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Electric shock torture and a meeting with Victoria Roshchyna. What Ukrainian journalist Iryna Levchenko told the court in the Kapralov family case

This week, the Russia’s Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don handed down its verdict on Gennady and Olha ...
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Supreme Court, arrest, emigration. A Moscow couple came out to support Yabloko, survived torture, and fled Russia

In early September, Moscow activists Daria Bunkova and Nabi Balabekov fled Russia after being arrested over an “unauthorized ...
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Lights out. Head of Russia’s leading children’s hospice Lighthouse arrested over 2023 post mourning Ukrainian civilian deaths

Lida Moniava, the director of the prominent children’s hospice Lighthouse (“Dom s Mayakom”), was detained in Moscow under the ...
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State of the art. A St. Petersburg court has fined Russia’s first “foreign agent” after she transformed her mandatory reports into DIY anti‑war statements

A judge in St Petersburg has fined feminist activist and artist Daria Apakhonchich 150,000 roubles (about $1,740) for ...
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Mediazona is 12. We would not have made it to this day without you

It’s unbelievable, but Mediazona is celebrating its 12th birthday. For over a decade, we have fought to report the truth about Russia. It has often seemed as though things were only getting worse; we ...
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The transporter. A Russian officer recounts the harrowing experience of delivering KIA soldiers’ bodies to their families

What it’s like: to bring coffins with bodies of dead soldiers to their mothers and widows? A Russian officer shares a poignant account of his three-month mission in Zabaikalsky krai, a remote area in ...
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15 years for a warrant. Moscow court sentences International Criminal Court leadership to prison in absentia for “illegal prosecution” of Vladimir Putin

International Criminal Court building in The Hague. Photo: Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons The Moscow City Court has announced the sentencing of eight judges and the prosecutor of the ...
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Search and be fined. New Russian law targets VPN usage and mere access (!) to “extremist” content

Russia’s State Duma has advanced new legislation that would introduce fines for searching prohibited material online, including when using VPNs. Until now, even amid sweeping crackdowns on internet ...