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Russian actor sentenced to 3.5 years in prison, after National Guard officer dislocates shoulder while arresting him at protest

Moscow Tverskoy District Court Judge Alexey Krivoruchko has sentenced Pavel Ustinov, a young up-and-coming actor, to 3.5 years in prison…

5 years ago

Political prisoners: events in Warsaw

Russian political prisoners in 2019 and the role for the OSCE Convenor: Human Rights Center "Memorial" Working language: English, Russian 19 September, 08:15-09:45…

5 years ago

Russia has started enforcing its ban on ‘fake news.’ The first suspect? A woman protesting landfill pollution

Russian officials in Arkhangelsk have filed the country’s first police report against an individual for spreading illegal “fake news.” According…

6 years ago

16-year-old Crimean Tatar sentenced for removing 3 Russian flags in occupied Crimea

16-year-old Abduraman Abduveliev has received a 6-month restricted liberty sentence for taking down three Russian flags in the village of…

6 years ago

Oleg Sentsov’s will was published during his hunger strike

The film director's sister, Natalya Kaplan, has released a will drawn up by her brother during his hunger strike in…

6 years ago

Sentsov won the Polish prize called Pro Dignitate Humana

Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, won the Polish prize Pro Dignitate Humana. This was announced on October 23 by the Polish…

6 years ago

The court in Crimea left the defendants of the ” Vedzhie Kashka case” under arrest

The Kremlin's Supreme Court, controlled by the Kremlin, dismissed an appeal by lawyers to extend the preventive measure to the…

6 years ago

The Act on Fees for a peaceful assembly will increase pressure on the Crimean people

Alexander Sedov, an expert of the Crimean human rights' group, believes that supplementing the Russian Code of Administrative Offenses with…

6 years ago

The employee of Amnesty International was kidnapped and was beaten in Ingushetia

In Ingushetia, an Amnesty International researcher Oleg Kozlovsky was kidnapped. He was monitoring the protests against the transfer of the…

6 years ago

The details of the morning search in Belogorsk became known

Employees of the Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS) on the morning of October 11 carried out investigative activities in a…

6 years ago