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TV and film production designer Alexander Kondratov, 52, who had been arrested on charges of "treason," has passed away at Botkin Hospital in Moscow, human rights group Department One reports. He had been hospitalized on October 23 after being transferred from a pre-trial detention center (1/4)

Initially, Kondratov spent over 70 days in custody under "carousel arrests": a series of consecutive detentions for "petty hooliganism." In August 2026, he was moved to a pre-trial detention center on charges of "treason." The criminal case was based on six posts he had made online (3/4)

TV and film production designer Alexander Kondratov, 52, who had been arrested on charges of "treason," has passed away at Botkin Hospital in Moscow, human rights group Department One reports. He had been hospitalized on October 23 after being transferred from a pre-trial detention center (1/4)

Russia’s Justice Ministry has just published a new registry of “persons subject to temporary restrictive measures”. The first 12 targets include prominent exiled opposition figures like Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Ekaterina Shulman, Michael Nacke, and Evgeny Chichvarkin

The latest losses count update: over the past two weeks, nearly 7,000 new names of KIA Russian soldiers have been added to our database. Tatarstan’s death toll has now surpassed 10k, making it the second region to hit this mark after Bashkortostan (now at ~11.9K) en.zona.media/article/2026...

Besides English and Russian, our casualty updates are available in 7 additional languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Portuguese, and Polish. You can easily switch to any version using the language menu in the header section en.zona.media/article/2026...

We calculated that nearly 1 hour and 20 minutes of footage was cut from the first two seasons of Euphoria. Most of the censorship targets LGBTQ+ content, but sex scenes, even conversations about dick pics, were also cut. Another three and a half minutes were removed due to drug-related content

The FSB has detained a 35-year-old Swedish citizen who fought for Ukraine at the border with Latvia. He had previously fought on the side of Ukraine and was travelling to Russia “under the pretence of joining the Russian Armed Forces <…> to carry out acts of sabotage and terrorism” (1/7)

“For me, this [detention] came as a surprise. He was there, fighting for Ukraine for about half a year, then came home, and recently went back there again. To be honest, I don’t know exactly what he was doing there; I didn’t ask him” (6/7)

The FSB has detained a 35-year-old Swedish citizen who fought for Ukraine at the border with Latvia. He had previously fought on the side of Ukraine and was travelling to Russia “under the pretence of joining the Russian Armed Forces <…> to carry out acts of sabotage and terrorism” (1/7)

They also included a video clip of the Swedish man from the Instagram account of the Ukrainian Foreigner Recruiting Centre. It was posted in February 2026. In it, the man described how he had been building up his endurance by undertaking forced marches whilst carrying weights (4/7)

The FSB has detained a 35-year-old Swedish citizen who fought for Ukraine at the border with Latvia. He had previously fought on the side of Ukraine and was travelling to Russia “under the pretence of joining the Russian Armed Forces <…> to carry out acts of sabotage and terrorism” (1/7)

A case is opened against him for illegally crossing the border. The FSB is also “considering” whether to charge him with “terrorism” and “mercenary activity.” It states that the Swede was the commander of a drone unit in the “Aidar” regiment, recognised in Russia as a “terrorist organisation” (2/7)

68-year-old Nikolai Nabiev who had suffered a heart attack, and who is accused of organising an armed underground group, told the court that he had been beaten by prison guards after asking for his medication to be returned (1/7)

Nikolai Nabiev and two other defendants in the case, 70-year-old Marina Zakharova and 65-year-old Sergei Kuzovenko, were arrested in the spring of 2022. They are accused of establishing the so-called “people’s militia of the territorial clan community ‘Rusy Kubani’” (6/7)

68-year-old Nikolai Nabiev who had suffered a heart attack, and who is accused of organising an armed underground group, told the court that he had been beaten by prison guards after asking for his medication to be returned (1/7)

“[The man who struck me] insulted me and humiliated me with foul language as he pleased.” During the hearing, at the request of the presiding judge, Maxim Nikitin, the prison guards returned his bottle of nitroglycerine to him (4/7)

68-year-old Nikolai Nabiev who had suffered a heart attack, and who is accused of organising an armed underground group, told the court that he had been beaten by prison guards after asking for his medication to be returned (1/7)

Nabiev, a resident of the Uspensky District in Kuban in the south of Russia, accused of organising an illegal armed group and trafficking in weapons, appeared in the courtroom of the Southern District Military Court with a bruise on his face and stated that he had been beaten by prison guards (2/7)

Aktualisierte Bilanz russischer Verluste: - >17.000 zur namentlichen Liste hinzugefügt - Ein ukrainischer Angriff tötete so viele russische Offiziere wie nie zuvor im Krieg. Wir benennen sie en.zona.media/article/2026...

This week, in our update of Russian losses in Ukraine: - 17,000 names added to our list since September 21 en.zona.media/article/2026... - one Ukrainian strike takes out more Russian officers than ever during the entire war; we reveal their names en.zona.media/article/2026...