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

21.04.2026

Searches are being carried out at the management offices of the Eksmo publishing house in connection with a case concerning LGBT literature.

17.04.2026

Irkutsk Oblast,

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),

Khabarovsk Krai

March of Chinese workers and ban on religious procession outside the Kremlin: News on freedom of assembly

16.04.2026

A protocol has been drawn up against OVD-Info’s press secretary for participation in an “undesirable organisation.”

13.04.2026

A case has been opened against a staff member of a Moscow bar for offending the feelings of believers over a hookah served on a kulich (traditional Easter cake).

10.04.2026

Oleg Roldugin, a journalist from Novaya Gazeta, has been charged

09.04.2026

A search is being conducted at the offices of Novaya Gazeta in Moscow.

09.04.2026

The Supreme Court has designated the Memorial movement as an extremist organisation.

07.04.2026

In Moscow, law enforcement disrupted a Buddhist festival and detained several monks.

02.04.2026

Kostroma Oblast

A resident of Kostroma who reported being tortured during their arrest has been sentenced to six years in prison over two comments.

30.03.2026

A former employee of the Central Bank has left Russia after prosecutors requested a real prison sentence in the case concerning a donation to the FBK.

12.03.2026

In Moscow, searches were conducted at the homes of journalists and activists as part of the case involving SOTA correspondents.

11.03.2026

The Supreme Court has declared that it is not mandatory to comply with urgent measures requested by the United Nations Human Rights Committee.

06.03.2026

A new case has been opened against a politician from Udmurtia, a region in the western Urals, who had been on hunger strike for over a month.

05.03.2026

Misogynistic blogger Arsen Markaryan has received a prison sentence in a case concerning the rehabilitation of Nazism.

04.03.2026

In Moscow, a former deputy who took part in the “Congress of People’s Deputies” has been arrested.

02.03.2026

Ekaterina Shulman has been sentenced in absentia to one year in prison under the “foreign agent” article.

02.03.2026

The Supreme Court has designated the “Anti-War Committee of Russia” as a terrorist organisation.

27.02.2026

In Moscow, for the third time this week, a solo protester from North Ossetia was detained outside the Prosecutor General’s Office.

26.02.2026

The former photographer of Navalny’s team has had their sentence extended for wishing death upon Putin

24.02.2026

A politician from Udmurtia, convicted over statements about the war and Putin, was on hunger strike for more than a month