Week-ending 15 November 2024
Russia’s War against Ukraine
Nadezhda Buyanova, an elderly Moscow paediatrician, has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison after the mother of one of her patients publicly denounced her for comments she allegedly made about Russian soldiers in Ukraine. (The Guardian, 12/11/24)
A court in Yekaterinburg upheld the 12-year prison sentence for U.S.-Russian citizen Ksenia Karelina for treason for transferring $51 to a Ukrainian aid charity. (RFE/RL, 12/11/24)
Dozens of refugees who fled from Ukraine’s cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk region staged a protest in the regional capital of Kursk. (The Moscow Times, 10/11/24, 14/11/24)
Ukrainian activists disrupted a speech by Yulia Navalnaya in Lisbon shouting “Stop the war” before Navalnaya said she opposes the war. (RFE/RL, 12/11/24)
Alexei Zimin, an outspoken anti-war Russian TV chef who lived in exile in London has been found dead at 52 in a hotel room in Belgrade. (The Standard, 13/11/24)
Moscow residents who have failed to show up at military registration and enlistment offices after they received summonses have been banned from leaving Russia. (RFE/RL, 13/11/24)
President Putin signed a decree revising compensation for injured soldiers, basing payouts on the severity of injuries rather than providing a flat payment.(The Moscow Times, 13/11/24)
More than a dozen wounded Russian contract soldiers who had fought in Ukraine fled a military unit near the city of Novosibirsk. (RFE/RL, 14/11/24)
A court sentenced Sergei Andreyev to 24 years’ imprisonment on “treason” and “terrorism” charges for attempted arsons of an enlistment office. (The Moscow Times, 14/11/24)
Theater director Anastasia Berezhinskaya has been sentenced to 8 years in prison by a court in Moscow over her anti-war and anti-Putin posts on VKontakte in 2022. (RFE/RL, 14/11/24)
Other news
Journalist Dmitry Treshchanin, blogger Tumso Abdurahmanov, comedian Denis Alesin (aka Denis Chuzhoi) were designated ‘foreign agents.’ (RFE/RL, The Moscow Times, 8/11/24)
Russia’s State Duma passed a bill in second and third readings that would ban “childfree propaganda.” (RFE/RL, 12/11/24)
A court in Bashkortostan fined school director Svetlana Khakimova 2,000 rubles for keeping the book Hidden History of Tatars in her school’s library. (RFE/RL, 12/11/24)
Investigators in Chechnya launched a new probe for “attacking a guard” and “disrupting” order in the prison against Zarema Musayeva. (RFE/RL, 12/11/24)
A court granted the “immediate” release of ethnic Bashkir activist Rustem Mulyukov on to his deteriorating health. Previous requests for release were rejected. (RFE/RL, 12/11/24)
A Moscow court has issued an arrest warrant for International Criminal Court (ICC) Judge Haykel Ben Mahfoudh on a charge of “illegal incarceration.” (RFE/RL, 12/11/24)
A court ordered the arrest in absentia of International Criminal Court (ICC) Judge Reine Alapini-Gansou on charges of “unlawful detention.” (The Moscow Times, 13/11/24)
Moscow’s Gulag History Museum announced its surprise closure, a move critics attribute to the Kremlin’s efforts to whitewash Russia’s Soviet past. (The Guardian, 14/11/24)
Foreigners arriving in Russia through four Moscow airports and a land border checkpoint must submit photos and fingerprints from next month. (The Moscow Times, 14/11/24)
U.S. technology giant Apple has notified RFE/RL that it has removed several of its apps following a request from Russia’s media regulator, Roskomnadzor. (RFE/RL, 15/11/24)
