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Kostroma Oblast: What's Happening? Political Repression, Detentions, Pressure

22.09.2026
Kostroma Oblast
Yevgeniya Berkovich has been sent to solitary confinement for the third time. There she is not being given the necessary medication.
02.04.2026
Moscow,
Kostroma Oblast
A resident of Kostroma who reported being tortured during their arrest has been sentenced to six years in prison over two comments.
26.01.2026
Kostroma Oblast
A resident of Kostroma has been arrested over two comments. After being detained, they reported torture in FSB custody.
08.12.2025
Kostroma Oblast,
Temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea
A Crimean has been denied medical assistance in prison for nearly a year
11.11.2025
Kostroma Oblast
A suspended sentence has been changed to a real prison term for a bookseller from the Kostroma region in a case concerning “military ‘fakes.’”
31.10.2025
Kostroma Oblast
Dagestan activist Ulker Gashimova has reported that she spent the whole of October in a punishment cell.
23.10.2025
Kostroma Oblast
Activist from “Left Resistance” sentenced to 9 years has declared a hunger strike
13.08.2025
Kostroma Oblast
Another inmate attacked activist Darya Polyudova in the penal colony.
30.07.2025
Kostroma Oblast
A resident of Kostroma region has been fined 40,000 roubles (approximately US$450) in a case concerning donations to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).
17.07.2025
Kostroma Oblast
A nurse sentenced to eight years in prison for posts about the war has been transferred to a penal colony.
30.06.2025
Kostroma Oblast
A Jehovah’s Witness from Kostroma, a city in central Russia, has been taken to a penal colony.
08.06.2025
Kostroma Oblast
Director Yevgeniya Berkovich has been banned from staging plays in the penal colony
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