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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 2h

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...

Over 100 criminal cases launched for donations to Navalny’s foundation. Mediazona is tracking the nationwide crackdown on supporters of the Anti‑Corruption Foundation

At least 114 criminal cases have been launched in Russia over donations to Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF) after it was outlawed as an “extremist” organisation in...

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 5h

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

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Politician Vladimir Kara-Murza is placed on Russia's wanted list. The charges against him remaim unknown. Kara-Murza, 44, had been serving a 25-year sentence for treason and “fake news” about the Russian army and was released in August 2024 in a prisoner exchange between Russia and the West

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 5h

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

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Politician Vladimir Kara-Murza is placed on Russia's wanted list. The charges against him remaim unknown. Kara-Murza, 44, had been serving a 25-year sentence for treason and “fake news” about the Russian army and was released in August 2024 in a prisoner exchange between Russia and the West

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 22h

@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social advertises the new book by Yascha Mounk as explaining “why the noble goals of identity politics are doomed to fail.”

In Russia, a slight twist: some passages had to be censored because LGBTQ+ is deemed “extremist”

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Burned identity. How a book on identity politics was censored in Russia due to laws banning LGBTQ+ as “extremist”

The Russian publisher Individuum has removed all references to LGBTQ+ people from its translation of “The Identity Trap”, a new book by the political scientist Yascha Mounk. The mo...

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 22h

@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social advertises the new book by Yascha Mounk as explaining “why the noble goals of identity politics are doomed to fail.”

In Russia, a slight twist: some passages had to be censored because LGBTQ+ is deemed “extremist”

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Burned identity. How a book on identity politics was censored in Russia due to laws banning LGBTQ+ as “extremist”

The Russian publisher Individuum has removed all references to LGBTQ+ people from its translation of “The Identity Trap”, a new book by the political scientist Yascha Mounk. The mo...

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 1d

The case of French ultra-distance rider Sofiane Sehili, arrested in early September for illegal border crossing, is brought to a Russian court. He is facing up to 2 years. Sekhili wanted to set a new record: on July 1, he started from Lisbon and was supposed to finish in Vladivostok

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 1d

Mikhail Kriger was sentenced on 17 May 2023. In the last months, he's been isolated from other prisoners in solitary confinement and denied visits from his daughter. Manson's letter was provided to Mediazona by Pussy Riot's @nadyariot.bsky.social

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 1d

Shirley Manson, singer of @garbage.com, wrote an open letter to the warden of the prison where Mikhail Kriger is serving a 7 year sentence, charged with "calls to terrorism" and "incitement to hatred." Kriger has been on a hunger strike for 19 days, demanding humane conditions

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 2d

Politician Vladimir Kara-Murza is placed on Russia's wanted list. The charges against him remaim unknown. Kara-Murza, 44, had been serving a 25-year sentence for treason and “fake news” about the Russian army and was released in August 2024 in a prisoner exchange between Russia and the West

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 4d

Our losses update is also available in French, Spanish, and German. Strong interest from French readers, with Spanish surpassing German.

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 4d

Our losses update is also available in French, Spanish, and German. Strong interest from French readers, with Spanish surpassing German.

Help us reach more readers by sharing in your language

Esp: zona.media/article/2025...
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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 4d

As of October 10, our team has identified 135,100 Russian soldiers killed in the war against Ukraine.

The flow of new obituaries continues to outpace our verification efforts, with our backlog of unverified obituaries at 17,500+.

Read the update:

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 5d

Pavel Syutkin, a 60-year-old food historian who once officially represented Russia at a world fair, was placed under arrest in Moscow. He is charged with spreading “fake news about the military” for a 2022 post about the killing of civilians in Bucha

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“Radical views related to disagreement with the current Russian regime”. Celebrated food historian jailed in Moscow over Ukraine war posts

A prominent Russian food historian Pavel Syutkin who once officially represented the country at a world fair has been jailed in Moscow on charges of spreading “fake news about the ...

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 5d

Today we’re publishing an update to our searchable database of Russia’s wanted list, a project we began in 2024.

We tracked 32,000+ new notices, from rapper Face to Kursk residents registered as missing after last year’s incursion.

Full report: en.zona.media/article/2025...

