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Read more about the article Russian prisons and penal colonies encounter staffing shortage. Why are guards quitting en masse, and who is going to guard the prisoners? [Lenta.ru]

Russian prisons and penal colonies encounter staffing shortage. Why are guards quitting en masse, and who is going to guard the prisoners? [Lenta.ru]

22 October 2025 Lenta.ru: Criminal element trying to destabilize the situation in Russia’s penal colonies by Igor Nadezhdin Source: Lenta.ru The staffing shortage in Russian penal colonies and prisons has…

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Read more about the article Anna Karetnikova: Resuscitation measures are always carried out. Even when there is obviously no benefit to the deceased.

Anna Karetnikova: Resuscitation measures are always carried out. Even when there is obviously no benefit to the deceased.

18 February 2024 Anna Karetnikova Source: Facebook I was thinking that maybe (just maybe) it is not the best idea to collect signatures for the relatives to be given the…

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Read more about the article Anna Karetnikova: ‘They’re going to write Pulmonary Embolism anyway’

Anna Karetnikova: ‘They’re going to write Pulmonary Embolism anyway’

16 February 2024 Source: Facebook PE (pulmonary embolism) is the name of a disease that at least prison medics use in a kind of, well, somewhat figurative, general sense. It…

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Read more about the article “A sense of utter despair”. What is Penal Colony IK-3, where Aleksei Navalny died, like? 

“A sense of utter despair”. What is Penal Colony IK-3, where Aleksei Navalny died, like? 

Aleksei Navalny 16 February 2024 by Aleksei Yablokov Source: Spektr.press On 25 December 2023, Aleksei Navalny’s press-secretary, Kira Yarmush, said on X that the politician and activist had been sent to the…

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Read more about the article Federal Penitentiary Service announces new rules for defence of human rights: members of Public Oversight Commissions to become mere onlookers

Federal Penitentiary Service announces new rules for defence of human rights: members of Public Oversight Commissions to become mere onlookers

4 June 2023 by Ekaterina Trifonova  Source: Nezavisimaya gazeta The Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia [FPS] has established a procedure whereby members of Public Oversight Commissions (POCs) may visit penal…

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Read more about the article Russia plans to build multi-purpose prison camp settlements. Commentaries by Ilya Shablinsky, Valery Borshchev and Sergei Pashin [Argumenty i fakty]

Russia plans to build multi-purpose prison camp settlements. Commentaries by Ilya Shablinsky, Valery Borshchev and Sergei Pashin [Argumenty i fakty]

14 October 2022 Sergei Pashin (pictured left) says: 'This is a bad kind of 'unification,' when innocent people, who are only under detention to await trial, are lumped in together…

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Read more about the article Irina Biriukova on torture in Russian prison colonies: ‘Any complaint provokes extraordinary resistance’

Irina Biriukova on torture in Russian prison colonies: ‘Any complaint provokes extraordinary resistance’

28 November 2022 Irina Biriukova, a lawyer with the Public Verdict Foundation and laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group’s human rights award, in conversation with Katya Orlova of Novaya gazeta…

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Read more about the article Eva Merkacheva: Dismantling the Public Oversight Commissions – Torture’s supporters are now the public defenders

Eva Merkacheva: Dismantling the Public Oversight Commissions – Torture’s supporters are now the public defenders

28 September 2022 by Eva Merkacheva, MK correspondent, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group prize Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: MK] After facts of torture in the Saratov prison tuberculosis…

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Read more about the article Leonid Gozman: If they release me after 15 days, I would prefer leaving the country to death

Leonid Gozman: If they release me after 15 days, I would prefer leaving the country to death

9 September 2022 Leonid Gozman in conversation with Vera Chelishcheva Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source:  Novaya Gazeta] A difficult conversation through prison bars with Leonid Gozman—about his first experience…

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