Consideration of a lawsuit to liquidate Memorial On November 25, 2021, the Supreme Court began consideration of the General Prosecutor's Office's lawsuit to liquidate International Memorial. The judge is Alla Nazarova. Representatives of International Memorial: Ian Rachinsky (Chairman of the Board), Elena Zhemkova (Executive Director), lawyers Henry Reznik, Mikhail Biryukov, Maria Eismont, lawyers Grigory Vaipan, Anastasia Garina, Tatiana Glushkova, Tamilla Imanova, Natalia Morozova, Natalia Secretarova. Representatives of the Prosecutor's Office,

The General Prosecutor's Office of Russia demands the liquidation of International Memorial The General Prosecutor's Office of Russia has appealed to the Supreme Court to liquidate International Memorial (the organisation is included to the "foreign agents" register). It also means the liquidation of all branches of International Memorial, namely the Human Rights Centre, the museum, the library and the archive. The General Prosecutor's Office points to systematic violations of the

Former head of Navalny's headquarters in Ufa is sent to pre-trial detention facility for two months On 10 November, Lilia Chanysheva, the former head of Alexey Navalny's headquarters in Ufa, was sent to pre-trial detention for two months on a case of establishing an "extremist society". The case is being investigated against Navalny, as well as his associates and aides. Prior to this, Lilia Chanysheva and several other former staff

Dozhd TV channel released a film about the abuse of Alexey Navalny in the penal colony Konstantin Goldenzweig produced a large report entitled "Tortures for Navalny: who he is surrounded by in the colony, how they compromise and break him". In this film, former prisoners of the penal colony No. 2 in Pokrov, where Alexey Navalny is serving his sentence, describe how they were forced to behave with Alexei. Journalists

The case of the Ingush protest leaders On November 8, a hearing was held at the Kislovodsk City Court at which the case of the leaders of the Ingush opposition was considered, namely the case of Achmed Barachoew, Musa Malsagow, Ismail Nalgiew, Sarifa Sautiewa, Malsag Uschakow, Bagaudin Chautiew and Barach Tschemursiew. They have been charged with organising violence at a rally in Magas in 2019. The opposition leaders are also

Alexey Navalny was registered as inclined to extremism and terrorism The administration of penal colony No. 2 in Pokrov removed the politician Alexey Navalny from the register list as inclined to escape, but put him on the register list as inclined to terrorism and extremism. This was reported on the politician's Instagram page. "A certain police officer sent a report that the convicted Navalny professes extremist and terrorist ideology. It

Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of "Novaya Gazeta", wins the Nobel Peace Prize Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of "Novaya Gazeta", and Philippine journalist Maria Ressa have won the Nobel Peace Prize. This was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo. "Since its founding in 1993, "Novaya Gazeta" has published critical articles on topics ranging from corruption, police violence, illegal arrests, election manipulation, troll factories and the use of Russian troops inside and

  Tortures in Russian prison colonies Gulagu.net human rights project has received 40 gigabytes of footage of tortures and rape of prisoners in Russian prison colonies. According to Gulagu.net founder Vladimir Osechkin, "the secret archive of the intelligence services" was given to human rights activists by a programmer who had access to the computers of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Saratov Oblast for five years during his imprisonment. In

The murder of Anna Politkovskaya: 15 years later On October 7, 2021 the statute of limitations on the murder of "Novaya Gazeta" journalist Anna Politkovskaya expired. "Novaya Gazeta" notes: "This means that those who ordered the murder, whose names have not been released to this day, have officially escaped responsibility". "The investigation has dragged on as long as it could, since the ones who ordered it was policy. And, apparently,