On November 6, Aleksey Dymovsk, a police officer at the Department of Internal Affairs in Novorossiysk used his personal Web site to address Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and talk about numerous problems police officers face in Russia.<\/p>\n
In his video address available on www.dymovskiy.ru<\/a> and YouTube (part I<\/a> and part II<\/a> [RUS]), Aleksey Dymovskiy is calm and meticulous. He talks about diminishing police honor, bribes, corruption and low pay that poison lives of many police officers in Russia.<\/p>\n Aleksey has been arrested on Jan. 23 on fraud charges. Dymovsky became a Russian Internet sensation when he released an online video address publicly accusing several high-ranked Russian police officers in corruption<\/a>.<\/p>\n According to newsru.com<\/a> Aleksey had been released<\/a> from prison on March 7th, 2010.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/aleksey-dymovskiy","city":"Novorossiysk","country":"Russia","lat":"18.073410","lon":"-15.976181"}},{"item":{"name":"Alexander Sorokin","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/alexander_Sorokin.jpg","status":"Threatened","date_from":"2010-08-04","date_to":"2010-08-04","blog_url":"http:\/\/commentator40.livejournal.com\/","background":" A criminal case has been started against Kemerovo-based Alexander Sorokin<\/em> (aka LJ-user commentator40<\/a><\/em>), Echo <\/em>Moskvy<\/em> reported<\/a> [RUS]. Sorokin is accused of libel against Kemerovo governor Aman Tuleev<\/a> [EN] for the post<\/a> [RUS] in which he compares Russian regional governors to Latin American dictators. It is the second loud case<\/a> [EN] of blogger prosecution in this region in 2010.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/alexander-sorokin","city":"Kemerovo","country":"Russia","lat":"55.354135","lon":"86.044922"}},{"item":{"name":"Alexey Navalny","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/800px-navalny.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2011-12-05","date_to":"2011-12-20","blog_url":"http:\/\/navalny.livejournal.com\/","background":" On December 5, following post-election protests, prominent Russian blogger Alexey Navalny was arrested<\/a>, along with others, amidst a protest. He was released on December 20.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/alexey-navalny","city":"Moscow","country":"Russia","lat":"55.750000","lon":"37.616667"}},{"item":{"name":"Dmitri Soloviev","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/dmitrisoloviev.jpg","status":"Threatened","date_from":"2009-08-14","date_to":"2009-12-13","blog_url":"http:\/\/dimon77.livejournal.com\/","background":" From The Other Russia<\/a>: A Russian blogger accused of inciting hatred against the police has been cleared of all charges, reports Grani.ru.<\/p>\n Dmitri Soloviev, a blogger and activist of the Oborona opposition movement, was notified on Monday of the December 31 decision. According to the document sent to the blogger, two groups of investigators found no evidence that any crime had actually been committed.<\/p>\n Soloviev had been charged in August 2008 with inciting hatred against police and federal security agents with a series of posts on LiveJournal.<\/p>\n Investigators had initially claimed that the five posts \u201cinstigated social strife\u201d due to their content regarding the police.<\/p>\n The posts, under Soloviev\u2019s username dimon77, included phrases accusing federal security agents of killing Russian children and assertions that the police would not succeed in breaking up the Oborona movement.<\/p>\n Advocates for the blogger maintained that the majority of the posts included material previously published elsewhere on the internet, and, furthermore, represented legitimate criticisms of specific actions of law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n As part of the investigation, Soloviev\u2019s computer and notebook had both been confiscated, preventing him from completing his graduate dissertation.<\/p>\n Oborona leader Oleg Kozlovsky said that the decision to drop the case was \u201cunprecedented in recent Russian history.\u201d He added, however, that the case was very much an exception, as Soloviev\u2019s case was only one of many similar, high-profile lawsuits against Russian bloggers.