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- 'Discreditation' for gain, and confiscation Laws
- 'Siloviki' Glossary
A
- A child or teenager has been detained Guide
- A criminal case for a 'foreign agent' after one fine Laws
- A family member is charged over donations: what the family can do Guide
- A prisoner's family: divorce, child support, power of attorney, property Guide
- A relative died in SIZO or a penal colony Guide
- A relative was detained or went missing, or police came to the family What happened
- About About
- Abroad and wanted in Russia What happened
- Accused of treason, espionage or 'helping Ukraine' What happened
- Accused, charged person (obvinyaemy) Glossary
- Administrative arrest, 'days' (sutki) Glossary
- Administrative cases in absentia and arrest of property of people abroad Laws
- Administrative court case: defending yourself Guide
- Administrative detention (administrativnoe zaderzhanie) Glossary
- Administrative expulsion (vydvorenie) Glossary
- Administrative offence report (protokol) Glossary
- Administrative supervision (administrativny nadzor) Glossary
- After leaving: loans, pension and working for a Russian employer Guide
- Alternative civilian service (AGS) Glossary
- Am I on a list? Check
- Appeal and cassation Glossary
- Appointed lawyer (advokat po naznacheniyu) Glossary
- Army 'fakes' Glossary
- Arrest in absentia (zaochny arest) Glossary
- Article 51 of the Constitution Glossary
- Article 51: how to refuse to testify Guide
- Asylum (ubezhishche) Glossary
- Asylum: application, interview, refusal What happened
B
- Being taken to a police station (dostavlenie) Glossary
- Belarus: doctors, the police and compulsory treatment Guide
- Belarus: lists and articles Speech offences
- Belarus: new administrative penalties for spreading information Laws
- Belarus: someone reported you Guide
- Belarus: subscriptions and phone checks Safety
- Belarus: the State Control Committee gets access to bank data Laws
C
- Called in for a 'chat' or for questioning Guide
- Called up from the reserve: training camps, the 'special reserve', reservist mobilisation What happened
- CAO (KoAP) Glossary
- Certificate of return Glossary
- Colony regime Glossary
- Complaints to the UN and ECHR after Russia left the Council of Europe Guide
- Confiscation of cryptocurrency Laws
- Conscription and mobilisation What happened
- Contacting rights groups more safely Safety
- Convicted person (osuzhdyonny) Glossary
- Corrections Corrections
- CPC (UPK) Glossary
- Criminal case What happened
- Criminal Code (UK) Glossary
- Criminal record (sudimost) Glossary
D
- Defendant (podsudimy) Glossary
- Defender in an administrative case Glossary
- Deportation Glossary
- Detained abroad: immigration detention, deportation What happened
- Detained or summoned for questioning What happened
- Detention of a suspect (zaderzhanie) Glossary
- Discrediting the army Glossary
- Doctors and the police: medical checks, psychiatric assessment, confidentiality Guide
- Documents abroad What happened
- Documents abroad: passport, powers of attorney, the 284-FZ register What happened
- Donations and subscriptions: the risks for Belarusians Guide
- Donations, Telegram Stars and money What happened
- Draft raids and same-day conscription What happened
- Drugs planted on you Guide
E
- Entry ban Glossary
- European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) Glossary
- Exit ban Glossary
- Extradition (vydacha) Glossary
- Extradition request or expulsion from Georgia or Armenia What happened
- Extremist formation (Belarus) Glossary
- Extremist materials Glossary
- Extremist materials (Belarus) Glossary
- Extremist organisation Glossary
F
- Fines for searching for 'extremist' materials Laws
- Fleeing the North Caucasus: women, LGBTQ+, pressure from family or security forces What happened
- For relatives of political prisoners: letters, parcels, help Guide
- Foreign agent (inoagent) Glossary
G
- Getting out early: parole, a lighter sentence, pardon Guide
- Going AWOL and desertion (SOCh) Glossary
- Google and Apple accounts: cloud, location, Find My Safety
H
- Harsher penalties for leaving a unit for those released under a contract Laws
- Help others Help others
- Helping family and prisoners from abroad What happened
- Helping someone close to you leave: how not to harm them or yourself Guide
- High treason (gosizmena) Glossary
- House arrest (domashny arest) Glossary
- How to document torture, trauma and pressure for a complaint or asylum What happened
I
- I am being tried or was convicted in absentia What happened
- I am on the Rosfinmonitoring list What happened
- I live under Russian occupation: passport, home, conscription, checks What happened
- I want to leave the occupied territories What happened
- I want to move back to Russia for good What happened
- I'm being deported to Russia from a third country What happened
- I've been designated a foreign agent What happened
- If your account was hacked or you suspect surveillance Safety
- If your phone was taken and given back Safety
- In Kazakhstan or Kyrgyzstan and wanted by Russia What happened
- Interim measures Glossary
- Internet and phone shutdowns at the FSB's demand Laws
- Interpol Red Notice Glossary
- Interpol, surveillance and abductions Guide
J
- Journalist or blogger in Central Asia What happened
