To the 90th anniversary of the birth of Natalya Gorbanevskaya Human rights activist, participant in the dissident movement in the USSR Natalya Gorbanevskaya at the memorable charity evening “Do you dare to go to the square”, 2013. Photo: ITAR-TASS I first saw her in Paris in the mid-90s at the editorial office of the Russian Thought newspaper, where Gorbanevskaya worked.

Moscow said goodbye to human rights activist Nina Litvinova, who committed suicide, as she herself wrote, from “powerlessness” Nina Litvinova. Photo: Daria Kornilova Moscow said goodbye to biologist and human rights activist Nina Litvinova, who committed suicide on May 12. She was 80 years old. Zoya Svetova remembers what this amazing woman was like, whose tragic death shocked everyone who, like her, suffers from powerlessness and the inability to change the situation.

The publishing house Vidim books publishes the book “The Church Hitchhiker” by Father Alexey Uminsky and Ksenia Luchenko* Cover of the book “The Church Hitchhiker” 18+. THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) IS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED AND (OR) SENT BY FOREIGN AGENT LUCHENKO KSENIA VALERIEVNA OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN AGENT LUCHENKO KSENIA VALERIEVNA. In the summer of 2024, on Boulevard Exelmans in Paris, journalist Ksenia Luchenko* and priest Alexey Uminsky were drinking coffee.

Lawyer Maria Bonzler - about the reasons for her persecution, how to make daylight hours shorter, how to write 5 books in a pre-trial detention center in 9 months Lawyer Maria Bontzler, accused of treason, answered Novaya's questions about the reasons for her persecution, how to make daylight hours in prison impossible, and how to write five books in a pre-trial detention center in nine months. Maria Bonzler, June 26, 2025. Kaliningrad regional court.

How one of the best women's colonies turned into a “regime” zone …Hundreds of people convicted of drug trafficking are sitting here, and the administration is tightening the conditions of detention, trying to control several “political” prisoners... Zhenya Berkovich in court, 2023. Photo: Stanislav Krasilnikov / TASS The other day I received a letter from Zhenya Berkovich from the colony. For a year now she has been imprisoned in IK-3 in the village of Pribrezhny, Kostroma Region.

The case of the novices of Metropolitan Tikhon passed into the tragic farce stage in court Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov). Photo: Maxim Churusov / TASS The clergy from the inner circle of Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov), who allegedly prepared a terrorist attack against him, had their stay in custody extended. And the “secret” materials of their case were shown by “Russia-1”.

The first book about the Russian Orthodox Church of modern times has been published 18+. THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) WAS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED AND (OR) SENT BY FOREIGN AGENT KSENIA VALERIEVNA LUCHENKO OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN AGENT KSENIA VALERIEVNA LUCHENKO “With good intentions. The Russian Church and Power from Gorbachev to Putin” is the title of the published book by Ksenia Luchenko*.

A play-report for a trial in absentia in three acts Photo: Ilya Moskovets / URA.RU / TASS Boris Akunin*, Dmitry Glukhovsky*, Yuri Dud*, Anna Mongait*, Dmitry Kolezev*, Ilya Krasilshchik, Yana Troyanova*, Tatyana Lazareva*, Mark Feigin*, Maxim Kats*, Leonid Gozman*, Ilya Yashin*, Sergey Davidis - these are just a few names of Russian citizens - journalists, writers, artists, public figures who in recent years have been sentenced to real terms of punishment in absentia.

Nina Slobodchikova, sentenced to 12 years for treason, responded to Novaya’s letter before being sent to prison Photo: URA.RU / TASS Nina Slobodchikova was detained in March 2023 in Moscow. In April 2022, she transferred five thousand rubles to a Ukrainian blogger on a Sberbank card.

Mikhail Ugarov’s book “Staging the Look. About the theater where they don't play. Lectures, seminars, interviews" Mikhail Ugarov.

The court approved the verdict in the case of the defenders of Navalny. Convicts must be sent to the colony September 22, 2025. A meeting of the Vladimir Regional Court. Igor Sergunin, Alexey Lipzer and Vadim Kobzev during a court session in a video conference mode.

Sergey Khodorovich died - dissident, manager of the Solzhenitsyn Foundation, artist and friend Sergey Khodorovich. Photo: SolzhenitSyn.ru September 21, after a long illness, Sergey Khodorovich, the legendary Soviet dissident, died. From 1977, until the arrest in 1983, he was the manager of the Fund for Assistance to Political Personents and their families created in the fees of Alexander Solzhenitsyn from the publication of the book “Archipelago Gulag”. He was 85 years old.

The verdict to the authors of the play "Finist Yasny Falcon" - the director Zhenya Berkovich and the playwright Svetlana Petriychuk - were upheld Zhenya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk in court, 2024. Photo: Evgeny Kurakin for Novaya Gazeta “I am very bad,” says a little skinny woman, almost a girl. This is the director Zhenya Berkovich, sentenced to five years and seven months of the colony for staging the play “Finist Yasny Falcon”.

The cassation instance of the Supreme Court did not satisfy the complaints of the lawyers of Zhenya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk, leaving the sentence of the 2nd Western District Military Court and the appeal ruling of the Judicial Collegium of the Court of Appeal: for the director Zhenya Berkovich - five years and seven months of the colony, For the playwright Svetlana Petriychuk - five years, ten months of the colony.

The prosecutor in the appeal requires toughening the deadlines to Navalny's lawyers, the judge reveals the details and puts off the hearing Cockerels. Former lawyers Alexei Navalny - Igor Sergunin, Alexei Lipzer, Vadim Kobzev (from left to right).