Russia’s wanted list. An updated and user‑friendly database

Latest update: March 2025

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 5d

Today we’re publishing an update to our searchable database of Russia’s wanted list, a project we began in 2024.

We tracked 32,000+ new notices, from rapper Face to Kursk residents registered as missing after last year’s incursion.

Full report: en.zona.media/article/2025...

Russia’s wanted list. An updated and user‑friendly database

Latest update: March 2025

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 7d

Semyon Karmanov, a disabled Siberian man who could not read or write, has been killed in Ukraine aged 27.

He was recruited from prison, serving time for an $80 theft (of pancakes and flowers for his mom) and declared fit for combat

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Unfit to learn, fit to die. Disabled Siberian man unable to read or write is killed in Ukraine after being recruited from prison

Semyon Karmanov, a 27-year-old from Kemerovo, Siberia, who was recruited into the army from a penal colony despite having a severe intellectual disability, has been killed in Ukrai...

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 7d

Semyon Karmanov, a disabled Siberian man who could not read or write, has been killed in Ukraine aged 27.

He was recruited from prison, serving time for an $80 theft (of pancakes and flowers for his mom) and declared fit for combat

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Unfit to learn, fit to die. Disabled Siberian man unable to read or write is killed in Ukraine after being recruited from prison

Semyon Karmanov, a 27-year-old from Kemerovo, Siberia, who was recruited into the army from a penal colony despite having a severe intellectual disability, has been killed in Ukrai...

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 8d

The violence of the war isn’t staying confined to frontlines and Ukraine. Since the invasion began, military courts have charged nearly 1,000 of Russian soldiers with murder.

Our data shows the wave of violent crime is still growing: en.zona.media/article/2025...

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 8d

The violence of the war isn’t staying confined to frontlines and Ukraine. Since the invasion began, military courts have charged nearly 1,000 of Russian soldiers with murder.

Our data shows the wave of violent crime is still growing: en.zona.media/article/2025...

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 9d

Can you be tried twice for the same crime? Three times? In Putin’s Russia, yes! That’s exactly what’s happening to Ukrainian POWs.

Read our investigation: en.zona.media/article/2025...

One trial after another. Mediazona investigation finds Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russia are being prosecuted again and again

Since the first year of the war, Ukrainian soldiers and officers have faced trials in Russian courts and across the annexed territories. They are tortured, held in inhumane conditi...

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 12d

Margarita Murakhtaeva, Slavina’s daughter, was released after giving a statement

Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 12d

Predictive policing at its best in Russia: in Nizhny Novgorod, police detain the daughter of Irina Slavina for the act of remembering her mother by laying flowers, citing a notice of the impending memorial as justification for the arrest

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An inheritance of harassment. Daughter of journalist Irina Slavina detained for laying flowers at mother’s self‑immolation site

Margarita Murakhtaeva was arrested while laying flowers near the spot in Nizhny Novgorod where her mother, the journalist Irina Slavina, died by self-immolation in 2020. The detent...

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 12d

Predictive policing at its best in Russia: in Nizhny Novgorod, police detain the daughter of Irina Slavina for the act of remembering her mother by laying flowers, citing a notice of the impending memorial as justification for the arrest

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An inheritance of harassment. Daughter of journalist Irina Slavina detained for laying flowers at mother’s self‑immolation site

Margarita Murakhtaeva was arrested while laying flowers near the spot in Nizhny Novgorod where her mother, the journalist Irina Slavina, died by self-immolation in 2020. The detent...

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 13d

With dozens of cases like this in today's Russia, some end in prison sentences. Read our investigation here:

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76 criminal cases and counting. Widespread crackdown over donations to Navalny’s Anti‑Corruption Foundation targets regular supporters. A Mediazona investigation

Donation system proved less secure than expected

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 13d

In Yekaterinburg, mathematician Mikhail Volkov (left), 70, father of key Anti-Corruption Foundation figure and Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, is fined 300,000 roubles ($3,700) in a case of “financing extremism,” for donating 2,000 roubles ($25) to the foundation.

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 13d

While there’s no clarity behind the reasoning, Panahi’s film features a storyline involving the kidnapping of an intelligence officer by former victims of torture. Perhaps, in Russia, this alone felt a little too on the nose

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