Sverdlovsk Oblast: political persecution, detentions, searches, trials. Human rights news - 4 | OVD-Info

02.07.2025

Sverdlovsk Oblast

The case against the Urals priest for discrediting the army turned out to be linked to Prigozhin’s video address

28.06.2025

Sverdlovsk Oblast

The Ministry of Justice has demanded the dissolution of the Russian All-People’s Union party.

25.06.2025

Sverdlovsk Oblast

In Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals, an officer who spoke out against the war in Ukraine has been sentenced to 18 years on charges of treason.

25.06.2025

Sverdlovsk Oblast

Police visited activists in Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals region.

19.06.2025

Sverdlovsk Oblast

Letters are not being passed on to a defendant in the ‘Tyumen case’ at the pre-trial detention centre in Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals.

18.06.2025

Sverdlovsk Oblast

A new criminal case has been opened against the defendant in the Anti-Torture Project case.

17.06.2025

Sverdlovsk Oblast

The prosecutor’s office wants to change the sentence for the “esoteric investigator” from Yekaterinburg, a large city in the Urals.

06.06.2025

Sverdlovsk Oblast

A typist from Sverdlovsk Region has been sentenced to 20 years for attempting to set fire to a military recruitment office.

05.06.2025

Sverdlovsk Oblast

Security forces have raided the offices of the pro-government outlet URA.RU

01.06.2025

Sverdlovsk Oblast

An activist holding a picket in support of the arrested school student has been detained in Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals region.

Putin-antichrist and a sermon of unjust victory: why a priest from the Sverdlovsk region was fined 100,000 rubles

Putin-antichrist and a sermon of unjust victory: why a priest from the Sverdlovsk region was fined 100,000 rubles

The story of a priest from Verkhoturye about how he ended up being a suspect of an anti-war case because of a post on VK.