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Providing information about human rights in the Russian Federation
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News of the Week -
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News of the Week - Rights in Russia
Week-ending 26 June 2026
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Sergei Davidis: 'Aleksei is greatly missed, but he is still with us' -
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Sergei Davidis: 'Aleksei is greatly missed, but he is still with us' - Rights in Russia
'On June 12–13, the founding convention of the Peaceful Russia party took place in Berlin.'
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/davidis-39/
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Lev Shlosberg: 'Paper kindness you can hold in your hands' -
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Lev Shlosberg: 'Paper kindness you can hold in your hands' - Rights in Russia
On the first letters received in prison and the hundreds of strangers on the outside
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/shlosberg-81/
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News of the Week - Rights in Russia
Week-ending 19 June 2026
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9 days ago
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Martin Dewhirst reviews 'The August Coup: The Destruction of the Soviet Union and The Making of New Russia' by Robert Service -
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Martin Dewhirst reviews 'The August Coup: The Destruction of the Soviet Union and The Making of New Russia' by Robert Service - Rights in Russia
'Easily the best and most detailed book on the last seven years of the USSR that I have read in any language'
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/dewhirst-30/
15 days ago
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Teresa Cherfas reviews 'The Disappearing Act' by Maria Stepanova -
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Teresa Cherfas reviews 'The Disappearing Act' by Maria Stepanova - Rights in Russia
'In Sasha Dugdale’s exquisite translation, The Disappearing Act elevates language to the realm of poetry'
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/cherfas-25/
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Week-ending 12 June 2026 Russia’s War against Ukraine Major Russian insurance companies have begun offering individual policyholders coverage for “acts of war,” the Russian business daily Kommersant r...
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/news-of-the-week-133/
16 days ago
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Anna Karetnikova: 'If people came to kill me and my loved ones under the Coca-Cola flag – for sure I would lose my taste for that' -
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Anna Karetnikova: 'If people came to kill me and my loved ones under the Coca-Cola flag – for sure I would lose my taste for that' - Rights in Russia
'I renounce the Tricolour'
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/karetnikova-66/
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Mira Livadina: ‘She agonized over the persecuted almost more than they did themselves’ -
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Mira Livadina: ‘She agonized over the persecuted almost more than they did themselves’ - Rights in Russia
'How many other cases are there about which we know nothing... '
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/livadina/
17 days ago
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Lev Shlosberg: Doctor Zhivago with a stamp: ‘Verified. Federal Remand Prison No. 1’ -
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Lev Shlosberg: Doctor Zhivago with a stamp: ‘Verified. Federal Remand Prison No. 1’ - Rights in Russia
On the evening of 30 December 2025, the food slot in my cell door opened and in it I saw hands, and in those hands—a book. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago.
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/shlosberg-78/
21 days ago
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Rights in Russia Update -
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Rights in Russia Update - Rights in Russia
29 May 2026
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/rir-update-140/
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Подкаст "Тогда и сейчас" #42 - с Машей Слоним. О своей сестре Нинe Литвиновой.
YouTube video by Rights in Russia
https://youtu.be/IQRfK6X75VI?si=QtdtzowdRliAvP9I
26 days ago
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Quotes of the Week -
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Quotes of the Week - Rights in Russia
Week-ending 29 May 2026
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27 days ago
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Write to Russia: Anna Aleksandrova - sentenced to five years two months for speaking out against Russia's invasion of Ukraine -
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Write to Russia: Anna Aleksandrova - sentenced to five years two months for speaking out against Russia's invasion of Ukraine - Rights in Russia
'The very fact of prosecution under Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation allows us to consider it unlawful.' Memorial
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/write-to-russia-134/
27 days ago
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Rights in Russia Interview: Mary Page in conversation with Tanya Matveeva and Petr Petrenko -
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Rights in Russia Interview: Mary Page in conversation with Tanya Matveeva and Petr Petrenko - Rights in Russia
Writing to political prisoners in Russia
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/rights-in-russia-interview-58/
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RiRinterview: Writing letters to political prisoners in Russia - with Tanya Matveeva & Petr Petrenko
YouTube video by Rights in Russia
https://youtu.be/ycSxko6Hl90?si=1hp91o71S8TVqAAh
28 days ago
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Week-ending 22 May 2026
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Reserve your place – The mirror argument: Can human rights survive being weaponised against themselves? [DRAFT] – Olga Sadovskaya speaks at Frankopan Hall, West Court, Jesus College
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about 1 month ago
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Podcast Then & Now #41: Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Ksenia Luchenko -
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Podcast Then & Now #41: Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Ksenia Luchenko - Rights in Russia
Ksenia Luchenko - an expert in the field of church affairs and media.
