Moscow: political persecution, detentions, searches, trials. Human rights news - 5 | OVD-Info

10.09.2025

Moscow activist Konstantin Kotov has been requested to be sentenced in absentia to seven years in prison.

06.09.2025

A man was detained at Patriarch’s Pond for paddleboarding in a swan costume.

06.09.2025

A former dispatcher of the Moscow State Budget Institution “Zhilishchnik” is being held in a pre-trial detention centre in connection with the “Artpodgotovka” case.

04.09.2025

The court sentenced journalist Karen Shainyan in absentia to five years in a penal colony over two donations to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).

04.09.2025

A Moscow resident has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison in a case concerning the financing of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).

30.08.2025

In Moscow, a driver has been sent to a pre-trial detention centre on charges of state treason. They reported torture and “revolving door arrests.”

29.08.2025

A resident of Balakhna has been sentenced to 18 years over anti-war posts and participation in the Freedom of Russia Legion.

26.08.2025

In Moscow, a blogger who wished death upon Russians has been arrested on charges of inciting hatred.

25.08.2025

A criminal case has been opened against a Moscow resident over a joke about how people in besieged Leningrad lived without bubble tea.

25.08.2025

The pro-Kremlin channel Mash has been fined over a post claiming that Roskomnadzor is interfering with the work of car dealers.

25.08.2025

Anna Mongait, a journalist from Dozhd TV, has been arrested in absentia in a case concerning “military fakes.”

23.08.2025

In the Moscow region, blogger and misogynist Arsen Markaryan has been detained on charges of rehabilitating Nazism.

21.08.2025

A French political analyst, previously convicted under the “foreign agent” law, has now been charged with espionage.

20.08.2025

A court has sentenced a Dozhd journalist to detention in absentia in a case concerning evasion of ‘foreign agent’ obligations.

19.08.2025

Human rights defender Sergei Davidis has been sentenced in absentia to six years in prison.

19.08.2025

At Sheremetyevo Airport, blogger Nikita Yefremov was detained over donations to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).

18.08.2025

An amateur radio enthusiast from Moscow has been convicted on charges of insulting the feelings of believers and inciting hatred.

14.08.2025

A former defendant in the “Moscow Case” has been arrested in absentia under the article on military “fakes.”

14.08.2025

Blogger Ilya Varlamov has been sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison

13.08.2025

In the Marfino district of Moscow, opponents of the courtyard redevelopment were detained.