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Russia is notorious for its political prisoners, and the authorities have only added to this population by adopting numerous laws since the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine that outlaw most forms of anti-war self-expression. Figures like journalist Ivan Safronov and opposition politician Alexey Navalny were already locked up before the full-scale invasion, and now they're joined by politicians like Ilya Yashin and Vladimir Kara-Murza. As relatively unknown activists are dragged into court for minor anti-war actions and the Kremlin takes hostages like American journalist Evan Gershkovich, Russia's prison system is regularly in the news, but how is it actually built and what's life like for those inside and their loved ones on the outside? For answers, Meduza turns to Professor Judith Pallot, the research director of the Gulag Echoes project at the University of Helsinki's Aleksanteri Institute (you can find the project's blog here), and journalist Ksenia Mironova, the cohost of the Time No Longer (Времени больше не будет) podcast, where she interviews experts and the friends and relatives of political prisoners. Mironova is also the partner of Ivan Safronov, another journalist now serving a 22-year “treason” sentence in prison. Timestamps for this episode: (1:48) A word from The Beet (6:31) How big is Russia's prison population? (11:01) The prison system's history of “reforms” (17:48) Is today's system reverting to the Gulag? (20:00) Conditions behind bars (28:19) Comparing the Russian and Ukrainian prison systems and appreciating civil society's oversight (34:05) Ksenia Mironova on the lives of political prisoners and their partners

Na 25 let do vězení za údajnou vlastizradu poslal soud v Moskvě tento týden opozičního politika a publicistu Vladimira Kara-Murzu. Ke 22 letům vězení byl už loni odsouzen novinář Ivan Safronov. A obvinění ze špionáže teď čelí i americký novinář Evan Gershkovich. Co tyto případy prozrazují o fungování ruské justice? O tom v dnešní epizodě mluvíme s advokátem, který obhajoval právě Safronova a který kvůli své práci nakonec musel Rusko opustit.Host: Ivan Pavlov - ruský advokát, zakladatel právnických projektů Tým 29 a První odděleníČlánek a další informace najdete na webu Seznam ZprávySledujte nás na sociálních sítích Twitter a Instagram. Náměty a připomínky nám můžete psát na e-mail zaminutusest@sz.cz

Soud v Moskvě poslal na 22 let do vězení se zvýšenou ostrahou ruského novináře Ivana Safronova. Ten byl obžalován kvůli údajné spolupráci s českou rozvědkou. Podle agentury TASS jde v Rusku o nejpřísnější verdikt udělený za trestný čin vlastizrady za poslední roky. Z uniklých dokumentů obžaloby ale plyne, že Safronov prostě jen umí vyhledávat informace na internetu. Co rozsudek říká o ruské spravedlnosti? A je Ivan Safronov politický vězeň? V podcastu hovoří reportérka Deníku N Petra Procházková. Moderuje Vítek Svoboda.

In Russia i giornali li chiudono e i giornalisti li arrestano. Ivan Safronov lo hanno condannato a 22 anni di carcere in un processo a porte chiuse di cui, quindi, non si sa niente. Noi stessi neanche lo sapremmo se la notizia non fosse stata diffusa da “Novaya Gazeta Europa”, ovvero il sito europeo del quotidiano fatto chiudere da Mosca.

Ivan Safronov's trial has been widely seen as politically motivated and a new step in the Kremlin's crackdown on its critics and the media

Liz Truss will be the new UK prime minister after defeating Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership contest. It was a closer contest than some analysts predicted, with Truss taking 57% of valid votes cast among Conservative Party members. We hear reaction from a Conservative Party MP and the UK's former ambassador to the United States. Also on the programme: we speak to a friend of Ivan Safronov, the Russian reporter who has been handed a 22-year jail term after being convicted of treason charges by a Moscow court; and China becomes the first country to approve an inhaled Covid vaccine. (Image: Liz Truss outside the Conservative Party headquarters, London, September 5, 2022. REUTERS/Phil Noble)

The Moscow City Court announced the verdict on journalist Ivan Safronov - 22 years in a strict regime colony, a fine of 500 thousand rubles and two years of restriction of freedom after his release. - Московский городской суд огласил приговор журналисту Ивану Сафронову по делу о государственной измене - 22 года колонии строгого режима, штраф 500 тысяч рублей и два года ограничения свободы после освобождения.