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/dmitri-soloviev","city":"Kemerovo","country":"Russia","lat":"55.371239","lon":"86.052437"}},{"item":{"name":"Dmitry Shirinkin","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Dmitry_Shirinkin.jpg","status":"Threatened","date_from":"2007-10-10","date_to":"2007-10-10","blog_url":"http:\/\/tetraox.livejournal.com\/","background":" \n<\/p> The Perm Kirovsky District Court has found blogger Dmitry Shirinkin guilty of publishing a false report of an act of terrorism in the Internet. The blogger was ordered to pay a fine in an amount of 20,000 ruble. The 23-year old Russian blogger, Dmitry Shirinkin, who wrote a fiction story on his blog<\/a> inspired by the Virginia Tech shooting<\/a>. Dmitry was running a LiveJournal blog under the title tetraox and wrote about buying a gun and killing number of people in one of the city's colleges. He is being accused of \u201cfalsely warning of a terror threat<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Prosecutor's Office analysed Dmitry's blog and concluded he had a desire to shoot dead a dozen people<\/em>,\u201d Russia Today reported<\/a>. However, Shirinkin's defense is requesting a language analyst to give his expert opinion on the controversial text. The trial has been adjourned to September 20th.<\/p>\n In an interview with Russia Today (watch the video above), Shirinkin said \u201cI didn\u2019t expect that a short writing piece could provoke such reaction from the security services. They interrogated me asking where my gun was, but I'd never had one<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Russia Today, the blog made Dmitry popular even before the trial as he was awarded the title of the best blogger in the region. On the other hand, Russian bloggers are concerned since Shirinkin's case might set a bad precedent for the country's Internet users.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/dmitry-shirinkin","city":"Perm","country":"Russia","lat":"57.891497","lon":"56.162109"}},{"item":{"name":"Irek Murtazin","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Irek_Murtazin.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2009-11-26","date_to":"2009-11-26","blog_url":"http:\/\/irek-murtazin.livejournal.com\/","campaign_url":"http:\/\/inkazan.ru\/ireku-murtazinu-dali-1-god-i-9-mesyacev\/","background":" From Global Voices<\/a>: On Nov. 26, the Kirov district court of Kazan, which is the capital of the Republic of Tartastan<\/a>, convicted Irek Murtazin, a 45-year-old journalist and blogger, of defamation and incitement to hatred, reports<\/a> Gazeta.ru [RUS]. The court sentenced Murtazin to one year and nine months of imprisonment in a penal colony (a form of imprisonment where convicts live not in a jail but in a special colony for prisoners).<\/p>\n About a year ago, in Dec. 2008, Murtazin - former head of Shaimiev's press service and currently an opposition blogger, aka lj-user irek-murtazin<\/a> [RUS] - was accused of defamation against Mintimir Shaimiev, President of Tatarstan. On Sept. 12, 2008, Murtazin published a post in which he mentioned a piece of gossip about Shaimiev's death. <\/p>\n The rumor of Shaimiev's death was disproven on the same day, but the shares of the oil company allegedly owned by the representatives of the so-called \u201cShaimiev clan\u201d dropped significantly, says Lenta.ru<\/a> [RUS]. In Dec. 2008, Murtazin was officially accused of defamation and infringement upon personal inviolability of Shaimiev (It is important to note that the court acquitted Murtazin only on this latter charge).<\/p>\n The trial lasted almost a year, and prosecution kept adding new accusations, blaming Murtazin for defamation and libel not only on his blog, but also in Murtazin's book \u201cMintimir Shaimiev: The Last President of Tatarstan. Part 1\u2033 as well as in his news bulletin \u201cOur Kazan News\u201d (\u201d\u041d\u0430\u0448\u0438 \u043a\u0430\u0437\u0430\u043d\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0435 \u0432\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0438,\u201d which Murtazin described<\/a> [RUS] in Oct. 2008 as a \u201cprint digest\u201d of his LiveJournal blog).<\/p>\n Murtazin said he didn't agree with the verdict and would file an appeal.<\/p>\n Photographs from the trial are available here<\/a>.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/irek-murtazin","city":"Kazan","country":"Russia","lat":"55.796538","lon":"49.108200"}},{"item":{"name":"Ivan Peregorodiev","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Ivan_Peregorodiev_0.