Kseniya Fadeeva, a 31-year-old municipal deputy in Tomsk, was prosecuted for 'organising an extremist group.' Her real transgression was to have acted like a free citizen in an unfree society. Since 2017, she served as coordinator of the local branch of Navalny's movement. 2/4

A Moscow court has issued an outrageous posthumous verdict in the “LGBT extremism” case against Andrei Kotov. The 48-year-old director of a travel agency was arrested last December and committed suicide in jail. Now, the court finds him guilty en.zona.media/article/2025/1…

🚨 Russian riot police raided a circus-themed party in Tomsk, Siberia, after an anonymous tip-off that it was promoting "LGBT propaganda” Seven people were detained Ordinary Russians are now turning informants on suspected LGBTs & private LGBT+ parties novayagazeta.eu/articles/2025/…

This is a new low from a govt plumbing the depths of performative cruelty in hopes that the public won’t notice they have no answers to the real issues facing this country A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings

My research has found that almost all the billions of bio beads used in ageing sewage plants are on England’s south coast- after a catastrophic spill on Camber Sands. Link below

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DAY 1110 of 1257 of my daily photo commitment to #Belarus political prisoners: ALIAKSEI PROKHARCHYK, was taken on Nov 29, 2024 on returning from his father’s funeral in Russia. His “crime”: providing food assistance to victims of repression through the INeedHelpBy initiative...

The Holodomor was a series of artificial famines by the USSR in 1921–1923, 1932–1933, and 1946–1947. The most devastating (1932–1933) was a genocide of Ukrainians, taking millions of lives. Remember those who died of hunger on their own land. Remember those responsible for it🧵

A 23-year-old flight attendant was sentenced to 7 years for insulting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. This is likely the first such severe sentence. In January of this year, Varvara Volkova, a flight attendant from the Moscow region, posted several messages in a chat

A hairdresser from Leningrad Oblast has been sentenced to five years and two months in prison for "spreading fakes about the army". A neighbour informed on her after she sent her a video of the execution of a Ukrainian POW.

“In Ryanair’s world, it’s a passenger’s responsibility to bypass anyone in need” What a shit bunch of heartless feckless cheapskates you are ⁦Ryanair⁩ theguardian.com/money/2025/nov…

Nigel Farage thinks this is "playground banter" #FarageOut #FarageFiles

"My friends died at the hands of Russian soldiers. Why can't I talk about it?" This question will cost Varvara Volkova 7 years in a Russian penal colony 🧵Here's her story [1/7]

"After the Russian shelling and bombing, not a single house in my district was left undamaged. Whole blocks of flats were in ruins." Why a Russian woman living in Kharkiv fought on Ukraine's side - and has been jailed for 19 years peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/i-d…

Belarusian prosecutors have opened a criminal case for “extremism” against Novaya Gazeta Europe correspondent Iryna Khalip, the journalist told Novaya Gazeta Europe on Thursday. ⤵️

Yulia Lemeshchenko, 42, Russian citizen and Ukrainian powerlifting champion, has been sentenced by Russia to 19 years in prison on charges of treason, sabotage, and preparation of a terrorist attack. Here is her closing statement in court: en.zona.media/article/2025/1…

Journalist from Yakutia Sasha Alexandrova has been sentenced to three years in prison for "justifying terrorism on the internet" for "critical posts" on Telegram. Details of the case were kept secret. Alexandrova left Russia in 2022 but returned in 2024.

A Russian woman who has been attempting to raise the profile of her missing Chechen friend, who is widely believed to have been murdered by her own family in a so-called “honour killing”, was ordered to spend 10 days in prison on Thursday for staging a solo picket. ⤵️