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Comprehensive archive of political persecution: 46 individuals fighting for freedom and justice
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Vladimir Efimov
Vladimir Efimov, a journalist and politician, was sentenced to two years in a penal colony for discrediting the Russian ...
Nika Aleksandrovna Novak
Nika Novak, a journalist and poet, was sentenced to 4 years in prison for allegedly cooperating with a foreign state. Th...
Sergey Sergeevich Mikhailov
Sergey Mikhailov, founder of the opposition newspaper "Listok," was sentenced to 8 years for disseminating false informa...
Mandrygina (Shelkovnikova) Evgeniya Mikhailovna
Evgeniya Mandrygina, a journalist from Krasnoyarsk, was sentenced to 3 years of forced labor for allegedly using violenc...
Artyom Pavlovich Kriger
Artyom Kriger, a journalist for SOTAvision, was sentenced to 5 years and 6 months in a general regime colony for partici...
Antonina Yuryevna Kravtsova (Favorskaya)
Antonina Kravtsova (Favorskaya), a journalist with SOTAvision, was sentenced to 5 years and 6 months in a general regime...
Sergei Arkadevich Kornilevsky
Sergei Kornilevsky, a journalist from Birobidzhan, was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months for a comment on Telegram that ...
Olga Yuryevna Komleva
Olga Komleva, a journalist for RusNews from Ufa, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for participating in an extremist c...
Katelevsky Yan Nikolaevich
Yan Katelevsky, a blogger and journalist from the Moscow region, was sentenced to 9 years and 6 months in a strict regim...
Sergei Valentinovich Karelin
Sergei Karelin, a video operator and journalist who collaborated with Associated Press and Deutsche Welle, was sentenced...
Boris Yulievich Kagarlitsky
Boris Kagarlitsky, a sociologist and left-wing political commentator, was initially fined 600,000 rubles for a Telegram ...
Roman Viktorovich Ivanov
Roman Ivanov, a journalist for RusNews and author of the 'Honest Korolyov!' protest page, was sentenced to 7 years for s...
Valery Badmaev
Valery Badmaev, a journalist, was prosecuted for reposting a video on VKontakte about the events in Mariupol, specifical...
Sergei Erzhenkov
Sergei Erzhenkov, a journalist, was convicted of vandalism for filming an anti-Putin inscription on a Lenin monument. He...
Sergey Nosov
Sergey Nosov, a journalist, is accused of spreading false information about the Russian Armed Forces through his Telegra...
Andrey Soldatov
Andrey Soldatov, a journalist, is accused of spreading false information about the Russian Armed Forces based on a YouTu...
Dmitry Ivanov
Dmitry Ivanov, a YouTube blogger, was sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison for spreading 'fake news' about the...
Christo Grozev
Christo Grozev, a journalist involved in investigations into Russian government activities, is accused of helping someon...
Andrey Novashov
Andrey Novashov, a journalist, was convicted for spreading false information about the Russian Armed Forces. He publishe...
Isabella Yevloeva
Isabella Yevloeva, a journalist, is facing criminal charges for publications about Ingush residents who were captured or...
Alexander Nevzorov
Alexander Nevzorov, a journalist and YouTuber, was sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison for publishing "fake" ...
Evgeny Domozhirov
Evgeny Domozhirov, a journalist and politician, is being prosecuted for allegedly spreading false information about the ...
Michael Nucky
Michael Nucky, a journalist, was sentenced in absentia to 11 years for spreading false information about the Russian Arm...
Ruslan Leviev (Karpuk)
Ruslan Leviev, a journalist, was sentenced in absentia to 11 years in prison for spreading "fakes" about the Russian Arm...