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

20.09.2026

In Moscow Oblast, observers and members of election commissions are being removed from polling stations by court order.

20.09.2026

There have been numerous reports of violations during the elections in Dolgoprudny, a town near Moscow.

19.09.2026

The Moscow Regional Court upheld the removal of an election observer from Polling Station No. 355 after a complaint about the sealing of the ballot box.

19.09.2026

In Dolgoprudny, the observer was only allowed to film from an area marked out with tape.

19.09.2026

In Dolgoprudny, the chair of the precinct election commission did not allow an election observer and a female journalist into the polling station.

19.09.2026

In Dolgoprudny, a town near Moscow, the head of the electoral commission did not allow a “Yabloko” observer into the polling station.

17.07.2026

‘I have two paths—Lenin or Navalny’: what you need to know about Boris Nadezhdin

13.07.2026

Boris Nadezhdin has been detained in the Moscow region.

01.06.2026

In the Moscow region, a businessperson was given a three-year suspended sentence for donating 700 rubles (approx. US$8) to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).

22.04.2026

A court in the Moscow region has closed the case on military “fake news” that had been brought against Nikolai Markin, a member of the Yabloko party.

08.04.2026

A blogger who became a “foreign agent” “for a laugh” has been given a suspended sentence

20.03.2026

Novosibirsk Oblast,

Detention of an 80-year-old protester and a fine for playing with a goat carcass: Freedom of assembly news

10.03.2026

In Moscow, a member of Yabloko was searched in connection with a case on military “fake news”

17.02.2026

A criminal case has been opened against a journalist who was “made a ‘foreign agent’ as a joke,” under the “foreign agent” article.

22.01.2026

Saint Petersburg

A schoolgirl convicted over portraits of RVC members has spoken about threats from law enforcement officers

21.01.2026

A saxophonist from Samara, a major city on the Volga River, has been sentenced to six years in prison over posts about the war.

13.01.2026

Comedian Aleksandr Gudkov fined over parody of SHAMAN’s song ‘I’m Russian’

15.12.2025

Activist Pavel Krisevich has been sentenced to a further 12 days in detention under the article on petty hooliganism.

11.12.2025

Voronezh Oblast,

Voronezh activists were detained at Domodedovo Airport

08.12.2025

The convicted former head of the Serpukhov district attempted to take his own life due to the eviction of his 89-year-old mother.