Med ukrepi za skrajševanje čakalnih dob je tudi nagrajevanje zaposlenih ob povečanih obremenitvah. Kot je dejal premier Robert Golob, so finančna sredstva za reformo zdravstva na razpolago, denarja pa vlada in finančno ministrstvo ne bosta omejevala. V oddaji tudi: - Po oceni premierja Goloba ukrepi za pomoč gospodarstvu v boju z energetsko draginjo vredni več kot 1,5 milijarde evrov. Ukrepe bo odslej predlagala skupina predstavnikov vlade in gospodarstvenikov. - Evropski trg električne energije je treba srednjeročno reformirati za zagotavljanje usklajenosti med cenami in realnimi proizvodnimi stroški, je sporočil francoski predsednik Macron - Novi pritiski na ruske novinarje: sodišče Novi Gazeti odvzelo medijsko licenco, nekdanji novinar Ivan Safronov obsojen na 22-letno kazen v kazenski koloniji

Nous parlons, avec Amaury de Rochegonde, du durcissement du contrôle des médias et des voix discordantes en Russie après la dissolution de l'ONG Memorial.  « Agent de l'étranger ». C'est par ces mots que sont frappés d'opprobre, en Russie, les ONG comme Mémorial, qui vient d'être dissoute, mais aussi des médias, des journalistes et de plus en plus les avocats. Evgueni Smirnov et Ivan Pavlov, les défenseurs du reporter d'investigation Ivan Safronov, ont ainsi été contraints à l'exil après avoir reçu ce statut infamant et des poursuites pour divulgation d'informations confidentielles.  Si le cas de Mémorial, « agent de l'étranger » depuis 2016, est saisissant, ce n'est pas simplement parce que c'est une ONG symbole de la Perestroïka, fondé par le prix Nobel de la Paix Andrei Sakharov. Ou parce que ce nom reste associé à la révélation en Russie de la terreur stalinienne. C'est aussi parce que Mémorial était devenu un instrument d'informations à travers son centre de défense des droits humains - estampillé « agent de l'étranger » lui depuis 2013 - pour sa dénonciation des exactions en Tchétchénie ainsi que sa défense et son décompte des prisonniers politiques. Mercredi 5 janvier, un tribunal de Moscou décidera d'ailleurs du sort de ce centre qui enquêtait récemment sur les mercenaires de Wagner en Syrie.   ► À lire aussi : La dissolution de l'ONG Mémorial, une décision prévisible Bâtir un Internet souverain Sur la liste des « agents de l'étranger », qui rappelle le régime stalinien, on compte une centaine de médias, de journalistes, de blogueurs et même d'artistes puisque deux des Pussy Riot ont reçu ce label jeudi 30 décembre. Le chiffre est en forte augmentation puisqu'il n'y avait dans la liste que onze organisations il y a un an. Parmi les obligations de ces prétendus « agents de l'étranger », la présence d'une clause de 24 mots en gros caractères sur chaque publication, un rapport trimestriel déclaratif sur leurs activités et le paiement d'un audit annuel. Évidemment, contrevenir à ces règles entraîne des amendes et des poursuites. Mais surtout, le label déclenche un opprobre public qui détourne les annonceurs, les sources et les lecteurs, comme on l'a vu avec le site indépendant Meduza qui a intégré ce registre en avril dernier.  En Russie, il s'agit ainsi d'étouffer l'exercice du journalisme comme l'expression de toute voix discordante par rapport à la propagande d'État. Comme en Chine, l'idée est de bâtir un Internet souverain isolé des grands serveurs mondiaux d'où seront exclues les voix dissidentes. L'Occident ne reste pas muet. Le 22 décembre, le régulateur berlinois des médias a obtenu d'Eutelsat l'arrêt de la diffusion par satellite de la chaîne Russia Today ou RT en allemand pour laquelle aucune autorisation n'avait été donnée. RT, diffusée en France, est qualifié de « média affilié à un État », et uniquement sur les réseaux sociaux.  ► À lire aussi : 2021, une année marquée en Russie par la répression et les atteintes à la liberté d'expression

