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The last two weeks have seen the first convictions under broad new restrictions on LGBTQ people and their allies in Russia. Not much is known about the first

Defendant is the second charged for what Russia is routinely considering "extremist" LGBTQ rainbow symbols since its Supreme Court decision.

A court found her guilty of wearing

Some of these women have started a channel on Telegram to call for the demobilization of their soldiers. Two months before the elections, this display of discontent is a headache for the Kremlin

The Prague police are investigating threats to Czech actor Ondřej Vetchý over his support for the Skupina D campaign, which raises funds for drones for Ukraine. Source: Richard Hrdina, spokesman for the Prague police, in a comment to Seznam Zprávy Details: Hrdina said that detectives from the Prague Police Department for Combating Extremism and Terrorism learned about threats to Vetchý through the media and "on their own initiative began to investigate, determining whet...

News and analytical articles about Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

News and analytical articles about Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

A young Komi-Karelian activist announced this month that he was able to escape Russia despite being featured as a key witness in a high-profile investigation handled by the Federal Security Service (FSB).  Nikita Goldin, 18, was detained by Russian security services in the northern port city of Arkhangelsk in September and taken in for an interrogation that lasted 10 hours.  FSB operatives also raided Goldin’s apartment in search of “swastikas and explosives,” but instead found and confi...

News and analytical articles about Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

Abdulmedzhyt Seitumerov, a political prisoner from Crimea detained by Russian authorities on 24 August, was transferred from a pre-trial detention facility to Simferopol's psychiatric hospital. Source: Crimean Solidarity, citing Seitumerov's lawyer, Emil Kurbedinov Details: Kurbedinov said that this was not the first case against members of Hizb ut-Tahrir when the defendants are subjected to psychiatric examination and recognised as fully sane, and thus subject to prosecution.