Как проходят суды над участниками группы Stoptime. Сегодня певица Наоко и гитарист Александр Орлов получили еще по 13 суток

The crackdown clock in St Petersburg ticks to its own rhythm: 13 days in jail release 13 days in jail release 13 days in jail (we are now here) A new sad update to our article about the Stoptime band: en.zona.media/article/2025...

On Friday, our confirmed count of Russia’s war dead passed 145,000. We noted a sharp rise in the number of teenagers killed at the front, fueled by new laws allowing 18-year-olds and criminal suspects to be recruited from detention. Read the full story: en.zona.media/article/2025...

Activist Mikhail Kriger has been on a hunger strike for over a month to protest solitary confinement. After @garbage’s Shirley Manson sent a public appeal to the prison chief, she got a response: 2 pages of penal code quotes that never mention his name en.zona.media/article/2025...

Activist Mikhail Kriger has been on a hunger strike for over a month to protest solitary confinement. After @garbage’s Shirley Manson sent a public appeal to the prison chief, she got a response: 2 pages of penal code quotes that never mention his name en.zona.media/article/2025...

He turned 18, signed a contract, and was dead a month later. Our analysis finds hundreds of teenage recruits among Russia’s war dead, a rise fuelled by relaxing laws and allowing criminal suspects to sign contracts from detention. Read the full update: en.zona.media/article/2025...

Over 145 thousand Russian soldiers. That’s the confirmed death toll as of 7 November. Many of the 5K names added in the past two weeks weren’t new losses, they were men missing for months or years, now confirmed dead. Read the update: en.zona.media/article/2025...

Bis zum 7. November sind über 145.000 russische Soldaten gestorben. Viele der 5.000 neuen Namen waren lange vermisst und jetzt bestätigt tot. Darunter Hunderte Jugendliche, einige nur einen Monat nach der Rekrutierung. Bericht lesen: zona.media/article/2025...

Plus de 145 000 soldats russes confirmés morts au 7 novembre. Parmi les 5 000 nouveaux noms, beaucoup étaient portés disparus. Des centaines étaient des adolescents, certains morts seulement un mois après leur enrôlement. Lire le rapport : zona.media/article/2025...

Más de 145 000 soldados rusos muertos hasta el 7 noviembre. Muchos de los 5 000 nombres recientes eran desaparecidos confirmados. Entre ellos, cientos de adolescentes, algunos muertos un mes tras enlistarse. Lee la actualización: zona.media/article/2025...

Over 145 thousand Russian soldiers. That’s the confirmed death toll as of 7 November. Many of the 5K names added in the past two weeks weren’t new losses, they were men missing for months or years, now confirmed dead. Read the update: en.zona.media/article/2025...

He turned 18, signed a contract, and was dead a month later. Our analysis finds hundreds of teenage recruits among Russia’s war dead, a rise fuelled by relaxing laws and allowing criminal suspects to sign contracts from detention. Read the full update: en.zona.media/article/2025...

Russian business travel to the U.S. hit a new wartime high in the third quarter of 2025. The data suggests these were direct flights, a notable change as diplomatic contacts increase en.zona.media/article/2025...

That didn’t take long. A man from a Urals town looked up information on Ukrainian military units while on a bus. His internet provider reported him, and he is now the first to face charges under Russia’s newly minted “search for extremism” ban en.zona.media/article/2025...

The road to renewed nuclear testing in the Arctic begins not with a bang, but with a request to draw up “coordinated proposals on the possible start of work to prepare.” When the stakes are this high, the legalese must outweigh the danger zona.media/article/2025...

