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

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

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”.

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’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

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

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

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

Mediazona reporter Elizaveta Nesterova tells the story of one such prisoner, 64-year-old Mikhail Simonov

The Dorogomilovsky District Court in Moscow sentenced 59-year-old nurse anaesthetist Olga Menshikh to 8 years in a penal colony under the article on “fake news” about the army for two anti-war posts on VK

A court in Rostov-on-Don has sentenced 26-year-old Iryna Navalna to 8 years in prison

Nina Slobodchikova, a 37-year-old IT professional, has been sentenced to 12 years in a penal colony on charges of treason for making a single money transfer to a Ukrainian blogger’s account. 

Russia’s Second Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction, an appellate court in Moscow, upheld the sentence of Dmitry Ivanov, a mathematician and creator of the “Protest MSU” Telegram channel

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has started hearing closing arguments in the trial of 24 Ukrainian prisoners of war from the Azov regiment.

Mediazona examines how the investigation built its case against Arseny.

the 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced Vladimir Malina, a bartender from Moscow, to 25 years in prison for setting fire to a relay cabinet, with the damage estimated at 9,000 roubles (approximately $100).

Mediazona tells the story of a young man from the Irkutsk region, convicted under six articles of the Russian Criminal Code following an incident on the East Siberian Railway, where no one was injured

Two more journalists have become defendants in a case involving collaboration with Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF, or FBK in Russian), designated as an “extremist organisation” in Russia.

The Ministry of Justice added the “international LGBT movement” to the list of extremist organisations, allowing criminal cases to be opened against those who, according to security forces, promote “non-traditional values.”

The 2nd Western District Military Court in Moscow sentenced Vyacheslav Lutor, a bank employee from St. Petersburg, to 10 years in prison

A court in the Moscow region sentenced RusNews reporter Roman Ivanov to 7 years in a medium security colony for a series of social media posts in which he wrote about the Bucha massacre and other war crimes of the Russian army

Zamoskvoretsky District Court in Moscow extended the detention of theatre director Zhenya Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk

Today in Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court, severe prison sentences were proposed for Artem Kamardin and Yegor Shtovba, poets who participated in last year’s Mayakovsky Readings