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29 Oct, 2025
Turan Ustyugov is a political prisoner
A 19-year-old citizen of Kazakhstan has been sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment for attempting to join the Russian Volunteer Corps
28 Oct, 2025
Andrei Voronin is a political prisoner
An activist from Samara has been sentenced to more than 15 years’ imprisonment on three convictions and seven charges
28 Oct, 2025
Vadim Tomilov is a political prisoner
A high school student in Sverdlovsk Oblast has been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for intending to join the Russian Volunteer Corps
27 Oct, 2025
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27 Oct, 2025
Aleksei Giletin is a political prisoner
A resident of Murmansk has been sentenced to 11 years in a penal colony for corresponding with an alleged representative of the Free Russia Legion and filming military facilities
24 Oct, 2025
Dmitry Denisov is a political prisoner
A Stalinist from St. Petersburg has been convicted on a charge of ‘rehabilitating Nazism’ for comparing Putin to Hitler
23 Oct, 2025
Pavel Syutkin is a political prisoner
An historian of Russian cuisine has been remanded in custody for anti-war posts on Telegram
23 Oct, 2025
Viktor Nikitin is a political prisoner
A Khabarovsk resident has been sentenced to five years in a penal colony on a charge of ‘collusion’ with foreigners
22 Oct, 2025
Grigory Skvortsov is a political prisoner
A photographer and musician from Perm has been sentenced to 16 years in a strict regime penal colony on a charge of treason for passing publicly available materials about Moscow's underground bunkers to a foreign journalist
22 Oct, 2025
Serhii Ivashchenko is a political prisoner
A former member of the Ukrainian military has been convicted on charges of participating in a terrorist group for having served in the Aidar Battalion
21 Oct, 2025
Maksim Kruglov is a political prisoner
The deputy chair of the Yabloko party has been sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment on a charge of spreading ‘fake news’ about the Russian army for posts about Bucha and Mariupol
20 Oct, 2025
Aleksandr Sokolovsky is a political prisoner
A blogger from Zelenograd has been sentenced to four years’ compulsory work in a correctional facility on charges of ‘denigrating and insulting participants in the Special Military Operation’
17 Oct, 2025
Ruslan Gornostaev is a political prisoner
An entrepreneur from Oryol region has been sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment for making donations to the Free Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps
16 Oct, 2025
Aleksei Grigoryev is a political prisoner
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
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