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Ilya Yashin, former Moscow councilman, was designated a foreign agent and sentenced to 8.5 years in 2022, for spreading false information about the Russian military.
Kevin Leak, is the youngest person ever to be convicted of treason in Russia. The 19-year-old German-Russian dual citizen was sentenced to four years in prison last December. On Tuesday, his mother told the media that her food package could not be delivered because there was “no such inmate” at the colony in Arkhangelsk.
Ksenia Fadeyeva and Lilia Chanyshevaare former employees of the late opposition activist Alexey Navalny’s nonprofits. Fadeyeva was sentenced to nine years in prison for extremism by a Tomsk court. Her lawyers argued that Fadeyeva ended her involvement with Navalny’s organization before it was labeled extremist in 2021. Chanysheva was found guilty of creating an extremist community, inciting extremism, and establishing an organization that violated citizens’ rights, by a court in Bashkortostan in June 2023. An appeals court increased her prison term to ten years in April this year, deeming the original sentence too lenient.
Vadim Ostanin, former head of the Barnaul branch of Navalny’s FBK foundation, was arrested in December 2021 and charged with running an extremist organization. He was sentenced to nine years in prison in July last year.
Aleksandra ‘Sasha’ Skochilenko, an artist from St. Petersburg, was convicted in November 2023 for spreading false information about the Russian army. She worked with a feminist collective to replace price tags at a supermarket with messages accusing Russia of being a “fascist state” and of bombing civilians in Ukraine.
Oleg Orlov, 70, headed the human rights NGO Memorial. He wrote an article in 2022 denouncing the conflict in Ukraine and accusing Russia of descending into “fascism.” He was sentenced to 30 months in prison in February 2024. [source]
Andrey Pivovarovran the now-banned Open Russia movement until he was detained in May 2021. He was sentenced to four years in prison in July 2022.
Alsu Kurmashevawas arrested in Kazan in October 2023 and charged with failing to register as a foreign agent. The charges were later expanded to “spreading false information”about the Russian military. The 47-year-old Russian-American worked for the Tatar-Bashkir language service of the US state-funded outlet RFE/RL.
German Moyzhes, a dual Russian-German citizen, has been a prominent cycling activist in St. Petersburg and ran a company that provided services to Russians seeking to emigrate to Germany. He was arrested in May and charged with treason.
Dieter ‘Demuri’ Voroninwas arrested in 2021, on suspicion of paying Roscosmos employee Ivan Safronov for classified information about the Russian military in Syria, on behalf of the German intelligence agency BND. He is a dual citizen of Germany and Russia and used a Georgian name on his Russian passport.
Patrick Schoebel, 38, is a German national who was detained in St. Petersburg in February, after edible marijuana snacks were found in his luggage. He was charged with drug trafficking.
https://www.rt.com/russia/602020-russia-us-prisoner-swap-names/