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

29.05.2026

Vologda Oblast,

Republic of Dagestan

New “foreign agents,” confiscation of a phone for displaying the Instagram logo, and censorship of letters. Political pressure news

27.05.2026

Sentence for a hookah on a kulich, shaman Gabyshev’s health, and a fine for “Takie Dela”: political crackdown news

26.05.2026

Irkutsk Oblast,

Chelyabinsk Oblast

Sentence for the mathematician, transfer from PKT to punitive isolation cell, and new measures for emigrants: News on political repression

25.05.2026

Primorsky Krai,

Saint Petersburg,

Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

New case against Astra’s founder, a picket outside the Kremlin, and suspended sentence for a believer: Political repression news

21.05.2026

Vladimir Oblast,

Saint Petersburg,

Sverdlovsk Oblast

Attack on a human rights defender, sentence for an artist, and arrest over leaflets: political pressure news

13.05.2026

The OVD-Info press secretary has been fined for involvement in an “undesirable organisation” case.

04.05.2026

“Centre T” has been declared an extremist organisation

28.04.2026

The head of the Moscow Zen Centre has been sentenced to six years in a penal colony over a case concerning “fake news” about the military.

22.04.2026

An elderly woman from the Moscow region has been sentenced to seven years in prison in a case involving the “citizens of the USSR” movement.

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.