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/podcast-99/
about 2 months ago
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Rights in Russia Update -
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Rights in Russia Update - Rights in Russia
8 May 2026
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/rir-update-137/
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
“Fascinating […] unputdownable.” Martin Dewhirst reviews 'The Last Gasp of William Schwarzfeller' for
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– a gripping account of a son’s decades‑long search for his father, who vanished in Moscow in 1938. 🔗
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Write to Russia: Andrei Glukhov, aged 20, with cerebral palsy sentenced to 12 years for transferring 1,450 roubles to Ukraine to support a petition calling for an end to the war -
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Write to Russia: Andrei Glukhov, aged 20, with cerebral palsy sentenced to 12 years for transferring 1,450 roubles to Ukraine to support a petition calling for an end to the war - Rights in Russia
“Glukhov’s actions clearly did not pose a threat to Russia’s security… A 12-year sentence for such a negligible sum is manifestly excessive.” - Memorial, 19 January 2026
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/write-to-russia-131/
about 2 months ago
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Quotes of the Week -
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Week-ending 8 May 2026
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about 2 months ago
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Week-ending 8 May 2026
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about 2 months ago
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Russian political prisoner says he was was beaten, electrocuted, and threatened with rape at prison in Yamalo-Nenets — Meduza
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Russian political prisoner says he was was beaten, electrocuted, and threatened with rape at prison in Yamalo-Nenets — Meduza
Anarchist and mathematician Azat Miftakhov says he was tortured after being transferred to Prison Colony No. 18 “Polyarnaya Sova” in the settlement of Kharp in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, t...
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/05/05/russian-political-prisoner-says-he-was-was-beaten-electrocuted-and-threatened-with-rape-at-prison-in-yamalo-nenets
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Russian man sets himself on fire at war memorial on anniversary of Ukraine invasion, authorities suppress news of it — Meduza
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Russian man sets himself on fire at war memorial on anniversary of Ukraine invasion, authorities suppress news of it — Meduza
A 37-year-old Kaliningrad resident set himself on fire at the 1,200 Guardsmen memorial on February 24, 2025 — the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Alexander Okunev’s act o...
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/05/06/russian-man-sets-himself-on-fire-at-war-memorial-on-anniversary-of-ukraine-invasion-authorities-suppress-news-of-it
about 2 months ago
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Aleksandr Podrabinek: Prison 'disruption' - on the new prosecution of political prisoner Ilya Florinsky -
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Aleksandr Podrabinek: Prison 'disruption' - on the new prosecution of political prisoner Ilya Florinsky - Rights in Russia
'A challenge not only to the prison system, but to the entire authoritarian regime.'
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/podrabinek-225/
about 2 months ago
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Retired Ukrainian journalist Iryna Levchenko held by Kremlin for past three years | RSF
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Retired Ukrainian journalist Iryna Levchenko held by Kremlin for past three years
Iryna Levchenko, a retired Ukrainian journalist now aged 64, was abducted on a street in Russian-occupied territory exactly three years ago, on 6 May 2023, and has been a Kremlin prisoner ever since, ...
https://rsf.org/en/retired-ukrainian-journalist-iryna-levchenko-held-kremlin-past-three-years?mc_cid=478c9427f3&mc_eid=675a59a794
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‘Lietunov said the Kremlin had successfully brainwashed Russian soldiers, convincing them they were fighting “fascists” paid for by the US and Europe and did not understand Ukrainians were defending their homeland.’
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‘You’re not one of us, are you?’: How a Ukrainian soldier survived two weeks in a Russian dugout
When Vadym Lietunov spotted a fortified position after his own had been blown up, he didn’t realise it belonged to the enemy
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/may/03/youre-not-one-of-us-are-you-how-a-ukrainian-soldier-survived-two-weeks-in-a-russian-dugout?fbclid=IwZnRzaARmgQ1leHRuA2FlbQExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR7qtvxFvSIn1x1XOCIA_6LXHp3gSI2fZ4jvROyOSNc0qIvYA08EZP2gFJ071g_aem_B4x7Xs5FK5uodJ1KtSuNog
about 2 months ago
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'An Elon Musk-Supported Apology of Russia’s War on Ukraine' - a public statement [in English and Russian] -
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'An Elon Musk-Supported Apology of Russia’s War on Ukraine' - a public statement [in English and Russian] - Rights in Russia
A collective warning to readers of 'The Russia-Ukraine War and its Origins: From the Maidan to the Ukraine War'
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/public-statements/
about 2 months ago
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Sergei Davidis: Brazen unlawfulness -
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Sergei Davidis: Brazen unlawfulness - Rights in Russia
'As public support for the war and for the authorities in general declines, the results of earlier efforts of repression are clearly seen by the authorities as insufficient.'
