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Moscow Judge Tosses WhatsApp Users’ Class Action Lawsuit Against Roskomnadzor

A group of WhatsApp and Telegram users filed the lawsuit earlier this month in response to call restrictions on both apps.

Moscow Court Jails Ex-Foreign Ministry Employee for Passing Classified Information to U.S.

Arseniy Konovalov was arrested in March 2024 on suspicion of providing classified information to American intelligence in exchange for money during his...

Ex-Kursk Lawmaker Jailed 5.5 Years for Border Defense Embezzlement

Vasilyev is among at least 11 officials and business executives implicated in related cases after Ukrainian forces captured large swaths of Kursk region...

Meduza Publisher Galina Timchenko Jailed 5 Years in Absentia

Timchenko was found guilty of running an “undesirable” organization, a status assigned to Meduza in 2023.

Leftist Activist Sergei Udaltsov Jailed 6 Years for ‘Justifying Terrorism’

Udaltsov said he would appeal the ruling and announced a hunger strike after his sentence was read out.

Moscow Animal Rights Activist Sentenced to 15 Years on Treason Charges

Prosecutors said Yevgenia Konforkina filmed a helicopter production facility and sent the footage to an anti-Kremlin paramilitary group based in Ukraine...

Moscow Court Seizes Chubais’ Assets in Rosnano Case

Chubais and other former managers at Rosnano are accused of making “unreasonable and irresponsible” decisions in a failed memory chip project.

Telegram and WhatsApp Users File Class-Action Lawsuit Against Roskomnadzor

The 42 plaintiffs argue that state restrictions on the two messaging apps violate their constitutional rights.

Prisoners’ Rights Activist Arrested in Yekaterinburg and Charged With Treason

Alexei Sokolov told reporters that Russian authorities accuse him of sharing information about prison abuse with “foreign organizations.”

Yekaterinburg Court Jails 5 Leftist Activists Over Alleged Coup Attempt

The group of men, who were all members of a Marxist discussion club, were arrested in the Bashkortostan capital of Ufa in March 2022.

Court in Occupied Donetsk Jails Russian Soldiers in Killing of American Fighter

Four Russian soldiers were found guilty of torturing and killing Russell Bentley, a self-described communist known by the nickname “Texas.”

Shlosberg Charged With Spreading ‘Fakes’ About Russian Army

The charge, the third brought against Lev Shlosberg this year, was announced three days before he was due to be released from house arrest.

Defense Ministry Found Liable for Deadly Fighter Jet Crash in Krasnodar Region

The case was brought by the relatives of an elderly woman who died when a Su-34 fighter-bomber slammed into an apartment building in the port town of Yeysk...

Moscow Scientist Sentenced to 21 Years in Prison on Treason Charges

Artyom Khoroshilov was arrested in December 2023 on accusations of carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on critical infrastructure...

American Jailed for Assaulting Russian Police Officer Handed New 8-Year Prison Sentence

Former U.S. Marine and English teacher Robert Gilman was found guilty of attacking a guard at the prison where he is currently being held.

Ex-Khabarovsk Governor Furgal Given Additional 23-Year Prison Sentence

The judge issued a combined sentence of 25 years in a maximum-security prison by merging the new term with Sergei Furgal’s previous conviction.

Moscow Graduate Arrested on Treason Charges After ‘Carousel Arrests’

Leonid Katz, a 22-year-old graduate of the Higher School of Economics, had been subjected to four consecutive administrative arrests since early October...

Vice President of Putin’s ‘Personal Cashbox’ Jailed 8.5 Years for Bribery

Igor Andreev was arrested in March 2024 after police investigators said they caught him receiving part of an illicit payment tied to a real estate development...

Ex-Detention Center Warden in Irkutsk Jailed 5 Years for Abusing Inmates

Igor Mokeev and his deputy were found guilty of overseeing the abuse of dozens of inmates who had been transferred to the detention center following a deadly...

Military Court Sentences 8 to Life in Prison Over Crimean Bridge Bombing

Ukraine took responsibility for the 2022 attack but has insisted that those arrested in Russia were unaware that they were transporting explosives.

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