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2009-12-03","date_to":"2009-12-03","blog_url":"http:\/\/iperegorodiev.livejournal.com\/","campaign_url":"http:\/\/www.ikd.ru\/node\/11855","background":" Ivan Peregorodiev, a 22-year-old medical student and blogger, has been arrested on December 3 for spreading rumors about pneumonic plague in the city of Saratov. Authorities accused him of disseminating false information related to an act of terrorism (read more on Global Voices Advocacy<\/a>)<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/ivan-peregorodiev","city":"Saratov","country":"Russia","lat":"51.533269","lon":"46.034549"}},{"item":{"name":"Oleg Kashin","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/bez_tytulu.jpg","status":"Threatened","date_from":"2010-11-05","date_to":"2010-11-05","blog_url":"kashin.livejournal.com","campaign_url":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23KSHN","background":" Journalist Oleg Kashin was severely beaten in Moscow on Friday night and is now in intensive care. One of Kashin's recent texts for the Russian daily Kommersant dealt with the Khimki Forest situation; coincidentally, one of the Khimki Forest activists, Konstantin Fetisov, was severely beaten just a few days earlier. (By Veronika Khokhlova).<\/p>\n His legs and fingers were broken, head crushed. After the operation 1 finger was amputated.<\/p>\n Kashin reported on a number of force majeure events, including the death of Maskhadov, the destruction of hens infected with avian influenza in Novosibirsk Oblast and the burial of rescuers who died during the Beslan school hostage crisis. He was detained by militia and beaten several times while fulfilling his journalist duties. (Wikipedia)<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/oleg-kashin","city":"Moscow","country":"Russia","lat":"55.702355","lon":"37.529297"}},{"item":{"name":"Oleg Kozyrev","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/oleg_kozyrev_.jpeg","status":"Threatened","date_from":"2011-12-28","date_to":"2011-12-28","blog_url":"http:\/\/oleg-kozyrev.livejournal.com\/","background":" Acording to Index on Censorship, \"Popular Russian blogger Oleg Kozyrev has been threatened with a defamation lawsuit by Moscow Region Election Committee for filing a complaint on alleged election law violations. [...] Two months ago Kozyrev filed a complaint to the Central Election Committee in the time leading up to Russia\u2019s parliamentary elections on 4 December. He complained that the posters used Vladimir Putin\u2019s United Russia party were far too similar to those used by the committee to remind citizens to vote. [...] <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/oleg-kozyrev","city":"Moscow","country":"Russia","lat":"55.750000","lon":"37.616667"}},{"item":{"name":"Savva Terentyev","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Savva_Terentyev.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2007-08-13","date_to":"2007-08-13","blog_url":"http:\/\/terentyev.livejournal.com\/","background":" On February 15, 2007, 21-year-old Russian musician and blogger Savva Terentyev located in the northern Russian city of Syktyvkar (Republic of Komi) posted a comment on the blog of a local journalist named Boris Suranov (LiveJournal \u00bb Suranov<\/a>). Suranov\u2019s post dealt with a raid by local police officers on a local opposition newspaper called Iskra (\u201cthe spark\u201d), a raid which Suranov believed was politically motivated and illegal.<\/p>\n In his comment, Terentyev defames policemen as stupid and ignorant, then calls for a frequent public burning of policemen in his hometown (Pajamas Media \u00bb Russia\u2019s Crackdown on Bloggers<\/a>). The comment was not deleted by the blog owner, but got sarcastically commented by Suranov.<\/p>\n Half a year later, on August 13, 2007, the procuracy of Syktyvkar filed charges against Terentyev under the article \u201cArousing hatred or enmity\u201d (Robert Amsterdam \u00bb Russian Blogger Faces Jail (Kommersant Translation)<\/a>). Terentyev was taken into custody on that day and was later ordered not to leave the city (redOrbit \u00bb Russian TV looks at case of blogger charged with inciting hatred<\/a>). Subsequently, the comment causing the uproar got deleted the same day.<\/p>\n On March 12, 2008 it was reported that the authorities had concluded their investigations and formally filed serious criminal charges against Terentyev, handing the criminal case over to the court (Kommersant Moscow \u00bb Blog case goes to court<\/a>). Terentyev is officially charged with \u201cinciting enmity or hostility\u201d through the comment he left on Boris Suranov\u2019s blog (Pajamas Media \u00bb Russia\u2019s Crackdown on Bloggers<\/a>).<\/p>\n Terentyev\u2019s is the first case that criminal charges are held against a Russian blogger. He could be facing a two-year prison sentence or a fine of 100.000 (Global Voices Advocacy \u00bb Russian LiveJournal blogger could face three year sentence<\/a>) to 300.000 ruble (Pajamas Media \u00bb Russia\u2019s Crackdown on Bloggers<\/a>).<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/savva-terentyev","city":"Syktyvkar","country":"Russia","lat":"61.669024","lon":"50.756836"}}]}