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Other: What's Happening? Political Repression, Detentions, Pressure

25.06.2025
Russia,
Other
A new case has been opened against former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev for incitement to terrorism.
25.06.2025
Moscow,
Other
Andrei Zayakin, co-founder of Dissernet, has been sentenced in absentia to five years in prison over a donation to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).
24.06.2025
Other
The Prosecutor General’s Office has declared the Hungarian organisation Sex Worker’s Rights Advocacy Network “undesirable.”
23.06.2025
Russia,
Other
A political émigré from Sterlitamak has been declared wanted in connection with a case of repeated “discrediting” of the army.
20.06.2025
Other,
Rostov Oblast
A Russian citizen who moved to the US has been charged with spreading “military fakes” over posts about events in Bucha and Izium.
20.06.2025
Russia,
Other
LGBTQ priest, playwright, surgeon and lawyers: the Ministry of Justice has added new names to the ‘foreign agents’ register
19.06.2025
Other
St Petersburg politician Maksim Reznik has been declared wanted by the authorities
19.06.2025
Other,
Rostov Oblast
A Georgian opposition figure has been sentenced to two years in prison over posts about Georgians fighting in the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
18.06.2025
Other

Lawyer Valeria Vetoshkina has been placed under a travel restriction order in a case concerning alleged violations of “foreign agent” obligations.
18.06.2025
Other
ASTRA: An Ossetian human rights defender has been charged with incitement to terrorism over a post about the war
17.06.2025
Russia,
Other
Putin has approved yet another draft law tightening legislation on ‘foreign agents.’
14.06.2025
Other,
Rostov Oblast
A woman from Mariupol has been sentenced to six years in prison over her posts.
11.06.2025
Other,
Omsk Oblast
A criminal case has been initiated against an activist in Omsk, a major city in Siberia, for participation in an extremist organisation.
11.06.2025
Russia,
Other
Journalists Aleksandr Plyushchev, Galina Timchenko, and Sergey Kovalchenko have been declared wanted by the authorities.
11.06.2025
Russia,
Other
The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has declared the group of Mongolian activists #NOWAR an “undesirable organisation”
10.06.2025
Other,
Yaroslavl Oblast
“Postnews”: An LGBTQ activist from Yaroslavl, a city north-east of Moscow, faces charges of participating in an extremist organisation
09.06.2025
Moscow,
Other
Prosecutors have requested an 18-year prison sentence in absentia for Leonid Volkov in a case involving 45 episodes.
09.06.2025
Other,
Republic of Karelia
A criminal case has been opened against a Mediazona journalist under the “foreign agent” law.
08.06.2025
Other,
Arkhangelsk Oblast
A woman from the closed city of Mirny has been convicted in absentia over anti-war social media posts.
06.06.2025
Russia,
Other
Former Dom-2 contestant, politician and human rights defenders: Ministry of Justice updates the list of “foreign agents”
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