Vladimir Putin has signed two laws expanding Russia’s military mobilization system: one introducing year-round military conscription checks, the other allowing reservists to be called up even in peacetime. The moves signal the Kremlin’s intent to keep war footing indefinite 1/4

A Moscow court has jailed Irina Rudnitskaya, a psychologist and head of a “family values protection” NGO who became guardian to a boy taken from Mariupol after Russia’s siege. She now faces charges of trafficking “two or more children,” up to 10 years in prison 1/4

Data from the Central Bank shows an influx of volunteers into the Russian army: over 69,000 loan deferrals for them in the third quarter of 2025. Since September 2022, when Russia announced the mobilisation and passed a law on benefits, almost 658,000 deferrals have been granted

These 18 Ukrainians were captured by Russia, tortured and tried for their connection to the Aidar Battalion. Two were exchanged, one vanished in Russia’s prison system, fifteen were sentences to terms from 15 to 21 years: en.zona.media/article/2025...

Activist Mikhail Pushnitsky, 78, was detained at the Levashovo cemetery in St. Petersburg. He came there on October 30, Remembrance Day for the Victims of Political Repression. A court fined him $375 for "discrediting" the army: he wore a "Peace to Ukraine" yellow-blue pin. Photo: Mediazona, Bumaga

The time has indeed stopped for Stoptime band in St Petersburg: today, drummer Vladislav Leontyev got another 12 days in jail for a street performance. Yesterday, the band’s singer Diana Loginova (Naoko) and guitarist Alexander Orlov were re-arrested en.zona.media/article/2025...

Moscow State University's journalism department, the most famous school of its kind in Russia, has banned students from wearing “any Halloween attire” under threat of reprimand. First-year students recieved a message, according to which this includes any “costumes and makeup”

The prosecution has requested life sentences for all 8 defendants in the trial over the Oct. 2022 Crimean bridge attack (a truck full of explosives detonated). The defendants, who include 6 businessmen, a farmer and a truck driver, are accused of facilitating the attack 1/5

Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin proposed cutting off pensions for Russians labeled as “foreign agents” (hundreds of people). He said, “A person who betrayed the country walks around Paris but gets a pension from Russia. Let that money go to a special account” 1/3

Street musician Diana “Naoko” Loginova and guitarist Alexander Orlov have each been jailed for 13 more days in St. Petersburg: “organising a public event” and “petty hooliganism.” Amid all the crackdown, Orlov proposed to Naoko in court en.zona.media/article/2025...

18-year-old street musician Naoko completed 13 days in jail, was taken to court and fined, then returned to police custody where she fell ill. By evening, authorities had drawn up fresh charges. Here’s what we know about her bizarre persecution so far: en.zona.media/article/2025...

In case you missed it last week: our confirmed count of Russia’s war dead is now at 140,101 (the lowest, verified named count). Full update in English: en.zona.media/article/2025... German: zona.media/article/2025... French: zona.media/article/2025... Spanish: zona.media/article/2025...

Alesya Marokhovskaya, editor-in-chief of independent Russian media outlet IStories, is sentenced in absentia to 10 months of corrective labour. A criminal case for “evading duties of a foreign agent” was started against her last year. Investigators searched the home of her parents in Magadan

15 Ukrainian prisoners from the Aidar battalion are sentenced to huge prison terms by Russia: 15 to 21 years. They went through torture. Two female medics, defendants in the same case, were exchanged, one vanished in the Russian prison system. Here's what we know: en.zona.media/article/2025...

Nuestro recuento de bajas rusas confirmadas en Ucrania ya suma 140.101. En dos semanas sumamos 5.001 nombres, el doble de lo habitual, tras confirmar la muerte de soldados antes desaparecidos mediante registros de herencias zona.media/article/2025...

In Kazan, unidentified attackers ambushed a military convoy and freed a detained draft dodger. According to “Ostorozhno, Novosti”, the fugitive is a decorated veteran who fought in Ukraine and was awarded the “For Courage” medal for fighting in Ukraine 1/4

Our tally of Russia’s confirmed war dead in Ukraine has reached 140,101. In the past two weeks, we added 5,001 names, double our usual rate. This surge comes from confirming the deaths of previously missing soldiers via inheritance records. The report: en.zona.media/article/2025...

The full story behind these numbers is crucial for understanding the human cost of the war. For our readers around the world, the report is available in multiple languages Español: zona.media/article/2025... Français: zona.media/article/2025... Deutsch: zona.media/article/2025...