This week our guest on the podcast is Ivan Pavlov, a human rights lawyer specializing in freedom of information and treason cases. For many years, Ivan Pavlov headed the civil society group Team 29, which also worked to promote freedom of information in Russia. The topics of our conversation today are the persecution of lawyers in Russia, the rule of law, what reforms are needed, the history of Team 29, the right of association and the future of human rights in Russia. The questions we discuss include: 1. You are one of Ivan Safronov's lawyers. Both you and Evgeny Smirnov, another of Safronov's lawyers, are forced to live outside Russia. Question: why exactly are these measures being taken against lawyers now? 2. Is the legal professional community able to stand up for itself? 3. Has Russia ever been a country where the rule of law existed? 4. What needs to be done to bring the country closer to the rule of law? What are the main steps that need to be taken to achieve this? 5. Can you tell us something about the history of Team 29? When was it created? What did it accomplish? Why was it shut down? 6. We are all following the Memorial case. One gets the impression the Russian authorities today do not want any independent civil society organizations to exist. What are the consequences of this policy for Russia? What is a country without civil society? 7. Realistically speaking, what are the prospects for fair trial in the Russian Federation? 8. What prospects are there for human rights in general? Are you an optimist or a pessimist? This podcast is in Russian. You can also listen to the podcast on our website or on SoundCloud, Podcasts.com, Spotify, iTunes and Anchor. The music, from Stravinsky's Elegy for Solo Viola, is performed for us by Karolina Herrera. Sergei Nikitin writes on Facebook: "I remember well the 1990s when we crossed a certain threshold, everyone more or less attained a degree of material well-being and began to think about having some rights, about restoring democratic values in the country. I saw that the judicial system was developing, there were some hopes. This trend lasted until about 2004 or 2005, but then developments took a rather different direction. Every person looks for some stability in their life, something on which to base their decisions. In a society governed by the rule of law, that stable basis is the law. A state where there is the rule of law is considered the most stable. But if the law is not stable, and the only ‘stability' is that a single person has been in power for a long time, it becomes easier for people to look for the signals that come from that one person rather than to the law, which is one thing today and another tomorrow. Officials today are not guided by the law, but by signals that come from that one person. The ability to change by democratic means those in power ensures the quality of life in a democracy." This is what the human rights lawyer Ivan Pavlov, who specializes in freedom of information and treason cases, told us. For several years, Ivan was the head of Team 29, an informal association of lawyers and journalists that fought the growing lack of transparency of the state in Russia. I vividly remember that in Soviet times, wherever I went to apply for a job, the hiring process necessarily included a visit to the First Department, a room with an iron door, where - as a rule - some retired man with a crazy look was sitting. These First Departments actually embodied the closed nature of the state, the total control over everything: why the hell do you need the First Department in the offices of a building restoration organisation where I worked in my youth? Ivan Pavlov in our conversation mentioned his team's new project, which he called the First Department. On Monday, he told a wider audience: "The First Department of the state bodies was engaged in the classification of documents and protection of state secrets. Often what was going on behind closed doors in the First Departments had little to do with the law and was simply arbitrary. Our First Department will fight to ensure that employees of all first departments throughout the country comply with the law, so that they do not violate your rights." Listen to our conversation with Ivan Pavlov, who temporarily left Russia but continues to do his fantastic work. Simon Cosgrove adds: ‘For further information about the past week in Russia, visit our website here.'

Save Meduza!https://support.meduza.io/enThe lawyers and journalists who worked with the Team 29 project specialized in Russia's most hopeless political prosecutions — the treason case against journalist Ivan Safronov, the extremism charges against Alexey Navalny's Anti-Corruption movement, and dozens more indictments all but doomed to convictions. Earlier this year, the project was forced to disband after Russia's federal censor started blocking its website. In November 2021, the Justice Ministry designated Team 29's former members as “foreign agents” and many of those people subsequently fled the country. Valeria Vetoshkina, today's guest on The Naked Pravda, is one of those people.  Timestamps for this week's episode: (0:00) Filmmaker Alexander Sokurov lectures Vladimir Putin about Russia's “constitutional crisis” (4:23) Analysts and experts battle in op-ed columns and online over the right strategy in Ukraine (6:46) Moving closer into the Kremlin's orbit than ever, the social network Vkontakte gets new owners (11:02) The head of Russia's Federal Investigative Committee has no sense of humor and no patience for exoneration (13:21) Human rights lawyer Valeria Vetoshkina, a former member of the now dissolved Team 29 project, describes her education in law school and the state of her field in Russia today “The Naked Pravda” comes out on Saturdays (or sometimes Fridays). Catch every new episode by subscribing at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or other platforms. If you have a question or comment about the show, please write to Kevin Rothrock at kevin@meduza.io with the subject line: “The Naked Pravda.”

