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

20.09.2026

Candidate Yulia Kuznetsova has made contact in Moscow.

20.09.2026

Security forces restricted access for voters at one of the polling stations in Moscow.

20.09.2026

A school teacher in Moscow has spoken about being pressured during the elections

19.09.2026

At polling station No. 1452 in Lyublino, a district in south-east Moscow, an observer who was a woman was threatened with expulsion and restricted in filming.

18.09.2026

An artist from Rybinsk has been sentenced to eight years for sending money transfers to Vyacheslav Maltsev

18.09.2026

In Moscow, after meeting with voters, State Duma candidate Yulia Kuznetsova went missing.

16.09.2026

Political prisoner Dmitry Lyamin has been sentenced to 17 years for conversations in the penal colony

15.09.2026

The sentence for translator Svetlana Savelyeva has been made harsher in the state treason case.

15.09.2026

The author of books on the history of Russian cuisine has been sentenced to six years for a post about Bucha.

02.09.2026

In Moscow, Lida Moniava, head of the “House with a Lighthouse” foundation, was detained. Prior to this, her home was searched in connection with a case concerning alleged “fake news” about the military.

19.08.2026

Three Moscow residents arrested near the Supreme Court for supporting Yabloko

17.08.2026

Yabloko has still been removed from the elections: 8 key facts about the process

07.08.2026

Former Popcorn Books director given a four-year suspended sentence. This is the final verdict in the so-called “book publishers’ case.”

28.07.2026

“Tied to the bed and forcibly injected with medication”

07.07.2026

At Kitai-Gorod, security forces carried out a raid targeting teenagers. Dozens of young people were detained, insulted, and tasered. What happened?

02.06.2026

Kaliningrad Oblast,

Saint Petersburg

Prison sentence over a money transfer to an ex-wife, release from remand detention, deportation for prayer overturned: Political persecution news

29.05.2026

Vologda Oblast,

Republic of Dagestan

New “foreign agents,” confiscation of a phone for displaying the Instagram logo, and censorship of letters. Political pressure news

27.05.2026

Sentence for a hookah on a kulich, shaman Gabyshev’s health, and a fine for “Takie Dela”: political crackdown news

26.05.2026

Irkutsk Oblast,

Chelyabinsk Oblast

Sentence for the mathematician, transfer from PKT to punitive isolation cell, and new measures for emigrants: News on political repression

25.05.2026

Primorsky Krai,

Saint Petersburg,

Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

New case against Astra’s founder, a picket outside the Kremlin, and suspended sentence for a believer: Political repression news