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by Denis Grigorian
November 4, 2026

12.5 Years in Prison for a Gravely Ill Pensioner for Loving Her Homeland and Donating €13. Galina Bekhter Is on the Brink of Life and Death in a Russian Prison

We would like to tell you another horrifying story about what the so-called Russian authorities are […]
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by Denis Grigorian
October 21, 2026

Human Rights Advocacy as an Evolutionary Necessity: Russian War Correspondent Yevgeny Golman on Commanders Rewarded for Robbing and Killing Their Own Soldiers

When Defending Human Rights Is Not a Choice, but an Inevitability Curious, and sometimes terrifying, paradoxes […]
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by Denis Grigorian
October 17, 2026

Real-Life Horror: Killing Your Eight-Month-Old Daughter Together with Your Wife and Putting Her Remains Through a Meat Grinder — 13, 15 Years in Prison. Setting Fire to a Railway Relay Cabinet — 19 Years.

We have previously written about the astonishing sentences handed down by Russia’s judicial system, comparing punishments […]
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by Denis Grigorian
September 23, 2026

A “Cannibal” Is a Cannibal’s Friend, Not an Enemy: Or How Murders Involving the Eating of Human Flesh Became Punishable by Sentences Comparable to Those for Drawing a Caricature

Friends, today our article is not exactly about activists or prisoners of conscience, although we will […]
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by Denis Grigorian
September 18, 2026

Dmitry Lyamin was sentenced to 22 years for a scorched window frame and conversations with fellow inmates. Nearly 100 years of fear and terror — and why Lubyanka should become a memorial.

Troubling Signs Troubling reports are reaching us about a new escalation against political activists and, more […]
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by Denis Grigorian
August 31, 2026

Now You Don’t Need to Break Russian Law — It’s Enough Just to Come Into Contact With What the State Has Banned: Lev Shlosberg Was Sentenced to 11 Years

Lev Shlosberg: When the Law Becomes Just Another Instrument An interesting picture is emerging around the […]
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by Denis Grigorian
August 15, 2026

Hunting down dissenters in Russia: Polina Yevtushenko was sentenced to 14 years for a conversation on a date with a provocateur. Her daughter spent her sixth birthday without her mother.

Very disturbing news is coming out of Russia. And although in this case it did not […]
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by Denis Grigorian
August 3, 2026

Exchange of technologies for suppressing free thought: in Russia, Denis Popov was sentenced to 25 years for donations to a political video blogger

Twenty-five years for a subscription, donations and a treason charge: Russia is approaching the threshold of […]
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by Denis Grigorian
July 29, 2026

Authoritarian Mutual Aid — a New USSR? Georgy Pirogov Disappeared in Uzbekistan, Turned Up in a Moscow Detention Center, and Was Sentenced to 23 Years

Disturbing news comes not only from Russia but also from other post-Soviet states. The story of […]
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