Ivan Safronov, a former journalist and adviser to the head of Russia's space agency, has been in Moscow's Lefortovo remand prison for 15 months, awaiting trial for treason. The details of the charges against him remain practically unknown. Reportedly, investigators wrapped up their work at the end of October, and Safronov and his lawyers have been able to begin analyzing the case materials. During his 15 months in custody, Safronov hasn't been permitted a single visit or phone call with any of his family members, and for the last month he's also been banned from sending and receiving correspondence. Safronov was moved to a higher-security cell during the summer of 2021, and in early November he was transferred to punitive confinement for three days. Meduza traces the twists and turns of Ivan Safronov's time in jail. Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/11/03/tightening-the-screws

The final indictment in the treason case against Ivan Safronov, a former journalist and advisor to the head of Russia's space agency, has revealed new details about the accusations against him. Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/news/2021/11/02/jailed-journalist-ivan-safronov-accused-of-passing-information-about-russian-troops-in-syria-lawyer-says

Since his arrest on treason charges in July 2020, Ivan Safronov -- a former journalist and advisor to the head of Russia's space agency -- has been in custody in Moscow's Lefortovo remand prison. This entire time, he hasn't been allowed a single visit from family members or even a phone call. In July, Safronov told his lawyers that he was offered a phone call with his mother in exchange for a confession -- this proposal was put forward by Alexander Chaban, the FSB investigator leading Safronov's case. Safronov refused and, as a result, has only been able to communicate with his family through letters and, sometimes, at court hearings (though these proceedings take place behind closed doors, relatives are usually allowed to enter the courtroom for a few minutes during recesses). Last Friday, October 15, BBC News Russian reported that on orders from investigator Chaban, Safronov had been stripped of his right to send and receive correspondence. For Meduza, Safronov's lawyer Evgeny Smirnov explains the logic and the legality of this decision. Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/10/18/the-investigation-is-very-afraid

Earlier this month, "Team 29" founder and human rights lawyer Ivan Pavlov fled Russia and moved to the Republic of Georgia to escape felony prosecution for supposedly disclosing classified evidence from the treason case against former journalist Ivan Safronov, whom Pavlov was defending. Under the terms of the charges against Pavlov, he was prohibited from using the Internet or any mobile connection -- even to communicate with his client. Now that he's emigrated, Pavlov can speak to whomever he likes, and he agreed to tell Meduza why he left, when he hopes to return, and what he plans to do next. Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/09/09/they-followed-me-all-the-way-to-the-airstairs

Hours after the newspaper Vedomosti published an op-ed by imprisoned journalist Ivan Safronov, the page hosting his text suddenly became inaccessible. Not long thereafter, Vedomosti's entire website crashed. According to communications director Guzel Khairetdinova, the newspaper is under DDoS attack. She told Meduza that the attack is targeting Vedomosti's entire website, not just a single text. "The whole site is down and our technical team is doing everything it can to restore it," she explained. Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/news/2021/07/23/russian-newspaper-s-website-crashes-after-publishing-op-ed-from-journalist-charged-with-treason

A year ago today, on July 7, 2020, agents from Russia's Federal Security Service arrested 30-year-old Ivan Safronov on charges of treason - punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Then serving as an advisor to the head of Russia's space agency, Safronov worked for many years prior as a journalist at the newspapers Kommersant and Vedomosti. Meduza reviews the developments in the case over the past 12 months and looks at how Safronov and his defense team have weathered a year of uncertainty.

The legal professionals at "Team 29" specialize in Russia's most hopeless political prosecutions - the treason case against journalist Ivan Safronov, the extremism charges against Alexey Navalny's anti-corruption movement, and dozens more cases like these that are all but doomed to convictions. As a result, the Russian authorities have effectively declared Team 29 to be enemies of the state. In late April, police charged the organization's head, Ivan Pavlov, with disclosing pretrial investigation secrets. Ever since, he's been barred from using the Internet or telephone. Meduza special correspondent Alexandra Sivtsova looks at how Team 29 manages to operate under these conditions and asks why it still does.

