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Mikhail Afanasyev, the imprisoned editor-in-chief of the Novy fokus (New Focus) online newspaper covering the Siberian region of Khakassia, has been given a 2024 Free Media Award for journalistic bravery.
Russia's Investigative Committee said on September 17 that nine people were arrested in the Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk after the deaths of three people who died while receiving IV treatments.
Jailed Russian anti-war activist and journalist Maria Ponomarenko has started a hunger strike to protest a new charge laid against her and a prison report saying she was reprimanded seven times for violating penitentiary rules.
A military court in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk said on September 12 that it sentenced Private Oleg Gorbachyov of the Russian armed forces to 8 years in prison for beating his wife to death.
Two more former convicts recruited by the Wagner mercenary group have been handed lengthy prison terms for murders in Siberia.
A court in the Russian city of Tomsk on September 9 sentenced the former governor of the Siberian Tomsk region, Dmitry Gurdin, to four years in prison on embezzlement charges.
The Russian Interior Ministry on September 5 added self-exiled military observer Yan Matveyev to its wanted list on unspecified charges.
An unknown number of Siberian homeless men are among the roughly 190,000 men Russia says it recruited this year to fight its war in Ukraine. Money, patriotism, and a desire for purpose motivate the homeless to join up, but activists doubt that fighting in Ukraine will give them a “normal life.”
A court in Siberia on July 30 sentenced Sergei Mikhailov, a journalist and founder of the LIStok newspaper in the city of Gorno-Altaisk, to 8 years in prison on a charge of distributing false information about the Russian military.
A court in Russia's Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk on August 30 sentenced activist Zigmund Khudyakov to 23 days in jail for publicly wearing in January a T-shirt with a picture of late opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was shot dead near the Kremlin in 2015.
Large portraits of Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin, the deceased founders of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, appeared in Narym park in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk on August 23, the first anniversary of their deaths in a suspicious plane crash.
Russian film director Ivan Vyrypayev has been retried and sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison in absentia on the charge of "discrediting the Russian armed forces."
Russia's Investigative Committee said on August 5 that a court in Moscow sent to pretrial detention Vyacheslav Akhmedov, the director of the Defense Ministry's Patriot Park near the capital, on fraud charges.
The Olekminsk district court in Russia's Siberian region of Sakha-Yakutia sentenced a man to 5 1/2 years in prison for severely beating his wife and cutting off her nose and an ear, the court said on July 30.
A court in Siberia on July 30 extended by one year the 19-year prison term of Ruslan Zinin, who shot a military commissioner at an enlistment center in the city of Ust-Ilimsk in 2022 amid protests against a military mobilization for the war in Ukraine.
Prosecutors asked a court in Siberia on July 26 to sentence Sergei Mikhailov, a journalist and founder of the LIStok newspaper in the city of Gorno-Altaisk, to 9 years in prison on a charge of distributing false information about military.
In the 1920s, Soviet authorities helped plan a city in deepest Siberia where Christians could worship freely (and be watched closely) under the light of a giant electric "sun."
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on July 18 that a court in the Siberian region of Altai Krai sentenced a 20-year-old university student to nine years in prison for sending a parcel with medicines to the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in Syria.
The Russian Interior Ministry on July 17 added two journalists -- Andrei Zakharov and Dmitry Fomintsev -- to its wanted list on unspecified charges amid an ongoing crackdown on independent media.
The Primorye regional court in Russia's Far East on July 15 rejected the appeal against a lower court's refusal in May to transfer Yakut shaman Aleksandr Gabyshev to a less restrictive psychiatric clinic.
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