Siberia.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Russian Service.
A court in the Siberian city of Kemerovo on June 7 sentenced noted human rights defender Dmitry Kamynin to 18 years in prison for allegedly distributing illegal drugs, a charge he and his supporters call retaliation by local authorities for his rights activities.
Banks in Kazakhstan, Armenia, and Hong Kong have started blocking payments for deliveries of electronics to Russia to avoid U.S. sanctions for helping Moscow evade Western penalties imposed over its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Russia's Investigative Committee said on June 7 that it has started investigating the disappearance of the wife and teenage son of the North Korean Council Choi En Nam in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on June 7 that a resident of the country’s Far East had been detained on a charge of high treason amid a growing number of such cases in recent months.
Andrei Vereshchak, the jailed former warden of Correctional Colony No. 15 in the Siberian city of Angarsk, was handed an additional 10 years in prison on charges of abuse of office and bribe-taking,
Isa Khashiyev, a former lawmaker in the Siberian city of Minusinsk, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for ordering the assassination of an editor of the Ton-M newspaper in 2016.
A court in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on May 25 sentenced five inmates to prison terms between 10 years and 11 years for torturing other inmates at the warden's order, one of a spate of similar cases.
Actors in the Siberian city of Irkutsk have asked authorities to remove a large banner with the letter "Z" -- a sign of support for Russia's war against Ukraine -- from the theater's facade, after the banner was pelted with rotten eggs and a green liquid known as "zelyonka."
Maria Ponomarenko, who was sentenced to six years in prison in February on a charge of discrediting the Russian military, has been transferred to a prison in the city of Krasnoyarsk, 1,000 kilometers away from her native city of Barnaul, where her children are staying with their grandparents.
A Siberian court has sent to pretrial detention a man suspected of setting an out-of-service Su-24 military plane on fire at the Novosibirsk Aviation Plant in early May.
In an attempt to prevent the evasion of sanctions imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, Kazakhstan has introduced stricter customs controls on electronics sold to Russian companies that come through the Central Asian country.
A military court in Siberia said on May 4 that it had two days earlier sentenced Ansaghan Moldakhmetov, a Kazakh citizen, to 13 years in prison for throwing Molotov cocktails at a conscription center in the city of Omsk in May last year.
Siberian journalist Maria Ponomarenko, who was sentenced to six years in prison in February on a charge of discrediting Russia's military, says she will be transferred to a remote location from her native Altai region, which is a violation of her two children's right to regularly visit their mother.
An actor from a theater in Russia’s Siberian region of Buryatia, who in March slit his wrists while on stage to protest the firing of the company's artistic director over his stance against Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, has left the country.
A court in Russia has cut the 16 1/2-prison term of the ex-mayor of the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok, Oleg Gumenyuk, to 12 years. The
A Kazakh student at a Russian university was abducted and taken to a Wagner mercenary training camp, his family says. Later he was sent into combat in Ukraine despite never signing a contract. His mother has sought the help of Russian prosecutors and the Kazakh Embassy in a bid to bring him home.
A court in Russia’s Far Eastern city of Vladivostok has sentenced a Jehovah's Witness to eight years in prison amid a crackdown on the religious group.
Three workers died on April 24 while repairing an auxiliary dry dock at the Korsakov port on Russia's Pacific island of Sakhalin.
A Kazakh student at Tomsk State University in Siberia, Marghulan Bekenov, was forced to join the Russian private mercenary group Wagner in March, his mother says.
The governor of the Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia, Aleksandr Uss, has resigned after his son Artyom escaped house arrest in Italy, where he faced extradition to the United States, and appeared in Russia.
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