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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 1d

Semyon Karmanov, a disabled Siberian man who could not read or write, has been killed in Ukraine aged 27.

He was recruited from prison, serving time for an $80 theft (of pancakes and flowers for his mom) and declared fit for combat

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Unfit to learn, fit to die. Disabled Siberian man unable to read or write is killed in Ukraine after being recruited from prison

Semyon Karmanov, a 27-year-old from Kemerovo, Siberia, who was recruited into the army from a penal colony despite having a severe intellectual disability, has been killed in Ukrai...

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 1d

Semyon Karmanov, a disabled Siberian man who could not read or write, has been killed in Ukraine aged 27.

He was recruited from prison, serving time for an $80 theft (of pancakes and flowers for his mom) and declared fit for combat

en.zona.media/article/2025...

Unfit to learn, fit to die. Disabled Siberian man unable to read or write is killed in Ukraine after being recruited from prison

Semyon Karmanov, a 27-year-old from Kemerovo, Siberia, who was recruited into the army from a penal colony despite having a severe intellectual disability, has been killed in Ukrai...

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 2d

The violence of the war isn’t staying confined to frontlines and Ukraine. Since the invasion began, military courts have charged nearly 1,000 of Russian soldiers with murder.

Our data shows the wave of violent crime is still growing: en.zona.media/article/2025...

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 2d

The violence of the war isn’t staying confined to frontlines and Ukraine. Since the invasion began, military courts have charged nearly 1,000 of Russian soldiers with murder.

Our data shows the wave of violent crime is still growing: en.zona.media/article/2025...

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 2d

Can you be tried twice for the same crime? Three times? In Putin’s Russia, yes! That’s exactly what’s happening to Ukrainian POWs.

Read our investigation: en.zona.media/article/2025...

One trial after another. Mediazona investigation finds Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russia are being prosecuted again and again

Since the first year of the war, Ukrainian soldiers and officers have faced trials in Russian courts and across the annexed territories. They are tortured, held in inhumane conditi...

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 5d

Margarita Murakhtaeva, Slavina’s daughter, was released after giving a statement

Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 6d

Predictive policing at its best in Russia: in Nizhny Novgorod, police detain the daughter of Irina Slavina for the act of remembering her mother by laying flowers, citing a notice of the impending memorial as justification for the arrest

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An inheritance of harassment. Daughter of journalist Irina Slavina detained for laying flowers at mother’s self‑immolation site

Margarita Murakhtaeva was arrested while laying flowers near the spot in Nizhny Novgorod where her mother, the journalist Irina Slavina, died by self-immolation in 2020. The detent...

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 6d

Predictive policing at its best in Russia: in Nizhny Novgorod, police detain the daughter of Irina Slavina for the act of remembering her mother by laying flowers, citing a notice of the impending memorial as justification for the arrest

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An inheritance of harassment. Daughter of journalist Irina Slavina detained for laying flowers at mother’s self‑immolation site

Margarita Murakhtaeva was arrested while laying flowers near the spot in Nizhny Novgorod where her mother, the journalist Irina Slavina, died by self-immolation in 2020. The detent...

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 6d

With dozens of cases like this in today's Russia, some end in prison sentences. Read our investigation here:

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76 criminal cases and counting. Widespread crackdown over donations to Navalny’s Anti‑Corruption Foundation targets regular supporters. A Mediazona investigation

Donation system proved less secure than expected

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 6d

In Yekaterinburg, mathematician Mikhail Volkov (left), 70, father of key Anti-Corruption Foundation figure and Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, is fined 300,000 roubles ($3,700) in a case of “financing extremism,” for donating 2,000 roubles ($25) to the foundation.

Photo: Mediazona

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 6d

While there’s no clarity behind the reasoning, Panahi’s film features a storyline involving the kidnapping of an intelligence officer by former victims of torture. Perhaps, in Russia, this alone felt a little too on the nose

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 6d

The film, set to open in Russia on October 30, just won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and is France’s Oscar submission. Yet prestige counts for less than potential plotlines Moscow would rather not revisit

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 6d

Russia’s Culture Ministry has denied distribution rights to “A Simple Accident”, the Cannes-winning film by Iranian director Jafar Panahi.

Official reasoning: “other cases defined by federal law”

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 8d

Widowed, Maksakova stayed in Ukraine, kept performing, and spoke out. She was sentenced over a TV interview suggesting support for the Ukrainian army—plus the inevitable “foreign agent” charge, since she was on that list too

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 8d

They left for Ukraine. In Kyiv, Voronenkov testified against ousted president Viktor Yanukovich and spoke out against the Kremlin. In 2017, he was shot dead in Kyiv in broad daylight. Ukrainian officials called it a political assassination

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 8d

Maksakova is not an outsider. She was a prominent MP for United Russia, Putin’s party, while her husband Denis Voronenkov served as an MP from the KPRF party. They were a poster couple of the Duma before abruptly leaving the country in 2016

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 8d

Opera singer and former Duma MP Maria Maksakova was just sentenced to four and a half years in prison, in absentia. Her “crime” is speech: public statements critical of Moscow, deemed “calls for extremist activity.” She lives in exile in Ukraine

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 9d

Medvedev is a prominent political scientist and op-ed writer who used to teach in Moscow, now in Prague. He was already branded a “foreign agent”, the state’s official label for anyone critical of the Kremlin.

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 9d

The prosecution didn’t elaborate beyond saying that Medvedev published “knowingly false information” “on the use of the Russian Armed Forces for the purpose of protecting the interests of the Russian Federation and its citizens”. Perfect loop

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 9d

In Russia, the service economy is so strong, you can now get a 10-year prison sentence for speech crimes delivered to your inbox.

Political scientist Sergey Medvedev was convicted in absentia for army “discreditation” by spreading “fake news” about it. How? We have no clue

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 9d

Putin has signed a law pulling Russia out of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture (Russia joined in 1996).

International monitors, who last saw Russian prisons in 2021, will now lose all access. Prisoners, including captured Ukrainians, routinely report torture

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 10d

Our database of Russian war losses in Ukraine now has 132K+ verified names.

Read our report in English: en.zona.media/article/2025...
French: zona.media/article/2025...
Spanish: zona.media/article/2025...
German: zona.media/article/2025...

And support Mediazona: donate.zona.media/en

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 12d

This week marks the 3rd anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s “partial mobilization,” announced on Sept 21, 2022, and still not formally ended.

Over 3 years, we have confirmed at least 15,100 deaths among mobilized soldiers

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 12d

Mise à jour de la liste établie par Mediazona des pertes russes dans la guerre contre l'Ukraine. Sur les 132 615 soldats tués :
- 5 738 officiers
- 37 554 volontaires
- 18 344 détenus

Données complètes ici : zona.media/article/2025...

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 12d

Diese Woche jährt sich zum dritten Mal die „Teilmobilisierung“ Putins. Mindestens 15.100 mobilisierte Soldaten starben, meist Männer zwischen 33-35.

Ein Update unserer Liste der russischen Verluste im Krieg gegen die Ukraine: zona.media/article/2025...

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 12d

An update of Mediazona’s list of Russian losses in the war with Ukraine. Of the 132,615 soldiers killed:
- 5,738 officers
- 37,554 volunteers
- 18,344 inmates

Full data here: en.zona.media/article/2025...

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