientists and university faculty in Russia are increasingly facing prosecution for financing “extremism” through donations to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), Mediazona reported.

In July 2025, Russian soldiers took 68-year-old Halyna Bekhter from her home in the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region. She was soon convicted of treason: according to investigators, she had transferred money to the Ukrainian army.

Semyon Krasotkin, a 27-year-old mathematician and journalist from Moscow, has been jailed on treason charges, the news outlet Vot Tak reported.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has handed down sentences to four defendants in a case involving a series of explosions in occupied Melitopol.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Japanese authorities do not engage in espionage in Russia, responding to the detention of Hokkaido Shimbun correspondent Yuki Imai in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.