Siberia.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Russian Service.
A military court in the Siberian city of Chita on March 6 sentenced a resident of the Zabaikalye region to 11 years in prison for throwing a Molotov cocktail at a military recruitment center.
The governor of Russia's Siberian region of Tyva, Vladislav Khovalyg, said on March 6 that an explosion caused a fire at a major power station in the city of Shagonar, adding that rescue teams were looking for three missing people.
A court of appeals in the Siberian region of Kemerovo on March 5 rejected an appeal filed by journalist Andrei Novashov against a sentence he was handed last year over his social media posts saying Russian forces attacked civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.
A court in Russia's Irkutsk region in Siberia sentenced nine Jehovah's Witnesses to various prison terms on March 5 as a crackdown on the religious group continues.
The Telegram channel Kuzbass bez ekstremizma, which is linked to police in Russia's Kemerovo region, said on March 1 that local activist Sergei Piskunov, who was arrested last month on a charge of sexual abuse, is now also accused of violating the law on so-called foreign agents.
A court in Siberia has sent activist Sergei Piskunov to pretrial detention on a charge of "sexual abuse" until at least April 12, activist Denis Shadrin told RFE/RL on February 15.
A Russian court again refused to transfer to a less restrictive psychiatric clinic a Yakut shaman who became known across the country in 2019 for his attempts to march to Moscow to drive President Vladimir Putin out of the Kremlin.
Russian authorities detained Siberian activist Sergei Piskunov at a checkpoint along the Russian-Kazakh border and charged him with organizing an extremist group, his associates told RFE/RL on February 12.
A Siberian court sentenced former customs officer Vitaly Alekseyev to 12 years in prison on February 9 on a charge of collaborating with the Freedom of Russia legion, which consists of Russian citizens who fight alongside Ukrainian armed forces against Moscow's invasion.
Siberian artist Vasily Slonov, known for producing a series of puppets challenging Russia's Soviet past and current government, was detained on February 8 on a charge of demonstrating extremist symbols, his wife said, adding that police searched her husband's workshop and the couple's apartment.
Imprisoned Siberian anti-war activist and journalist Maria Ponomarenko's lawyer, Dmitry Shitov, told RFE/RL on February 8 that a court in Kemerovo rejected his client's appeal against her verdict and sentence.
To hear Russian officials tell it, the country is in the grips of a daunting wave of extremism. It’s not, critics say: The spike in extremism prosecutions is part of a Kremlin-driven crackdown on dissent, often combined with a dose of revenge on the local level.
Tahirjon Bakiev, an inmate with Central Asian roots who was tortured in a Siberian penitentiary, has been found dead at the correctional colony No. 6 in the Irkutsk region.
Authorities in the Siberian city of Novokuznetsk forcibly placed noted activist and blogger Igor Gorlanov in a psychiatric clinic on unspecified grounds for a third time since 2019, lawyer Aleksei Pryanishnikov said on February 5.
Ogannes Tukhmanyan, an organizer of concerts of popular Russian singer Kristina Orbakaite, said on February 5 that the entertainer's tour across Siberia next month had been canceled.
Tens of thousands of Koreans were brought over to Sakhalin as conscripted labor by the Japanese during World War II to work on the part of the island that Tokyo controlled. Many of them never saw their homeland again.
Russian police made several arrests after dozens of residents of Yakutsk gathered in a central square of the eastern Siberian city to protest the alleged murder of a local man by a suspect who they said was Tajik.
The pro-Kremlin Union of Veterans of the War in Afghanistan and Special Military Operations in Russia's Far East demanded local authorities cancel concerts scheduled for March by popular singer Kristina Orbakaite in the city of Blagoveshchensk.
Authorities in the Siberian city of Ulan-Ude on January 19 announced that a concert by popular singer Kristina Orbakaite scheduled for March 13 has been canceled due to a request by the Brothers-in-Arms NGO, which supports Moscow's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Ruslan Zinin, who shot a military commissioner at an enlistment center in Siberia in 2022 amid protests against a military mobilization for the war in Ukraine, has been sentenced to 19 years in prison.
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