Anna Karetnikova: An endless Groundhog Day with no exit in sight
28 - 30 April 2026 by Anna Karetnikova Source: Facebook 28 April 2026 My birthday, which is today, has always been for me a kind of gateway from spring to…
Anna Karetnikova: This could just as easily be 1937
11 – 20 April 2026 by Anna Karetnikova Source: Facebook 11 April 2026 The pink and white spring of France's Grand Est is being replaced by a lilac-green one. The…
Anna Karetnikova: ‘Everything is tediously predictable’ – On minors, Mikhail Kriger and prison officers
21 October 2025 by Anna Karetnikova Source: Facebook Somehow everything has become tediously predictable. An excellent new bill that is bound to pass! A bill to defend Russia’s citizens against…
Anna Karetnikova: ‘More than 3,500 former and current FSIN employees have taken part in military action in Ukraine’ [Kommersant]
25 September 2025 by Anna Karetnikova Source: Facebook The FSIN [Federal Penitentiary Service] deputy director talked about how in several regions the staffing shortage in the UIS [criminal correctional system]…
Anna Karetnikova: ‘I am a Prison Officer’
30 June - 1 July 2025 by Anna Karetnikova Source: Facebook 30 June 2025 Now everyone who wants to read and help can buy my book, Я - сотрудница ФСИН…
Aleksandr Podrabinek: The Jailers’ Image. On Jewellery and Erotica
10 May 2025 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Slovo zashchite The prison service loves to present a positive image of itself. So that everyone believes honourable and decent people work there…
Anna Karetnikova: On the world behind bars
21 - 25 March 2025 by Anna Karetnikova Source: Facebook 21 March 2025 The historian Aleksandr Skobov was handed a 16-year prison sentence. Source: Facebook 22 March 2025 Well, for…
Anna Karetnikova: On the prisoner escape from Lipetsk penal colony
27 October 2024 by Anna Karetnikova Source: Facebook As in the case of the bribe at Black Dolphin strict regime penal colony, the media comments about the escape from the…
