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A to Z index
A
- A child or teenager has been detained Guide
- 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
- About About
- Abroad and wanted in Russia Situation
- Accused of treason, espionage or 'helping Ukraine' Situation
- Accused, charged person (obvinyaemy) Glossary
- Administrative arrest, 'days' (sutki) Glossary
- 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 Situation
B
- Being taken to a police station (dostavlenie) Glossary
- Belarus: doctors, the police and compulsory treatment Guide
- Belarus: lists and articles Speech offences
- Belarus: someone reported you Guide
- Belarus: subscriptions and phone checks Safety
C
- Called in for a 'chat' or for questioning Guide
- Certificate of return Glossary
- Colony regime Glossary
- Complaints to the UN and ECHR after Russia left the Council of Europe Guide
- Conscription and mobilisation Situation
- Contacting rights groups more safely Safety
- Convicted person (osuzhdyonny) Glossary
- Corrections Corrections
- Criminal case Situation
- Criminal record (sudimost) Glossary
D
- Defendant (podsudimy) Glossary
- Defender in an administrative case Glossary
- Deportation Glossary
- Detained abroad: immigration detention, deportation Situation
- Detained or summoned for questioning Situation
- Detention of a suspect (zaderzhanie) Glossary
- Discrediting the army Glossary
- Doctors and the police: medical checks, psychiatric assessment, confidentiality Guide
- Documents abroad Situation
- Documents abroad: passport, powers of attorney, the 284-FZ register Situation
- Donations and subscriptions: the risks for Belarusians Guide
- Donations, Telegram Stars and money Situation
- Draft raids and same-day conscription Situation
- 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 Situation
- Extremist formation (Belarus) Glossary
- Extremist materials Glossary
- Extremist materials (Belarus) Glossary
- Extremist organisation Glossary
F
- Fleeing the North Caucasus: women, LGBTQ+, pressure from family or security forces Situation
- 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
- Help others Help others
- Helping family and prisoners from abroad Situation
- 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 Situation
I
- I am on the Rosfinmonitoring list Situation
- I live under Russian occupation: passport, home, conscription, checks Situation
- I want to leave the occupied territories Situation
- I've been designated a foreign agent Situation
- 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 Situation
- Interim measures Glossary
- Interpol Red Notice Glossary
- Interpol, surveillance and abductions Guide
J
- Journalist or blogger in Central Asia Situation
- Justifying terrorism Glossary
L
- Lawyers Lawyers
- LGBTQ+ people in danger Situation
- Likes, reposts, comments, Stars: what is risky Safety
M
- MAX and Russian apps Safety
- Messaging, VPNs and blocking Situation
- Migrant: on the register of controlled persons, facing expulsion or pressure to sign a military contract Situation
- Military registration when you are abroad Guide
- Money, banks and taxes after leaving Situation
- Motion, written request (khodataystvo) Glossary
- My account was hacked or I suspect surveillance Situation
- My family is being pressured while I'm abroad Situation
- My flat or accounts were arrested: what it means and what to do Guide
N
- Need psychological support Situation
- Need to leave, asylum Situation
- News News
- Non-refoulement Glossary
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 Situation
- Persecuted in Georgia: protests, fines, 'foreign agents' Situation
- Persecuted in Kazakhstan Situation
- Persecuted in Kyrgyzstan Situation
- Phone being checked Situation
- Planning a trip back to Russia Situation
- Plea deal (sdelka so sledstviem) Glossary
- Plea deals and the special procedure: what they give and the risks Guide
- Police came to the family / a relative disappeared after a search Situation
- Political prisoners Political prisoners
- Pre-trial detention centre, custody (SIZO) Glossary
- Pressure on children and parents: school, university, child services Situation
- Pressure on journalists Situation
- Pressured or forced to sign a military contract Situation
- Prison transfer: a relative has been moved and gone silent Guide
- Prisoner transfer (etap) Glossary
- Prosecuted for what you said online Situation
- Psychologists and communities abroad Situation
- 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 Situation
- Released / deported Situation
- Released from prison Situation
- 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 Situation
- 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 Situation
- Russian or Belarusian in Georgia Situation
S
- Safety Safety
- Search (obysk) Glossary
- Searching for a detained civilian or a deported child Situation
- 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
- Someone close is at war: refusing to fight, AWOL, missing or captured Situation
- Someone close is detained / a political prisoner Situation
- Someone close is in prison Situation
- Someone close is missing or imprisoned in Central Asia Situation
- Someone reported me, I was fired or expelled Situation
- Special proceedings (Belarus) Glossary
- State-appointed lawyer: accept or not? Guide
- Summoned by the KGB or police Situation
- Summons (povestka) Glossary
- Summons register Glossary
- 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 register of people abroad: Law 284-FZ Guide
- Torture and violence by security forces Situation
- Travelling to Belarus / the border Situation
- Trial in absentia (zaochny sud) Glossary
U
- Ukrainians: leaving Russia and occupied territories Situation
- 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 Situation
W
- Wanted list (rozysk) Glossary
- What you can be punished for online: a map of offences Speech offences
- Where to find us Site addresses
- Witness (svidetel) Glossary