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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
October 14, 2026

9 ans pour l’incendie d’une antenne-relais, 10 ans pour le massacre d’une famille avec un enfant de 3 ans. L’arithmétique de la « justice » russe pour les mineur

We have already conducted a comparative analysis of sentences handed down by the so-called Russian judicial […]
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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
September 11, 2026

Old story or new — you decide: Daniil Klyuka was arrested and sentenced to 20 years in prison after being denounced over caricatures drawn in pencil in a newspaper.

It reads like a note from the distant 1930s. A rural art teacher used to draw […]
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by Denis Grigorian
August 21, 2026

No more political theater: the naked truth is better than a sweet lie. In Russia, the last establishment party still pretending to offer a liberal alternative — Yabloko — has been removed from the election.

The Masks Are Off. The Kremlin No Longer Even Wants to Pretend It Is Playing Democracy […]
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by Denis Grigorian
August 19, 2026

“If a Friend Suddenly Turns Out…” — Not a Friend, but a Real Enemy: Sergey Lange Sentenced to 15 Years for Following the FSB’s Instructions and Continuing the “Surveillance”

The case of Sergey Lange is not entirely representative of persecution specifically for words or beliefs, […]
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