- Justifying terrorism Glossary
K
L
- Lawyers Lawyers
- LGBTQ+ people in danger What happened
- Likes, reposts, comments, Stars: what is risky Safety
M
- MAX and Russian apps Safety
- Messaging, VPNs and blocking What happened
- Migrant: on the register of controlled persons, facing expulsion or pressure to sign a military contract What happened
- Military registration when you are abroad Guide
- Money, banks and taxes after leaving What happened
- Motion, written request (khodataystvo) Glossary
- My account was hacked or I suspect surveillance What happened
- My family is being pressured while I'm abroad What happened
- My flat or accounts were arrested: what it means and what to do Guide
N
- Need psychological support What happened
- Need to leave, asylum What happened
- New controls on 'foreign agents' Laws
- News News
- Non-refoulement Glossary
- Not allowed to leave Russia because of a summons What happened
O
- Officers ask your relatives to sign something: what it is and what to do Guide
- Old posts and subscriptions: clean up or not Safety
P
- Parcels and visits in SIZO and penal colonies Guide
- Pardon (pomilovanie) Glossary
- Parole (UDO) Glossary
- Persecuted by Azerbaijan, at home or abroad: journalists, activists What happened
- Persecuted in Georgia: protests, fines, 'foreign agents' What happened
- Persecuted in Kazakhstan What happened
- Persecuted in Kyrgyzstan What happened
- Phone being checked What happened
- Phone checks at the border and children without a passport Laws
- Planning a trip back to Russia What happened
- Plea deal (sdelka so sledstviem) Glossary
- Plea deals and the special procedure: what they give and the risks Guide
- Political prisoners Political prisoners
- Pre-trial detention centre, custody (SIZO) Glossary
- Pressure on children and parents: school, university, child services What happened
- Pressure on journalists What happened
- Pressured or forced to sign a military contract What happened
- Prison transfer: a relative has been moved and gone silent Guide
- Prisoner transfer (etap) Glossary
- Prosecuted for what you said online What happened
- Psychologists and communities abroad What happened
- Public Monitoring Commission (ONK) Glossary
- Punishment cell and cell-type unit (ShIZO, PKT) Glossary
- Punishment cells and hunger strikes Guide
Q
R
- Refugees and migrants in Russia What happened
- Register of people abroad: passports, powers of attorney, accounts Laws
- Released / deported What happened
- Released from prison What happened
- Residence permit (VNZh) Glossary
- Restrictive (preventive) measure (mera presecheniya) Glossary
- Retained lawyer (advokat po soglasheniyu) Glossary
- Return commission (Belarus) Glossary
- Returning to Ukraine-controlled territory: checks, mobilisation, documents What happened
- Rosfinmonitoring list Glossary
- Russia: 'extremism' and 'terrorism' Speech offences
- Russia: if you are abroad Speech offences
- Russia: money and designated organisations Speech offences
- Russia: religion, history, 'traditional values', 'disrespect for authorities' Speech offences
- Russia: words about the war Speech offences
- Russian or Belarusian in Armenia What happened
- Russian or Belarusian in Georgia What happened
S
- Safety Safety
- Search (obysk) Glossary
- Searching for a detained civilian or a deported child What happened
- Seizure of property and accounts of those who left Guide
- Sentence taking effect Glossary
- SIM card, phone number, Gosuslugi, banks Safety
- Single-person picket: what to expect Guide
- Some prisoners no longer serve their sentence near home Laws
- Someone close is at war: refusing to fight, AWOL, missing or captured What happened
- Someone close is detained / a political prisoner What happened
- Someone close is in prison What happened
- Someone close is missing or imprisoned in Central Asia What happened
- Someone reported me, I was fired or expelled What happened
- Special proceedings (Belarus) Glossary
- State-appointed lawyer: accept or not? Guide
- Summoned by the KGB or police What happened
- Summons (povestka) Glossary
- Summons register Glossary
- Summons: who sent it? Guide
- Support Support
- Suspect (podozrevaemy) Glossary
T
- Taking a child abroad when the other parent objects Guide
- Telegram: a 5-minute privacy setup Safety
- Temporary holding facility (IVS) Glossary
- Terrorist organisation Glossary
- The 284-FZ register Glossary
- The consulate refuses a passport or documents What happened
- The register of people abroad: Law 284-FZ Guide
- Torture and violence by security forces What happened
- Travelling to Belarus / the border What happened
- Trial in absentia (zaochny sud) Glossary
- Trials in absentia for lesser 'political' articles Laws
U
- Ukrainians: leaving Russia and occupied territories What happened
- UN Human Rights Committee Glossary
- Undertaking not to leave (podpiska o nevyezde) Glossary
- Undesirable organisation (nezhelatelnaya organizatsiya) Glossary
- Urgent Urgent
- Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan: family pressured, persecuted abroad What happened
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- Wanted list (rozysk) Glossary
- What organisations' designations mean Glossary
- What you can be punished for online: a map of offences Speech offences
- Where to find us Site addresses
- Witness (svidetel) Glossary