Democracy and Media

Media crackdown

The Kremlin moves against independent journalists — thousands could end up as "foreign agents"

Media freedom

Barents Observer opens another door through Russia's censorship wall

Police persecution of Andrey Borovikov is politically motivated, says human rights watchdog

Troubled democracy

Russia moves to further curb protests

Navalny's man in Arkhangelsk faces 6 years in jail for sharing of Rammstein music video

Norway follows EU on Russia sanctions over Navalny poisoning

Karelian Supreme Court toughens sentence against Yury Dmitriyev to 13 years

Navalny's man in Arkhangelsk is pulled in by police

Activist from Arkhangelsk showing solidarity with Belarus fined by police

Local elections

Fraud and intimidation as local opposition groups challenge Putin's elites in regional vote

Eyes on elections

"No hint of protest in this rally," says performance activist as she stages show in front of north Russian Election Commission

Press release

Barents Observer is ready to take Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor to Supreme Court

Violetta detained in Murmansk for single-person picket in support of Navalny

Political opposition

Kremlin critic Navalny in coma after ‘poisoning’

A Gulag historian returns to prison

Norway, Russia border closed for normal traffic until at least August 20

In Syktyvkar, man in Putin mask stains Constitution with paint

Norway's celebration of Svalbard Treaty was followed by ardent and coordinated response from Moscow media

Appeal case "Barents Observer vs Roskomnadzor" comes up in Moscow court

Historian Yuri Dmitriev remains locked up in detention facility haunted by COVID-19. Regional supreme court turns down plea for early release

Future of journalism is under threat, warns press freedom organization

Armed Forces relocate Navalny's man in Novaya Zemlya

A champion in Murmansk media quits because of censorship

Moscow disinforms about coronavirus, says press freedom organization

At militarized Arctic archipelago Novaya Zemlya serves a trapped conscript from Aleksey Navalny's Anti-Corruption Fund

Mother from Murmansk lost son in Army, wins case in European Court

FSB raids homes of Yehovah's Witnesses in Murmansk, detains believers

The human rights organization that studies Stalin horrors is fined 21 times for violations of foreign agent law

Russia backs penalties for attending ‘Undesirable’ courses abroad

New report

Free media on the scaffold. Harder times for journalists in the North

Putin increases fines for ‘Foreign Agents’

Petrozavodsk court extends arrest of researcher of Stalin’s repressions Yuri Dmitriev

News journal published in indigenous language, was punished by media inspectors

Russian journalists and bloggers with income from abroad can now be labelled ‘foreign agents’

Tatiana’s right to hold a picket in solidarity with Pussy Riot up for ECHR judgments

Russia removes critical voices ahead of Arctic Council chairmanship, claims Indigenous peoples expert

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