Write to Russia – List of Political Prisoners / Prisoners of Conscience
Below is a list of persons unjustly imprisoned by Russia whose plight our project has so far highlighted. Updates are in bold. Each week we add at least one new…
Rights in Russia Update
2 October 2026 https://www.rightsinrussia.org/write-to-russia-153/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/news-of-the-week-149/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/podcast-101/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/donate-support-us/
News of the Week
Week-ending 2 October 2026 Russia’s War against Ukraine Russian-occupied Oleshky, across the Dnipro River from the southern city of Kherson, has become “a hell on earth”, according to Ukrainians familiar…
Podcast Then & Now #43: Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Linor Goralik
1 October 2026 by Teresa Cherfas Welcome to the 43rd edition of the Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas Linor Goralik Today our guest is the poet,…
Write to Russia: Sergei Strambovsky, a Ukrainian citizen from occupied Donetsk unlawfully sentenced to a term of imprisonment by Russian authorities
‘On 12 October 2022, the UN General Assembly condemned attempts to annex the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions of Ukraine. The relevant resolution was supported by 143 of the…
Rights in Russia Update
25 September 2026 https://www.rightsinrussia.org/write-to-russia-152/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/list-of-prisoners/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/news-of-the-week-148/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/guillaume/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/donate-support-us/
News of the Week
Week-ending 25 September 2026 Russia’s War against Ukraine Amid rumors of a new mobilization, senior Russian officials have spent recent months trying to open accounts at foreign banks and move their assets abroad. (Meduza,…
Laura Guillaume reviews ‘Pushkin Hills’ by Sergei Dovlatov
24 September 2026 by Laura Guillaume Sergei Dovlatov, Pushkin Hills, translated by Katherine Dovlatov, Alma Classics, London, 2013, 160pp, ISBN: 9781847492210, Paperback £7.19.2013] Referring to an author as ‘underappreciated’ or…
Write to Russia: Natalya Yakimova, sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for reposting social media posts about Russian war crimes in Bucha
‘Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation is, in principle, unlawful, was created to carry out political repression against critics of the authorities, and must be repealed.…
Rights in Russia Update
18 September 2026 https://www.rightsinrussia.org/write-to-russia-151/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/news-of-the-week-147/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/babii/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/chandler/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/dewhirst-33/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/cherfas-26/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/donate-support-us/
News of the Week
Week-ending 18 September 2026 Russia’s War against Ukraine The one-and-a-half-year-old daughter of Alexandra Strilets, a Crimean woman convicted by Russia of treason a year ago, has died. (Meduza, 11/9/26) Irkutsk region has introduced a record-high…
