Canadian Activist Asks for Help in Letter from Russian PrisonCanadian activist releases letter from Russian prison--A Greenpeace activist into his fifth week...Banerjee, Sidhartha
Arrested in 1849 for belonging to a literary group that discussed banned books critical of Tsarist Russia, he was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted at the last moment. He spent four years in a Siberian prison camp, followed by six years of compulsory military service in exile...
They sense their own political inferiority, especially amidst what has happened in Russia to those who stayed, to those who have been resisting and are now in prison. To prove to themselves and others their insightfulness and to confirm the correctness of their choice to emigrate, they portray...
“We have come out today in downtown Petersburg to draw attention to a problem that the government has tried to hush up,” activist Marina Ken told Gorod 812.“We want to give people the chance to find out what has been happening in Ingushetia. The decision to redraw the borders was ...
We cannot rule out the possibility that Prigozhin and Putin made a deal and that Yevgeny Viktorovich will be the Kremlin’s secret weapon. I’m joking on this point, of course. But Russian realities are such that a man dies he shakes off all the bad stuff that happened in his life,...
Ivan Astashin, a human rights activist with the project Solidarity Zone and a former political prisoner himself, and two mothers whose sons have been convicted of “terrorism” by the Russian authorities helped us to answer those questions. Cast of characters: Anna, Nikita Uvarov’s mother. ...
When Rudomakha attempted to get up, the officer holding the activist pepper-sprayed him in the face. Enemies of the State This was the fifth search at EcoWatch in less than three years, and the second in the last four months. “That morning, I was supposed to go to court in Maykop ...
A local grassroots activist, Belova campaigned against thecancellation of direct bus servicefrom Voronezh to Novaya Usman [in the summer of 2019], collecting signatures at people’s gatherings. In this regard, complaints were filed against her, alleging that she was organizing riots. Belova was als...
(at the bottom of the screenshot, above) informed Chikov’s readers that Agora attorney Leonid Solovyov was on his way to the apartment of activist, artist andMediazonapublisher Pyotr Verzilov, which was being searched by police and security forces for the sixth (!) time in recent weeks...
of two sphinxes, situated directly opposite the old Crosses Prison. Russian Socialist Movement (RSD) activistIvan Ovsyannikovspoke about the frame-up known asthe Network case, thetortureemployed by officers of the Russian Interior Ministry and the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service, and Stanislav ...