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The Moscow Military Court on Wednesday sentenced in absentia Leonid Volkov, an ally of Alexey Navalny and a former leader of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, to 18 years of imprisonment and a fine of 2 million rubles (approximately $25,000). The charges against him included 18 charges of spreading military “fakes,” 16 charges of justifying terrorism on [...]

A Moscow military court on Tuesday sentenced an ex-policeman to 14 years of imprisonment and a fine of 250,000 rubles (approximately $3,000) for alleged anti-war graffiti and communications with Freedom of Russia Legion (FRL). Konstantin Podoshvelev was arrested February 2024 under the charges of vandalism and damage of religious objects for allegedly writing “Polytech is [...]

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office on Monday categorized Amnesty International as an “undesirable” organization. The Prosecutor General’s Office released a statement claiming that Amnesty International Limited is central to global “Russophobic” projects. Russia also maintains that this international non-governmental organization is funded by “accomplices” of the Ukrainian government. Russian officials allege that Amnesty International acts [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday called for the immediate release of Russian journalist Veronika Orlova, who was sentenced to 13 days of administrative detention after filming the aftermath of an anti-Putin protest in Moscow earlier this week. Orlova, a reporter for independent outlet SOTAvision, was arrested Tuesday near Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, where [...]

Russian online media RusNews revealed Wednesday two letters from an imprisoned journalist and anti-war activist, Maria Ponomarenko, which demonstrate her current suicidal tendency. Amnesty International urged the authorities to protect her from further self-harm and release her immediately. RusNews stated that the Russian authorities censored the letters, which indicated her suffering in prison and asked [...]

Amnesty International condemned the Russian government on Sunday for its failure to answer questions about opposition politician Alexei Navalny’s death on the first anniversary of the anti-corruption activist’s demise. On February 16, 2024, the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) reported that Nalvany lost consciousness in the yard of the penal colony where authorities had transferred [...]

Amnesty International on Friday condemned a Russian court’s sentencing of three lawyers for aiding the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), calling the decision “shameful.” Amnesty International’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia director Marie Struthers stated: The prosecution and sentencing of Vadim Kobzev, Aleksei Liptser and Igor Sergunin is a shameful attempt to [...]

Exactly three years ago, I came back to Russia after treatment following my poisoning. I was arrested at the airport. And for three years, I’ve been in prison. And for three years I’ve been answering the same question. Prisoners ask it simply and directly. Prison officials inquire about it cautiously, with the recorders turned off. [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued a judgment on Tuesday, ruling that Russia violated the right to free elections under Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights (Convention) by preventing an opposition politician from running in the lower house of the Russian Federal Assembly. While Russian opposition [...]

Mykyta Vorobiov, Senior Editor for Long Form Content at JURIST, is a Ukrainian-born political analyst, journalist, and political science student at Bard College, Berlin. On a sunny Wednesday evening earlier this month, one of the most famous Russian opposition leaders, Ilya Yashin, who was locked in a Russian jail after April 2022 for his anti-war position, [...]