Kirov Oblast: political persecution, detentions, searches, trials. Human rights news | OVD-Info

26.01.2026

Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

A resident of Kirov has been sentenced to six years in prison for comments about the war in Ukraine.

07.11.2025

A civic activist from Kirov has been released from a penal colony after being convicted of discrediting the army.

30.07.2025

A Saint Petersburg resident convicted over anti-war comments has been sent to a punitive confinement unit for five months

10.07.2025

A woman from Kirov Region will stand trial over donations to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK)

07.07.2025

A criminal case has been opened against a resident of Kirov for donating to FBK over a transfer of 2,100 roubles (approximately US$23).

02.07.2025

A resident of Kirov has been sentenced to four years in prison for justifying the explosion in Crimea.

30.06.2025

A Jehovah’s Witness from Votkinsk, a city in the Udmurt Republic, has been transferred to a penal colony

27.06.2025

A person convicted in the case of setting fire to a military recruitment office has been released from the penal colony.

24.06.2025

A former law enforcement officer from Kirov, convicted over comments about Bucha, has been transferred to a penal colony.

04.06.2025

In Kirov, a major city in western Russia, followers of the Ukrainian church “Vozrozhdenie” (“Revival”) have been sentenced to compulsory community service.