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05.09.2025

A former associate professor from Kursk, a city in western Russia, has been sentenced to three years in prison over a comment made on Telegram.

05.09.2025

A volunteer who helped Ukrainian refugees in Kursk Oblast, a region in western Russia near the border with Ukraine, has been sentenced to five years in prison.

22.08.2025

A criminal case has been opened against a school student who sent a photo of a ‘gachimuchi’ meme hero for a veterans’ wall display.

12.08.2025

A business school lecturer has been sentenced to 16 years in a penal colony over a case involving drone strikes on Kursk, a city in western Russia.

10.07.2025

A criminal case has been opened against SOTA journalists over their trip to Sudzha, when it was under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Searching for “Ukrainian traces”: an artist’s mother intimidated by cops

Searching for “Ukrainian traces”: an artist’s mother intimidated by cops

Here is artist Andrey Semkin’s story about the undue police pressure on his mother. He left the country not long before the opening of his anti-war exhibition.