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Sverdlovsk Oblast: What's Happening? Political Repression, Detentions, Pressure - 4

24.07.2025
Sverdlovsk Oblast
A resident of Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals, has been placed under house arrest in a case concerning “fake” news about the military.
22.07.2025
Sverdlovsk Oblast,
Udmurt Republic
An elderly man from Izhevsk has been released from punishment in the case concerning leaflets from the Freedom of Russia Legion.
22.07.2025
Other,
Sverdlovsk Oblast
A criminal case has been opened against the former editor-in-chief of TochkaNews under anti-terrorism legislation.
18.07.2025
Sverdlovsk Oblast
A resident of Yekaterinburg will be tried on charges of financing the Ukrainian church “Vozrozhdenie” (“Revival”).
18.07.2025
Sverdlovsk Oblast
A resident of Novouralsk, a city in the Urals, was sentenced to compulsory community service in connection with the case of the Ukrainian church “Vozrozhdenie” (“Revival”).
18.07.2025
Sverdlovsk Oblast
A resident of Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals, is on trial over a monthly automatic payment to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK)
10.07.2025
Sverdlovsk Oblast
A PR specialist from Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals, has experienced paralysis of part of their face and inflammation of a facial nerve while in the penal colony.
09.07.2025
Sverdlovsk Oblast
Sentences for three “USSR citizens” from Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals, have been reduced.
08.07.2025
Sverdlovsk Oblast
A resident of Sverdlovsk region has been convicted over comments in support of the ‘Freedom of Russia’ legion.
04.07.2025
Sverdlovsk Oblast
A resident of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug accused of spreading “war fake news” is not being given medication in pre-trial detention and is facing threats of violence.
03.07.2025
Sverdlovsk Oblast
A resident of the Urals who lit a cigarette from the Eternal Flame has been sentenced to community service.
02.07.2025
Sverdlovsk Oblast
The case against the Urals priest for discrediting the army turned out to be linked to Prigozhin’s video address
28.06.2025
Russia,
Sverdlovsk Oblast
The Ministry of Justice has demanded the dissolution of the Russian All-People’s Union party.
25.06.2025
Sverdlovsk Oblast
In Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals, an officer who spoke out against the war in Ukraine has been sentenced to 18 years on charges of treason.
25.06.2025
Sverdlovsk Oblast
Police visited activists in Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals region.
19.06.2025
Sverdlovsk Oblast
Letters are not being passed on to a defendant in the ‘Tyumen case’ at the pre-trial detention centre in Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals.
18.06.2025
Sverdlovsk Oblast
A new criminal case has been opened against the defendant in the Anti-Torture Project case.
17.06.2025
Sverdlovsk Oblast
The prosecutor’s office wants to change the sentence for the “esoteric investigator” from Yekaterinburg, a large city in the Urals.
06.06.2025
Sverdlovsk Oblast
A typist from Sverdlovsk Region has been sentenced to 20 years for attempting to set fire to a military recruitment office.
05.06.2025
Sverdlovsk Oblast
Security forces have raided the offices of the pro-government outlet URA.RU
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