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/davidis-37/
about 2 months ago
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Leonid Nikitinsky: Greetings from Pandora -
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Leonid Nikitinsky: Greetings from Pandora - Rights in Russia
'The seizure of the assets of the former chair of Krasnodar Regional Court continues, but no word of a criminal case'
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/nikitinsky-159/
about 2 months ago
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Write to Russia: Human rights lawyers Roman Kachanov and Larisa Zakharova face years in prison under the unconstitutional legislation on 'undesirable' organisations -
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Write to Russia: Human rights lawyers Roman Kachanov and Larisa Zakharov face years in prison under the unconstitutional legislation on 'undesirable' organisations - Rights in Russia
'We demand the release of Roman Kachanov and Larisa Zakharova and that all criminal charges against them be dropped.’ - Memorial
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/write-to-russia-130/
about 2 months ago
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Quotes of the Week -
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Quotes of the Week - Rights in Russia
Week-ending 1 May 2026
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about 2 months ago
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Russia’s war against Ukraine: Thousands of foreign nationals recruited by Russia in violation of international law
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Russia’s war against Ukraine: Thousands of foreign nationals recruited by Russia in violation of international law
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Truth Hounds, and the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (…)
https://www.fidh.org/en/region/europe-central-asia/russia/russia-s-war-against-ukraine-thousands-of-foreign-nationals-recruited
about 2 months ago
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Russia: Russian LGBT Network is labelled “extremist” in escalating crackdown on LGBTI rights - Amnesty International
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Russia: Russian LGBT Network is labelled “extremist” in escalating crackdown on LGBTI rights
The designation of the Russian LGBT Network and other organizations as ‘extremist’ are links in the same chain of persecution and injustice by the Russian authorities against LGBTI people
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/04/russia-russian-lgbt-network-is-labelled-extremist-in-escalating-crackdown-on-lgbti-rights/
about 2 months ago
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Week-ending 1 May 2026
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about 2 months ago
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Anna Karetnikova: This could just as easily be 1937 -
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Anna Karetnikova: This could just as easily be 1937 - Rights in Russia
'I'd like to know why this perfectly healthy man suddenly died in a Russian penal colony.'
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/karetnikova-63/
about 2 months ago
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Boris Altshuler: In Memory of Arseny Roginsky -
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Boris Altshuler: In Memory of Arseny Roginsky - Rights in Russia
'In the minds of millions of Russians, Memorial's activities are associated with preserving the memory of the victims of the Great Terror of the 1930s'
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/altshuler-21/
2 months ago
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Aleksandr Podrabinek: 'The decline and degradation are obvious' -
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Aleksandr Podrabinek: 'The decline and degradation are obvious' - Rights in Russia
'I wrote to him [Mikhail Kriger] last year that in such circumstances I wouldn’t want to give our enemies the satisfaction of my death.'
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/podrabinek-224/
2 months ago
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OVD-Info: Update on the Baimak prosecutions -
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OVD-Info: Update on the Baimak prosecutions - Rights in Russia
Six individuals prosecuted in the Baimak case await the outcome of appeals.
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/ovd-info-10/
2 months ago
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Quotes of the Week. - Rights in Russia
Week-ending 24 April 2026
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2 months ago
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Write to Russia: Ovsep Nazlukhanyan - a Ukrainian citizen sentenced to 13 years in a strict regime penal colony on trumped up charges of treason -
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Write to Russia: Ovsep Nazlukhanyan - a Ukrainian citizen sentenced to 13 years in a strict regime penal colony on trumped up charges of treason - Rights in Russia
Ukrainian citizen Ovsep Nazlukhanyan sentenced to 13 years in a strict regime penal colony by an illegitimate occupation court for 'treason'.
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/write-to-russia-129/
2 months ago
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Rights in Russia Interview: Mary Page in conversation with Teresa Cherfas - Rights in Russia
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Rights in Russia Interview: Mary Page in conversation with Teresa Cherfas - Rights in Russia
A conversation with Teresa Cherfas, a documentary filmmaker who has specialised in films about Russia and countries of the former USSR.
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/rights-in-russia-interview-57/
2 months ago
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This month Mary Page speaks with Teresa Cherfas, a documentary film producer and director who has specialised in making films about Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union.
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Rights in Russia Interview: Mary Page in conversation with documentary filmmaker Teresa Cherfas
YouTube video by Rights in Russia
https://youtu.be/j-G5Ae-bHDg
2 months ago
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Leonid Nikitinsky: The Crackdown on Notaries -
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Leonid Nikitinsky: The Crackdown on Notaries - Rights in Russia
'Anti-corruption lawsuits, replete with evidence of crimes by public officials, are not being converted into criminal prosecutions.'
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/nikitinsky-158/
2 months ago
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Leonid Nikitinsky: A dangerous precedent -
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Leonid Nikitinsky: A dangerous precedent - Rights in Russia
13 April 2026 Moscow’s Khamovnichesky district court has set a dangerous precedent in revoking three advocates’ license to practice By Leonid Nikitinsky Source: Novaya Gazeta On 10 April, some forty […]
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/nikitinsky-157/
2 months ago
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Week-ending 24 April 2026
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/news-of-the-week-126/
2 months ago
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Andrei Serov: Destroying the foundations of Russian statehood -
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2 months ago
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Write to Russia: Danil Efimov - a citizen of Ukraine and Russia sentenced to 12 years in a strict regime penal colony on a charge of treason for donating $120 to the Ukraine army -
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Write to Russia: Danil Efimov - a citizen of Ukraine and Russia sentenced to 12 years in a strict regime penal colony on a charge of treason for donating $120 to the Ukraine army - Rights in Russia
Danil Efimov, a student, has been sentenced to 12 years in a strict regime penal colony by a Russian court on charges of treason.
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/write-to-russia-128/
2 months ago
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