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Comprehensive archive of political persecution: 362 individuals fighting for freedom and justice
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Alekseev Andrey Igorevich
Andrey Alekseev, a conscript, was sentenced to 7 years for allegedly attempting to set fire to a military enlistment off...
Belousova Marina Genrikhovna
Marina Belousova, a 61-year-old resident of Primorsk, Zaporozhye Oblast, was sentenced to 12 years and 6 months in priso...
Zaur Ismailov, MMA fighter
MMA fighter Zaur Ismailov was detained and placed in pre-trial detention for allegedly desecrating a monument to veteran...
Leonid Kats, graduate of the Higher School of Economics
Leonid Kats, a 22-year-old graduate of the Higher School of Economics, was arrested on charges of treason for donating t...
Mikhail Loshchinin
Mikhail Loshchinin, a 48-year-old with Russian and Belgian citizenship, was arrested at the Latvian-Russian border and c...
Resident of Krasnodar Krai
A 37-year-old woman from Krasnodar Krai was arrested on suspicion of state treason for transferring money to a person in...
Leonid Kats
Leonid Kats, a 22-year-old electrician and graduate of the Higher School of Economics, was arrested in Moscow on state t...
Valery Nikolaevich Kotovich
Valery Kotovich, a colonel in the National Guard, was sentenced to 6 years in a general regime colony for spreading fals...
Stephen James Hubbard
Stephen James Hubbard, a US citizen and English teacher, was captured by Russian forces in Izium in April 2022. He is ac...
Elena Viktorovna Karaniku
Elena Karaniku was searched in Khabarovsk on January 4, 2025, and accused of confidential cooperation with a foreign sta...
Daniil Vladimirovich Klyuka
Daniil Klyuka, a drawing teacher from Lipetsk, was charged on February 10, 2023, with "facilitating terrorist activities...
Alexander Viktorovich Tsilyk
Alexander Tsilyk, a Ukrainian entrepreneur, was detained in October 2021 while crossing the border into Russia. He was d...
Semyon Alekseevich Koshevoy
Semyon Koshevoy, a student from the Tver region, was detained in Belgorod in March 2023. He was initially arrested twice...
Vladimir Valeryevich Shafirov
Vladimir Shafirov, a blogger from Buryatia, is facing criminal charges for allegedly making calls to terrorism in Decemb...
Evgeny Borisovich Gorin
Evgeny Gorin, a Ukrainian citizen and senior soldier of the 73rd Maritime Center of the Special Operations Forces of the...
Anna Georgievna Bilega
Anna Bilega, a journalist for the newspaper "Uglegorskiye Novosti," was searched in Shakhtyorsk, Sakhalin Oblast, in Feb...
Ivan Grigoryevich Zabavsky
Ivan Zabavsky, a Ukrainian citizen, disappeared in the occupied Kharkov region in September 2022. He traveled to his nat...
Vladimir Vladimirovich Timofeev
Vladimir Timofeev, a veteran of the Afghan and Chechen wars and a left-wing activist and blogger from Irkutsk, was accus...
Victoria Georgievna Kosheleva
Victoria Kosheleva was charged in Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, no later than October 2024, with financing an undesirable organ...
Ilya Sergeyevich Barshchivets
Ilya Barshchivets was detained in Armyansk, annexed Crimea, on April 4, 2025. He is accused of treason for allegedly com...
Roman Yuryevich Lozovoy
Roman Lozovoy is accused of attempting to set fire to a military enlistment office in Artem, Primorsky Krai, in the earl...
Nikolai Alexandrovich Tesla
Nikolai Tesla, a Ukrainian citizen and junior sergeant in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, was captured during fighting in th...
Yuri Sergeyevich Lapteykin
Yuri Lapteykin was detained in Rubtsovsk, Altai Krai on September 12, 2024. He is charged with public justification and ...
Evgeny Vyacheslavovich Bondarenko
Evgeny Bondarenko, a Ukrainian native, was arrested in the Tula region no later than November 2023 and charged with high...