Who is imprisoned now

2,155 people imprisoned

People currently held in prison colonies and pre-trial detention centres in political, anti-war and religious cases. The database is broader — it also covers those already released, under house arrest or outside Russia: the full list.

This list follows people’s actual situation, not formal recognition. Those recognised as political prisoners by human rights organisations are a separate, only partly overlapping set.

• Sergey Vasilkovich
  ImprisonedKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Maxim Vasyuk
  ImprisonedMoscow OblastArticle 205 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code9 years
• Artem Vatrya
  ImprisonedKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 205 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Linar Vakhitov
  ImprisonedBashkortostanArticle 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code22 years
• Timofey Vashchenko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Vdovichenko
  ImprisonedSakhalin OblastArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Semiel Vedel
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Alexander Vedernikov
  ImprisonedKursk OblastArticle 205 part 1, Russian Criminal Code17 years
• Vedernikov Vladimir
  ImprisonedNovosibirsk OblastArticle 111 part 3, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Veklinets Maksim
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Viktor Velikov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Aislu Venevtseva
  ImprisonedOrenburg OblastArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Gleb Verdiyan
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 275 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Sergei Verkhoturov
  ImprisonedNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Mikhail Veselov
  ImprisonedVoronezh OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Sergei Veselov
  ImprisonedMoscow OblastArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Sergei Veselov
  ImprisonedIvanovo OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Yuri Vetrov
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Donetska oblastArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Aleksandr Vechirko
  ImprisonedKhabarovsk KraiArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Evgenii Vilachev
  ImprisonedArkhangelsk OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Anton Virich
  ImprisonedPrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Andrey Vitovtov
  ImprisonedAltai KraiArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Vitushkin Evgeniy
  ImprisonedChelyabinsk OblastArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code
• Gennady Vladimirov
  ImprisonedKrasnodar KraiArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Yaroslav Vladyko
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 275 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code9 years 10 months
• Andrei Vlasov
  ImprisonedKemerovo OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Dmitry Vlasov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Ivan Vovk
  ImprisonedArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code7 years 6 months
• Daniil Vodolagin
  ImprisonedVolgograd OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Alexander Voevodkin
  ImprisonedSaint PetersburgArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Snezhana Vozhakova
  ImprisonedOmsk OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Maxim Voynikov
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Andrei Voinov
  ImprisonedPskov OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code1 year
• Varvara Volkova
  ImprisonedMoscow OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Davyd Volodin
  ImprisonedTula OblastArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code12 years 6 months
• Alexei Volsky
  ImprisonedNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
• Vladimir Volskii
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Aleksei Vorobel
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Luhanska oblastArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Nikolai Vorobel
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Luhanska oblastArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Aleksander Vorobev
  ImprisonedMoscow OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexei Vorobyev
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 189 part 3 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code20 years
• Anna Vorobyeva
  ImprisonedStavropol KraiArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Vorona Dmitriy
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code20 years
• Andrei Voronin
  ImprisonedNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 205 part 1, Russian Criminal Code11 years 10 months
• Marina Voronova
  ImprisonedSaint PetersburgArticle 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code1 year 2 months
• Maxim Voronovsky
  ImprisonedChelyabinsk OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergey Vorsenyuk
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code17 years
• Alexander Votyakov
  ImprisonedUdmurtiaArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Egor Voshchinin
  ImprisonedSaint PetersburgArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Ruslan Gabidullin
  ImprisonedTatarstanArticle 205.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code19 years