23 November – 8 December 2025
by Sergei Davidis
23 November 2025
On Friday and Saturday I was at the traditional Strana i Mir [The Country and the World] conference in Berlin.
A rare opportunity to gather in one place for a short time and dissect the views of leading experts on the situation in Russia and the surrounding countries.
I don’t count myself as a leading expert, but I was on at the end of the fourth panel to discuss the situation with regard to political repression over the course of the year.
I have put the link here.
Source: Facebook
26 November 2025
Tomorrow a military court will pronounce its verdict on the appeal against the decision made on 19 August in which I, in absentia, was found guilty of ‘promoting terrorism’ for publishing an article online about Ukrainian POWs who had been declared political prisoners.
Of course I am guilty of no such thing, and the verdict against me contradicts legal norms as well as facts.
Unfortunately, the reality of modern-day Russia leaves no doubt that an absurd, wrongful verdict will always be upheld by the court of appeals and put into effect.
I do not accept this verdict and will change neither any views I have made public, nor my activities in the defence of human rights.
Commitment to democracy and human rights is independent of directives given by those in power, even if those directives come in the form of an unjust verdict given by a body pretending to be a court.
Nevertheless, since the draconian legislation of Russia’s ruling dictatorship in practice supports the principle of collective responsibility among the members of a given organisation, I hereby announce my resignation from the Council of the Memorial Human Rights Centre, and lay down my responsibilities as a co-chair of the same.
Source: Facebook
26 November 2025
We call for the release of Russian POWs and political prisoners to be included in any agreement to end the conflict started by our country’s aggression against Ukraine.
See here
Source: Facebook
28 November 2025
This is surprising. I am not at all surprised that the Kremlin lovers in law enforcement approve of the life sentences handed to the innocent people convicted of bombing the Crimea Bridge in 2022, but I was surprised by the many cannibals who said that they deserved this sentence simply for transporting cargo into Crimea.
(Crimea is unquestionably Ukrainian territory, occupied and annexed by Russia more than ten years ago. But this does not make these peoples’ prosecution justified or justifiable even under Ukrainian law, never mind the automatic life sentences handed out for terror offences in Russia.)
See here
Source: Facebook
2 December 2025
Our investigations of politically motivated criminal prosecutions give us lots of examples of obvious, or highly likely, cases of entrapment: cases where something the Russian authorities consider to be a crime was the result of deliberate and inflammatory actions by the authorities.
We have documented more than thirty such cases in our new publication: The FSB Conveyer Belt. Useful and informative work, it would seem.
Source: Facebook
8 December 2025
I should not be surprised by this, of course, but I am anyway.
Russia’s successors to Goebbels (as well as Hitler and Himmler) are staging a reenactment of the Nuremberg trials.
A negative, cynical and dishonest farce.
Source: Facebook
Translated by Oscar Seecharan
