Russian dissidents

Culture news

Russian court jails playwright and director for 'justifying terrorism'

Yevgenia Berkovich and Svetlana Petrichuk were handed prison sentences of six years each, the latest development in an unrelenting crackdown on dissent and freedom of expression in Russia.

09/07/2024

Lithuania

Lithuanian State Security attribute Navalny ally attack to Russia

Lithuanian State Security Department has said the attack on Leonid Volkov in his car yesterday in Lithuania's capital Vilnius was 'Russian-organised'.

13/03/2024

Russia

Euroviews. Russia’s three wars have made peace with Putin impossible

Putin's regime is an existential threat to European civilization. If Russia wins in Ukraine, it will not stop, just as Hitler did not stop when he captured the Sudetenland. Putin will go further and won’t rest until he destroys the Western world, Leonid Gozman writes.

22/12/2023

Russia

Euroviews. Don’t ban Russians. Ban Putin's imperialism instead

The destructive and hawkish ideology of Vladimir Putin and his mafia state cronies should be persecuted just like any other aggressive and undemocratic system of beliefs, Aleksandar Đokić writes.

07/09/2023

Russia

Euroviews. Why aren’t there any mass protests against Putin in Russia?

The answer is obvious: maybe Putin’s machinery isn’t that good at breaking Ukraine’s defences, but it is incredibly competent at cracking the skulls of Russian opposition activists, Aleksandar Đokić writes.

06/06/2023

Russia

Police in Russia detain human rights activists

Russian authorities on Tuesday detained human rights activists including members of the Nobel-winning Memorial organisation after raids on homes and offices

21/03/2023

Russia

Russian authorities detain critic and ex-mayor Yevgeny Roizman

Roizman, who served as mayor of Yekaterinburg, was detained in a move seen as part of the Kremlin's efforts to silence the remaining opposition in the country.

16/03/2023

Russia

Russian opposition figure faces 25 years in prison on treason charges

Vladimir Kara-Murza is the latest Russian opposition activist on trial for allegedly spreading 'fake news' about the Russian army.

13/03/2023

Russia

Russian court rejects Navalny's complaints over prison conditions

A Russian court dismissed claims by Kremlin critic and opposition leader Alexei Navalny that he is being held illegally. The hearing occurred amid reports on the deterioration of Navalny's heath and calls from his wife and allies urging prison staff to provide essential medicines.

20/01/2023

Russia

Russian journalist who staged anti-war TV protest escapes house arrest

Marina Ovsyannikova faces 10 years in prison for spreading "fake news" about Russia's military

05/10/2022

Europe News

EU further tightens visas for Russian citizens over 'security threat'

Member states are urged to carry out a much more thorough assessment of each short-term visa application from Russian citizens.

30/09/2022

Russia

France investigates 'death threats' against Russian rights activist

Vladimir Osechkin's NGO revealed prisoners in Russia were being recruited to fight in Ukraine.

21/09/2022

Bulgaria

Bulgaria risks violating EU principles over Russia extradition request

The Russian dissident who burned his passport is appealing against a Bulgarian court's decision to extradite him, amid concern for the safety of others who fled to the EU after the invasion of Ukraine.

12/08/2022

My Europe Series

Russian who burned passport in war protest faces extradition back home

“The case against him is a way for the Russian state to take revenge and repress another opponent of the regime in Russia,” said his wife Olga Gyurova.

09/08/2022

Russia

New fine for Russian journalist who held TV protest over Ukraine war

Marina Ovsyannikova was convicted of "discrediting" the Russian military on Facebook, her lawyer said.

08/08/2022

Ukraine

Ukraine war: The latest developments you need to know

From Ukraine hoping to see the UN-brokered grain exports deal yield results to Russia's top diplomat looking for allies in Africa, these are some of the key developments in the war from Monday.

25/07/2022

Armenia

Housing prices in Yerevan surge as Russians flee to Armenia due to war

Rental prices in the Armenian capital have doubled since the Kremlin invaded Ukraine in late February, reaching parity with those in major Russian centres like St Petersburg.

17/07/2022

Germany

Russian man on trial in Germany for allegedly planning to kill Chechen

The suspect is alleged to have accepted an order to kill a Chechen opposition member who was living in exile.

15/06/2022

The Cube

Russia makes first conviction for 'fake news' over Ukraine posts

Pyotr Mylnikov was fined 1 million rubles (€15,000). A video clip circulated online purporting to show him 'confessing' to fostering 'a negative attitude' about the war.

02/06/2022

Culture news

'Rock star' Russian dissident Limonov gets film tribute

Ben Whishaw will play the founder of the National Bolshevik Party in a film by Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov, who was recently released from a suspended prison sentence.

12/05/2022