Other: political persecution, detentions, searches, trials. Human rights news - 6 | OVD-Info

30.06.2025

RIA Novosti: A criminal case has been opened against Yury Dud for failure to fulfil the obligations of a ‘foreign agent’

25.06.2025

A new case has been opened against former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev for incitement to terrorism.

25.06.2025

Andrei Zayakin, co-founder of Dissernet, has been sentenced in absentia to five years in prison over a donation to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).

24.06.2025

The Prosecutor General’s Office has declared the Hungarian organisation Sex Worker’s Rights Advocacy Network “undesirable.”

23.06.2025

A political émigré from Sterlitamak has been declared wanted in connection with a case of repeated “discrediting” of the army.

20.06.2025

A Russian citizen who moved to the US has been charged with spreading “military fakes” over posts about events in Bucha and Izium.

20.06.2025

LGBTQ priest, playwright, surgeon and lawyers: the Ministry of Justice has added new names to the ‘foreign agents’ register

19.06.2025

St Petersburg politician Maksim Reznik has been declared wanted by the authorities

19.06.2025

A Georgian opposition figure has been sentenced to two years in prison over posts about Georgians fighting in the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

18.06.2025

Lawyer Valeria Vetoshkina has been placed under a travel restriction order in a case concerning alleged violations of “foreign agent” obligations.

18.06.2025

ASTRA: An Ossetian human rights defender has been charged with incitement to terrorism over a post about the war

17.06.2025

Putin has approved yet another draft law tightening legislation on ‘foreign agents.’

14.06.2025

A woman from Mariupol has been sentenced to six years in prison over her posts.

11.06.2025

A criminal case has been initiated against an activist in Omsk, a major city in Siberia, for participation in an extremist organisation.

11.06.2025

Journalists Aleksandr Plyushchev, Galina Timchenko, and Sergey Kovalchenko have been declared wanted by the authorities.

11.06.2025

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has declared the group of Mongolian activists #NOWAR an “undesirable organisation”

10.06.2025

Yaroslavl Oblast

“Postnews”: An LGBTQ activist from Yaroslavl, a city north-east of Moscow, faces charges of participating in an extremist organisation

09.06.2025

Prosecutors have requested an 18-year prison sentence in absentia for Leonid Volkov in a case involving 45 episodes.

09.06.2025

Republic of Karelia

A criminal case has been opened against a Mediazona journalist under the “foreign agent” law.

08.06.2025

Arkhangelsk Oblast

A woman from the closed city of Mirny has been convicted in absentia over anti-war social media posts.