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Moscow Court Orders Pre-Trial Detention of Political Analyst Ekaterina Schulmann in Absentia

Schulmann, a prominent commentator on parliamentary politics, left Russia for Germany in early 2022 shortly after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Prosecutors Request Additional 4-Year Prison Sentence for Mother of Chechen Dissidents

State prosecutors claim that Zarema Musaeva, who suffers from diabetes, scratched the neck of a prison bailiff during a hospital visit.

Black Sea Oil Spill: Russian Authorities Say Tanker Captain Lacked Valid Certification

Transportation officials said the captain’s certification for piloting ships had lapsed “several days” before the Black Sea oil spill in December...

Prosecutors Seek 13-Year Sentence for Activist in Bashkortostan Over Navalny Ties

Olga Komleva volunteered at the regional branch of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation before the group was outlawed as “extremist” in 2021.

Ex-State TV Anchor Jailed 8 Years in Absentia for ‘War Fakes’ and ‘Justifying Terrorism’

Authorities pressed charges against Farida Kurbangaleeva following her May 2024 interview with a fighter from the Free Russia Legion.

Senior Defense Official Jailed 6 Years Over Russian Military Theme Park Fraud

Vladimir Shesterov had served as deputy head of the Defense Ministry’s Main Department for Innovative Development before his arrest last August.

State Prosecutors Seek to Seize Latvian Co-Owner’s Stake in Bread Bakery Over ‘Extremism’ Claims

Russian authorities accuse businessman Normunds Bomis, who holds a 50% stake in Rizhsky Khleb, of helping finance Ukraine’s Azov Brigade.

Military Court Jails Exiled Writer Boris Akunin 14 Years in Absentia

The popular writer was found guilty of justifying terrorism, facilitating terrorist activity and violating Russia’s “foreign agent” laws.

Yekaterinburg Court Places 6 Azerbaijanis in Pre-Trial Detention Amid Cold-Case Probe

Police initially arrested over 50 people in connection with the unsolved murders of Azerbaijani businessmen dating back to the early 2000s.

Ex-Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov Sentenced to 13 Years in Prison

A judge in Moscow also ordered the former defense official to pay a fine of $1.2 million and stripped him of his state awards.

‘Jesus of Siberia’ Cult Leader Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison

Sergei Torop, a former traffic officer who calls himself “Vissarion,” founded the Church of the Last Testament in 1991 after what he described as a...

U.S. Grand Jury Indicts Russian Scientist for Allegedly Smuggling Frog Embryos

Harvard Medical School researcher Ksenia Petrova was also indicted on charges of giving false statements and concealment of a material fact.

Prosecutors File Civil Suit Against Dagestan State Secretary

Magomed-Sultan was reportedly arrested on Wednesday in Makhachkala following searches at dozens of properties linked to him and his family.

Plagiarism Campaigner Zayakin Jailed 5 Years in Absentia for Navalny Donation

Dissernet co-founder Dmitry Zayakin is believed to have fled Russia in October 2022 after he was arrested and charged with “financing extremist activities...

St. Petersburg Court Places Woman in Pre-Trial Detention for Attempted Murder of Drone Company Employee

Law enforcement officials arrested the woman last week after she allegedly tried but failed to place an explosive device under the employee’s car.

Prosecutors Seek 14.5-Year Prison Sentence for Ex-Deputy Defense Minister Ivanov

Timur Ivanov was arrested in April 2024, part of what would later become a wider Kremlin crackdown on corruption within the Defense Ministry.

Russian Court Fines Wikipedia Operator Nearly $40K Over ‘Pedophilia Propaganda’

This is at least the seventh administrative case the court has heard against the Wikimedia Foundation in the past seven years, Mediazona reported.

Belgorod Court Sentences Activist Who Helped Ukrainian Refugees to 22 Years in Prison

Nadezhda Rossinskaya’s Army of Beauties volunteer initiative claims to have helped 25,000 people in occupied Ukraine between 2022 and 2023.

Moscow Court Rules to Nationalize Domodedovo Airport

The airport’s ultimate beneficial owners were reportedly accused of transferring $228 million of profits abroad between 2021 and 2023.

St. Petersburg Bookstore Manager Fined Over Sale of Anarchist Memoir

Podpisniye Izdaniya was said to have sold Belarusian anarchist Ihar Alinevich’s 2013 memoir “I’m Off to Magadan.”

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