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Comprehensive archive of political persecution: 280 individuals fighting for freedom and justice
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Piruz Peikrishvili
Piruz Peikrishvili, a driver and USSR citizen, was initially given a suspended sentence for discrediting the Russian Arm...
Denis Soldatov
Denis Soldatov, a former member of the Gulagunet human rights project, was arrested for 15 days in Moscow for displaying...
Igor Orzhevsky
Igor Orzhevsky, a blogger from Moscow, is being prosecuted for spreading military "fakes", inciting hatred, and publicly...
Vladimir Efimov
Vladimir Efimov, a journalist and politician, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for discrediting the Russian Arme...
Vasily Kuchin
Vasily Kuchin was fined 100,000 rubles for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces in a VKontakte video criticizing the wa...
Russian who returned from abroad sent to pre-trial detention center for supporting RDK
Roman Zavodsky, a 33-year-old resident of Novosibirsk, was detained on charges of justifying terrorism. The FSB claims h...
Khristoliub Bozhii Vegan
Khristoliub Vegan, a blogger from Voronezh, was sentenced to 3 years in a penal colony for a video deemed to rehabilitat...
Dmitriy Romanov
Dmitry Romanov, a resident of Togliatti, was fined for public justification of terrorism and repeated demonstration of p...
Yulia Semenova (Belosliudtseva)
Yulia Semenova (Belosliudtseva) was initially given a suspended sentence of 2.5 years for discrediting the Russian Armed...
Dmitry Zubkov
Dmitry Zubkov was sentenced to 1.5 years in a penal colony settlement for comments in a Telegram group "containing calls...
Yuri Blagodarov
Yuri Blagodarov was fined 400,000 rubles for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces and incitement of hatred, related to ...
Vitaliy Tkachenko
Vitaliy Tkachenko was sentenced to two years in a general regime colony for making comments calling for the destruction ...
Jamil Nurakov
Jamil Nurakov was sentenced to 1.5 years in a colony-settlement for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces due to comment...
Roman Tyurin
Roman Tyurin was convicted for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces and other charges due to his online activity. He wa...
Sergey Soloviev
Sergey Soloviev was sentenced to two years in a penal colony for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces. The case stemmed...
Olga Kozlova
Olga Kozlova was fined for publicly justifying terrorism. The case stemmed from a Telegram comment about the Freedom of ...
Sergey Chadaev
Sergey Chadaev was fined 100,000 rubles for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces. The charge stemmed from a comment he ...
Igor Nazarov
Igor Nazarov is being prosecuted for spreading false information about the Russian Armed Forces in Yakutsk. Similar to D...
Unknown female
An unnamed female from Chelyabinsk was sentenced to two years' suspended imprisonment for calls to extremism. The charge...
Andriy Mironenko
Andriy Mironenko from Arkhangelsk, was fined 100,000 rubles for repeatedly discrediting the Russian Armed Forces through...
Natalia Podolyak
Natalia Podolyak, a teacher from Krasnoyarsk, was fined 100,000 rubles for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces based o...
Roman Losyakin
Roman Losyakin was sentenced in absentia to 6 years imprisonment for spreading false information about the Russian Armed...
Unknown male 88
An unknown male from Omsk was fined 350,000 rubles for publicly justifying terrorism due to a social media post praising...
Irina Nippolainen
Irina Nippolainen, a resident of Segezha, Karelia, is facing a criminal case for disseminating false information about t...