All assessments of the criminal prosecution of specific individuals, including the designation of detained persons as political prisoners, reflect the position of our Project. Such assessments are not based on the views and assessments of the individuals being prosecuted, their families, friends or lawyers, and do not imply their consent or approval. The information regarding the facts of specific criminal cases published on our Project’s website has been obtained from public sources and does not imply or require the consent of the individuals mentioned therein or their representatives.
A resident of Orenburg Oblast has been sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment on charges of attempting to set fire to a railway relay cabinet and seeking to join the Free Russia Legion
15 Oct, 2025
Oleg Yelymanov is a political prisoner
A blogger from Yekaterinburg has been sentenced to six years’ imprisonment on a charge of ‘fake news’ about the Russian army
14 Oct, 2025
Stanislav Rudenko is a political prisoner
A Ukrainian from Zaporizhzhia Oblast has been sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment on charges of financing terrorism for donating to the Ukrainian army
14 Oct, 2025
Aleksandra Byzova is a political prisoner
A resident of Dmitrov, near Moscow, has been sentenced to 18 months in a low security penal colony for ‘discrediting’ the Russian army
13 Oct, 2025
Danila Yakovlev is a political prisoner
A resident of Altai Krai has been sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment for donating to the Free Russia Legion
09 Oct, 2025
Sergei Bryukhanov is a political prisoner
An Irkutsk artist has been sentenced to 19 years’ imprisonment for drawing symbols of the Free Russia Legion and correspondence found on his phone
08 Oct, 2025
Gennady Kalashnikov is a political prisoner
A lawyer from Vorkuta has been sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment for two comments on Telegram and correspondence with his son
08 Oct, 2025
Marat Gadzhiev is a political prisoner
A Sakhalin resident has been charged with collusion with a foreign state for making phone calls to Norwegian diplomatic offices
07 Oct, 2025
Ivan Monakhov is a political prisoner
A resident of Ivanovo has been sentenced to 12 years in a strict regime penal colony for transferring money to Ukraine on the first day of the full-scale war
07 Oct, 2025
Aleksandr Vechirko is a political prisoner
A lieutenant colonel in reserve from Khabarovsk Krai has been sentenced to 13 years’ imprisonment for transferring money to his daughter in Ukraine
06 Oct, 2025
Egor Melnikov is a political prisoner
A resident of Moscow Oblast has been sentenced to seven years in a penal colony for setting fire to a railway relay cabinet, an act committed while he was a minor
03 Oct, 2025
Khalil Kurtamet is a political prisoner
A businessman from Ukraine’s Kherson Oblast has been sentenced to eight years in a strict regime penal colony on a charge of participating in the Noman Çelebicihan Battalion
02 Oct, 2025
Aleksandr Mineev is a political prisoner
A Muscovite has been committed to a psychiatric hospital for compulsory treatment, accused of intending to set fire to a military recruitment centre
01 Oct, 2025
Aleksandr Grigoryev is a political prisoner
A resident of Lobnya, near Moscow, has been convicted on charges of ‘collusion’ with a foreign state
01 Oct, 2025
Sergei Irin is a political prisoner
A Yandex programmer has been sentenced to 15 years in a strict regime penal colony on a charge of treason for donating to the Ukrainian fund ‘Come Back Alive’
30 Sep, 2025
Eldar Marchenko is a political prisoner
A teacher from Moscow Oblast has been sentenced to 16 years in a strict regime penal colony for terrorism, accused of directing drones at an airfield in Kursk
29 Sep, 2025
Ivan Fokin is a political prisoner
A tractor driver from Belgorod, who accidentally came to the attention of the police, was accused of wanting the join the Free Russia Legion and sentenced to nine years in a strict regime penal colony
26 Sep, 2025
Dmitry Regush is a political prisoner
A businessman from Moscow has been sentenced to three and a half years’ imprisonment for donating to Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation
25 Sep, 2025
Roman Grigoryan is a political prisoner
An entrepreneur from Sevastopol has been sentenced to 12 years in a penal colony on a charge of treason
23 Sep, 2025
Arsenty Derenutsa is a political prisoner
A person with dual citizenship of Moldova and Russia has been sentenced to five years in a penal colony on a charge of collusion with foreigners
22 Sep, 2025
Igor Siomik is a political prisoner
A St. Petersburg resident has been sentenced to 10 years in a strict regime penal colony on a charge of financing terrorism for allegedly transferring funds to the Ukrainian Azov Battalion
19 Sep, 2025
Artemy Doronin and Egor Lauskis are political prisoners
Two schoolchildren from St. Petersburg have been sentenced to between two and four years in a penal colony for attempting to set fire to a railway relay cabinet
17 Sep, 2025
Aleksei Detychev is a political prisoner
An employee of the Russian Red Cross and former regional deputy minister from Khabarovsk has been sentenced to four and a half years in a penal colony for ‘collusion’ with the United Kingdom
15 Sep, 2025
Roman Mayorov is a political prisoner
A resident of Moscow Oblast has been sentenced to almost five years in a penal colony for WhatsApp correspondence that the investigative authorities deemed ‘collusion with foreigners’
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