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“We’ll send you to your cozy Gulag”. Russian asylum seekers join hunger strike in Georgia ICE facility describing neglect and threats in long detention

Russian asylum seekers, some held without charge for more than two years, are among dozens of detainees on hunger strike at a ...
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“Hollywood or nightmare”. How a Ukrainian refugee accidentally learned of her estranged father’s treason arrest in Russia while scrolling Instagram

In August, Mediazona broke the story of Oleg Varyukhin, the man charged with treason in Russia for paying mandatory taxes as a small business owner in Ukraine. Now, his estranged ...
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A rare retreat. Russian investigators suddenly drop “fake news about the army” criminal case against children’s hospice founder Lida Moniava

Russian authorities have dropped the criminal case alleging the spread of “fake news about the army” against Lida Moniava, ...
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From American detention to Russian prison. After asylum rejection, Leonid Melekhin received a 6‑year sentence in Russia for hanging a Putin mannequin

Photo of Melekhin crossing the U.S. border posted by “Bobr. There and Back Again (An Immigration Diary)”, a Telegram channel A military court in Yekaterinburg has sentenced Leonid Melekhin, an ...
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“They are waiting for me to die”. Crimean political prisoner Lenur Khalilov was released because of his cancer—and then returned to prison

Lenur Khalilov, the 58-year-old former head of the independent Muslim community “Alushta”—sentenced to 18 years in prison for ...