More from: Civil society and Media

More prison for Sergey Mokhnatkin

The human rights defender was due to be released from prison in Arkhangelsk before December. That did not happen.
December 04, 2018

Eco-group Bellona continues to work in Russia, despite being declared foreign agents

«We won’t throw away our very important work over such small change,» says Aleksandr Nikitin, Chairman of ERC Bellona.
January 17, 2017

Protested abolishment of ministry of environment, was detained by police

Activist Nina Ananina staged a silent protest in front of the Komi government building. She was not allowed to stand there long.
October 24, 2016

Border town newspaper saved last minute from closure

We are now looking for a new way forward, which secures our economy and promotes good journalism, Editor of Sør-Varanger Avis Tor Sandø says.
October 14, 2016

News agency in Murmansk fined by Election Commission

«I consider it a revenge for our disobedience», says Editor of SeverPost Dmitry Visotsky.
October 13, 2016

Human rights defenders on foreign agent list, for second time

The Russian Ministry of Justice puts International human rights society Memorial on the list of Foreign Agents. The decision is unlawful and will be appealed in court, Memorial says.
October 06, 2016

Activist Ildar Dadin sent to Karelian penal colony

He will spend up to two years in the labor camp of Segezha, the place where Mikhail Khodorkovsky was locked up.
September 30, 2016

State funding for media will be cut - Finance Ministry

An increasingly cash-strapped Russian treasury can no longer afford to pay more than 80 billion ruble to state media.
September 15, 2016

Levada Centre pollster listed as foreign agent ahead of elections

Vladimir Putin’s ruling party United Russia got all time low in the latest poll before the Ministry of Justice took action.
September 06, 2016

FSB raids environmental organization

Environmentalists in the SPOK group has since 1996 worked to protect vulnerable forest land in Karelia. This week, their offices were searched by security agents.
September 06, 2016

Oleg runs for elections with the slogan «Don’t lie, don’t steal»

Oleg Drozdov with the Yabloko Party in Murmansk runs for a seat in the State Duma, but is not allowed to do street campaigning, gets limited media coverage and zero access to the closed military towns where nearly 100.000 voters live.
August 30, 2016

Newspaper editor criticized local legislator, got fired

Nadezhda Gongeleva takes her case to court after she was dismissed from Karelian newspaper Prizyv.
August 25, 2016

Gay activists sue Murmansk, will take case to Strasbourg

Local authorities fret, while activists go to court for the right to organize a gay parade in town.
August 16, 2016

FSB detains Arkhangelsk editor

Aleksandr Sukhanov runs the site Kompromat29, which reports on regional corruption and economic crimes.
August 03, 2016

Supreme Court rules, Karelian opposition politician to remain behind bars

The disgraced former town mayor and Yabloko politician Svetlana Chechil loses appeal case.
June 29, 2016

In Kandalaksha, people stand up in protest against public services

Popular discontent is on the rise as the local heating supply company boosts electricity costs.
June 21, 2016

Traveling artists in the borderland

The Dark Ecology project has over the last three years explored people and nature along the Norwegian-Russian border.
June 17, 2016

Independent Karelian journalists acquitted in court

The regional Supreme Court rules against local police, in favor of newspaper Severnye Berega.
June 02, 2016

Per Adde - the man, the painter, the activist

One of the Barents Region's most famous painters turns 90. Meet the artist known for fighting the rights of Sami reindeer herders and the rights for rivers to flow free.
May 31, 2016

Free voices choke in Russia’s dying civil society

Additional pressure is put on the non-governmental sector as the Kremlin takes aim at independent civil society leaders.
May 31, 2016

Russian food embargo to continue out 2017

Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev wants the ban on import of foodstuffs from the U.S., EU and other countries to continue to the end of 2017.
May 27, 2016

Murmansk Mayor won regional primaries for State Duma

Aleksey Veller received more than half of the votes in United Russia’s primary elections in Murmansk on Sunday.
May 27, 2016

Railway station gets 100-years anniversary upgrade

Refurbishment yes, but not all in the scale proposed before Russia’s current economic crisis.
May 27, 2016

Murmansk court turns down LGBT activist’s appeal

Sergey Alekseenko, former head of Foreign Agent branded NGO Maximum, has to pay the 100,000 rubles fine for violating the law against propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships among minors.
May 27, 2016

Iceland will not back down on sanctions against Russia

Iceland will continue to follow the EU in its sanctions against Russia, the country’s new Foreign Minister Lilja Alfredsdottir says.
May 25, 2016

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