Week-ending 24 December 2021 The aircraft involved, 9M-MRD, pictured in 2011 by Alan Wilson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons On 22 December 2021 Dutch prosecutors requested life sentences for…
Week-ending 17 December 2021 On 15 December 2021 a court in Yessentuki sentenced seven Ingush protest leaders to terms of imprisonment of between seven and a half and nine years.…
Week-ending 10 December 2021 Anastasia Baburova Stanislav Markelov On 8 December 2021 the Russian Supreme Court quashed the convictions of Nikita Tikhonov and Evgenia Khasis handed down in 2011 for…
Week-ending 3 December 2021 Eight political activists are on trial or awaiting trial in Ingushetia (Southern Russia) for leading a peaceful protest campaign in 2018 and 2019. They are facing…
Week-ending 26 November 2021 On 22 November 2021 a court in Vladivostok acquitted Dmitry Barmakin, a Jehovah's Witness, of charges of extremism in the first such acquittal for a member…
Week-ending 19 November 2021 On 17 November 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov and the newspaper of which he is chief editor, Novaya gazeta, were fined for failing to…
Week-ending 12 November 2021 teamchanysheva / facebook via The Moscow Times This week Liliya Chanysheva, who used to head the support group for Aleksei Navalny in the Bashkortostan region, was…
Week-ending 5 November 2021 On 2 November 2021 it became known that Ivan Safronov, held on remand on charges of high treason, has been charged additionally with passing classified information…
Week-ending 29 October 2021 The Russian Interior Ministry issued the arrest warrant for Syarhey Savelyeu on October 23 without specifying the crime that he is accused of [Source: RFE/RL]. On…
Week-ending 22 October 2021 Photo: VL.RU Larisa Krivonosova, an actress who took part in a video satirizing the police, has been sentenced to three months in jail. Initially she was…