A teenager has been sentenced in Russia to five years in a penal colony for allegedly taking part in the Russian Freedom Legion. Arseny Turbin, a 16-year-old schoolboy, who was sentenced in Russia to five years in an educational colony under the article on participation in a terrorist organisation (part 2, article 205.5 of the Criminal Code) for allegedly taking part in the Russian Freedom Legion, has lost 17 kilograms

At the end of February 2023, 16-year-old gymnasium student Yegor Balazeikin smashed a Molotov cocktail against the wall of a military recruitment office in the Leningrad region. This is how the teenager decided to express his protest. In the summer of 2022, Egor's uncle died in Ukraine, who had gone on a special operation as a volunteer. After that, the young man became a convinced opponent of the SVO. The

Correctional Colony No. 19 in Volgograd Oblast, where four colony employees and four convicts were killed in a hostage situation on August 23, had the whole set of problems of the penal system. Convicts were abused here, and they slit their wrists; superiors were caught taking bribes; recruitment for the PMC “Wagner” and the regular army was conducted here - every fourth person died. Lattice under the stairs The high-security

Russia exchanges spies for political prisoners According to data available to The Insider, the released political prisoners include Evan Gershkovich, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Paul Whelan, Ilya Yashin, Alsu Kurmasheva, Andrei Pivovarov, Oleg Orlov, Alexandra Skochilenko, Lilia Chanysheva, Ksenia Fadeeva, Rico Krieger, Kevin Lik, Demuri Voronin, Vadim Ostanin, Patrick Schobel, and Herman Moyzhes. In return, Russia has received FSB operative Vadim Krasikov, along with multiple spies and fraudsters.   HOW THE TALKS

Evan Gershkovich was detained in the spring of 2023 in Ekaterinburg. Russian authorities accused him of espionage. According to the investigators, the journalist was commissioned by the CIA to collect information about Uralvagonzavod, which manufactures and repairs military equipment. The investigation claims that this information constitutes a state secret. Courts regularly extend the journalist's stay in pre-trial detention. Gershkovich does not admit guilt, insisting that he was engaged in Russia