London, 30th August- in our second episode of Trouble with the Truth, Lana Estemirova interviews Anna Nemtsova, a Moscow-based journalist for the Daily Beast.  They discuss the case of Ivan Safronov, a former journalist who was arrested and charged with treason in what appears to be a politically motivated move. A correspondent for Kommersant and Vedomosti newspapers and military reporter in the past, Ivan had been working for the Russian Space agency when he was arrested and charged. His friends and colleagues are convinced that his arrest is politically motivated. Ivan has published exclusive exposes on sensitive military topics and has been threatened on multiple occasions for his work. His father, also a journalist and columnist who covered military affairs for the daily newspaper Kommersant, died after falling from the fifth floor of his Moscow apartment building in 2007. The conversation also touches upon the rising trend of treason charges, the important role of investigative journalism and the difficulties of being an independent journalist in Putin's Russia.

This week our guest on the podcast is Aleksei Simonov, president of the Glasnost Defence Foundation since 1991. Aleksei Simonov is a Soviet and Russian film director, writer, translator, human rights activist, teacher, journalist and editor. He was a member of the Presidential Council for Promoting Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights until 2012. In this podcast, Alexei Kirillovich talks about the enormous changes that have taken place in Russia since the last years of the Gorbachev era: the rise of glasnost, the hopes of the 1990s and the deterioration in freedom of expression in the Putin era, especially since 2012. He describes the work and experience of the Glasnost Defence Foundation, the impact of the law on so-called 'foreign agents' on civil society organisations and the difficulties faced by these organisations in obtaining funding. Aleksei Kirillovich also talks about two recent trials of journalists - Svetlana Prokopyeva and Ivan Safronov. Sergei Nikitin writes on Facebook: As Aleksei Simonov once said, “I have not been burdened with government awards, but received several public awards of which I am proud.” And besides public awards, this wonderful man received what I would call universal love and respect. And by right. Last weekend Simon and I had the great pleasure to meet our mutual acquaintance, our friend Aleksei Kirillovich. The waves of the Internet brought the three of us together, although we were hundreds, even thousands of kilometres apart. I first heard the name of Aleksei Simonov many years ago when I saw the film ‘Otryad' [The Squad] that was an important event at the beginning of perestroika. Later I got acquainted Aleksei Kirillovich in person and learned of his many talents: besides being a film director, he is also a writer, translator, human rights activist, teacher, journalist and editor. And, of course, he is president of the Glasnost Defence Foundation. Simon and I talked to Aleksei Kirillovich about all this, and now the recording of an interesting conversation is available on as our latest podcast.Simon Cosgrove adds: If you want to listen to this podcast on the podcasts.com website and it doesn't seem to play, please download by clicking on the three dots to the right. A summary of some of the week's events in Russia relevant to human rights can be found on our website here. The podcast is in Russian. You can also listen to this podcast on SoundCloud, Spotify and iTunes. Music from Stravinsky's Elegy for Solo Viola is performed by Karolina Herrera.

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Save Meduza!https://support.meduza.io/enOn the morning of July 7, federal agents arrested Ivan Safronov, a longtime journalist who recently took a job as a communications adviser to Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin. Safronov is being charged with treason and faces up to 20 years in prison.  His lawyers have been granted limited access to the case file compiled by the Federal Security Service, which indicates that Safronov is suspected of selling secret information to Czech intelligence agents about Russian military cooperation with an unnamed African Middle Eastern country. The Czechs supposedly recruited him in 2012 and he allegedly sent them the data over the Internet five years later in 2017. Outside the FSB's headquarters in Lubyanka Square, during Safronov's arraignment hearing on July 7, dozens of journalists picketed, each taking turns holding up signs in his defense, and police officers arrested them, one by one, for an unlawful assembly.  To understand more about trends in policing journalists and reporting on national security in Russia, “The Naked Pravda” turns to two guests on today's show: (6:46) Rachel Denber, the deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Europe and Central Asia Division, looks back at how Russian journalists have been treated for the past 15 years. (14:49) Dmitry Gorenburg, a senior research scientist in the Strategic Studies division of CNA and an associate at the Harvard University Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (as well as the author of the Russian Military Reform blog), explains why work like Ivan Safronov's military reporting is essential. “The Naked Pravda” comes out on Fridays (or sometimes Saturdays). Catch every new episode by subscribing at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or other platforms. If you have a question or comment about the show, please write to Kevin Rothrock at kevin@meduza.io with the subject line: “The Naked Pravda.”