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

21.08.2026

Nikolai Bondarenko, the Communist Party candidate in the State Duma elections, has been detained over a post featuring a photograph of Navalny.

09.02.2026

Human rights activist Boris Ushakov from Saratov Region has been arrested in connection with a new criminal case

06.02.2026

“Rus’ Sidyashchaya”: In a prison hospital in Saratov, a person convicted on charges of state treason has died

30.10.2025

A criminal case has been opened against a journalist from Saratov over a voice message.

25.09.2025

A Jehovah’s Witness from Saratov, a major city on the Volga River, was beaten with a stun gun during a search.

11.09.2025

Security forces have carried out searches targeting Jehovah’s Witnesses in Saratov region (a federal subject in southern European Russia).

21.08.2025

A search was carried out at the home of the mother of the former coordinator of Navalny’s Saratov office. New cases have been opened against him.

19.08.2025

In Saratov, a city on the Volga River, two activists were detained with placards addressed to Volodin.

08.08.2025

A resident of Saratov Oblast, a region in southern Russia, has been sentenced in a case concerning the financing of an “undesirable organisation.”

05.08.2025

In Saratov, a major city on the Volga River, security forces detained activists who were trying to prevent the gates of a children’s park from being welded shut.

14.06.2025

The independent Saratov-based publication Svobodnye Novosti has announced that it is ceasing operations.

04.06.2025

In Saratov, a major city on the Volga River, the press secretary of the regional branch of Yabloko has been detained.