Our tally of Russia’s confirmed war dead in Ukraine has reached 140,101. In the past two weeks, we added 5,001 names, double our usual rate. This surge comes from confirming the deaths of previously missing soldiers via inheritance records. The report: en.zona.media/article/2025...

On Nov 27, Russia’s Supreme Court is expected to declare Navalny’s @ACF_int a “terrorist organisation.” The new label would impose harsher penalties on activists, compounding the current crackdown on donations to the group under its “extremist” ban en.zona.media/article/2025...

In Tatarstan, Investigative Committee started prosecuting teenagers under a “Nazism rehabilitation” law after they... vomited on patriotic ribbons for a $6 livestream dare en.zona.media/article/2025...

In Tatarstan, Investigative Committee started prosecuting teenagers under a “Nazism rehabilitation” law after they... vomited on patriotic ribbons for a $6 livestream dare en.zona.media/article/2025...

She fled domestic violence in Chechnya, seeking safety in Armenia. She was found murdered after meeting an Instagram friend with followers from Ramzan Kadyrov’s inner circle en.zona.media/article/2025...

She fled domestic violence in Chechnya, seeking safety in Armenia. She was found murdered after meeting an Instagram friend with followers from Ramzan Kadyrov’s inner circle en.zona.media/article/2025...

Now we know the bizarre pretext for charges against the 18-year-old street singer Naoko: her “discrediting the army” report quotes a Ukrainian fan’s comment (!) on a Noize MC’s social media (!!) thanking him for support amid Russian drone strikes (!!!) en.zona.media/article/2025...

Aishat Baimuradova, 23, who fled Chechnya with the help of human rights activists, was found dead at a rental in Yerevan, Armenia. She went missing on October 17. Accroding to activists, she was last seen going on a meeting with an Instagram friend. (1/3) Photo: Armenian police

First they ban the artists. Then their songs. Now they jail street musicians who sing them. A court in Putin’s hometown has jailed young members of the street band Stoptime for performing a playlist of protest music: en.zona.media/article/2025...

As the war continues to poison everyday life in Russia, a military instructor near Belgorod was filmed hitting a 9th-grader wearing a bulletproof vest during a first-aid lesson. He invited kids to join in “to demonstrate protection.” Prosecutors are investigating 🎦Pepel 1/3

First they ban the artists. Then their songs. Now they jail street musicians who sing them. A court in Putin’s hometown has jailed young members of the street band Stoptime for performing a playlist of protest music: en.zona.media/article/2025...

Slavoj Žižek, John Cusack, Janet and Martin Sheen shared with Mediazona a letter to the warden of the prison where activist Mikhail Kriger is serving 7 years. Kriger is now on day 21 of a hunger strike demanding humane conditions

Murmansk native Maxim Nasilovsky is the youngest Russian killed in the war with Ukraine, Mediazona learned. Born Oct 20, 2006, he'd been serving a 5-year sentence for the murder of his mother when he was recruited into the army. He died on 30 Nov 2024, a month after turning 18

Prosecution of Russians for small donations to late opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s foundation is accelerating. More cases have reached the courts in the past 9 months than in the previous 3 years combined. We tracked 114 cases across 49 regions: en.zona.media/article/2025...

Prosecution of Russians for small donations to late opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s foundation is accelerating. More cases have reached the courts in the past 9 months than in the previous 3 years combined. We tracked 114 cases across 49 regions: en.zona.media/article/2025...

Politician Vladimir Kara-Murza is arrested in absentia by Moscow's Basmanny Court on charges of spreading "fake news" (again) and participating in an "extremist organisation." He was placed on the public wanted list in Russia on Monday, but charges were then unknown

Politician Vladimir Kara-Murza is arrested in absentia by Moscow's Basmanny Court on charges of spreading "fake news" (again) and participating in an "extremist organisation." He was placed on the public wanted list in Russia on Monday, but charges were then unknown