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

29.09.2026

A protocol was drawn up against the chair of Yabloko over an anti-war message written on a ballot paper.

28.09.2026

The political analyst Aleksandr Kynev has been arrested on drug-related charges. He has ended up in hospital with fractures.

22.09.2026

A student of the Justice Ministry Academy has been fined for wearing blue-and-yellow bracelets

22.09.2026

In Moscow, a detainee at a polling station has reported being tortured with electric shocks.

21.09.2026

In Moscow, an 18-year-old election observer was detained after being removed from the polling station and was kept overnight at the police station.

21.09.2026

“I’ll shove this phone up your arse.” In Moscow, a member of the precinct election commission hit an independent commission member.

20.09.2026

A Moscow resident received a notice of military registration after voting.

20.09.2026

They are refusing to provide paper ballots, citing “system failures” and threatening people with liability. What’s going on?

20.09.2026

In Moscow, observers are reporting pressure and threats

20.09.2026

Candidate Yulia Kuznetsova has made contact in Moscow.

20.09.2026

Security forces restricted access for voters at one of the polling stations in Moscow.

20.09.2026

A school teacher in Moscow has spoken about being pressured during the elections

19.09.2026

At polling station No. 1452 in Lyublino, a district in south-east Moscow, an observer who was a woman was threatened with expulsion and restricted in filming.

18.09.2026

An artist from Rybinsk has been sentenced to eight years for sending money transfers to Vyacheslav Maltsev

18.09.2026

In Moscow, after meeting with voters, State Duma candidate Yulia Kuznetsova went missing.

16.09.2026

Political prisoner Dmitry Lyamin has been sentenced to 17 years for conversations in the penal colony

15.09.2026

The sentence for translator Svetlana Savelyeva has been made harsher in the state treason case.

15.09.2026

The author of books on the history of Russian cuisine has been sentenced to six years for a post about Bucha.

02.09.2026

In Moscow, Lida Moniava, head of the “House with a Lighthouse” foundation, was detained. Prior to this, her home was searched in connection with a case concerning alleged “fake news” about the military.

19.08.2026

Three Moscow residents arrested near the Supreme Court for supporting Yabloko