A Turbulent Country

Political demostration in the Ramensky District of the Moscow Region against the actions of MP Nadezhda Shkutko. Residents express distrust, protest against a paid cemetery in the village of Malakhovo, and demand compensation for unissued land shares.

On Sunday, September 29, a Murmansk court ordered the arrest of eight crew members of the Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise. A total of 30 people from among the ship’s passengers and crew, including photographer Denis Sinyakov, will remain in pre-trial detention centers in Murmansk and Apatity for two months. All of them are suspected of the criminal offense of “piracy”: the Investigative Committee considers Greenpeace’s environmental protest at the Prirazlomnaya oil platform in the Pechora Sea an attempted seizure of the facility. The footage shows the detainees inside the detention center—most of them speak English and do not understand what is happening or why they have been arrested.

Gosha Kutsenko volunteers in the flooded city of Amur; humanitarian aid is delivered by plane; Kutsenko takes photos with the elderly women in hospital affected by the flood. In 2013, Komsomolsk-on-Amur experienced the largest flood in its history, and a state of emergency was declared. The flood caused enormous damage: 12,000 destroyed homes, crop losses, and other casualties.

In 2013, Komsomolsk-on-Amur experienced the largest flood in its history, and a state of emergency was declared. The flood caused enormous damage: 12,000 destroyed homes, crop losses, and other casualties. This story features reports from the scene. A Lenta.doc cameraman volunteers in the flooded city; the city administration not offering evacuation.

The participants — scientists, faculty, and graduate students — protested against the government's initiative to eliminate the Academy's autonomy and transfer its institutes to the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations. The protest generated a widespread public response, becoming a symbol of the academic community's resistance to increased bureaucratic control over science.

The court’s rejection of a motion to replace pre-trial detention with house arrest for Daniil Konstantinov, a member of the “For Fair Elections” organizing committee.

The demonstration on Red Square on August 25, 1968 (also known as “the demonstration of the seven”) was carried out by a group of eight Soviet dissidents protesting the introduction of Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops into Czechoslovakia. Troops were deployed on the night of August 20–21 to suppress the sociopolitical reforms in Czechoslovakia known as the “Prague Spring.” The demonstration became one of the most significant acts of protest by Soviet dissidents.

The "Freedom Day" protest, timed to coincide with the 22nd anniversary of victory of the democratic forces over the State Emergency Committee (the organization that attempted to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union).

At the end of July, Bakhtiyar Aliyev, a native of Azerbaijan, was sentenced to one year in prison for a fight in Sergiyev Posad in which biker Leonid Frolov was killed. Outraged by what they saw as an excessively lenient punishment, Frolov’s associates traveled to the town on August 3 to demand a meeting with local authorities.

During a major special operation in Moscow, the police detained approximately one thousand illegal immigrants from Vietnam, Egypt, Morocco, Syria, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan. A tent camp was set up in Golyanovo for the detained migrants, where they awaited a decision on their fate. A “press conference” was held in the camp: a propaganda channel conducted interviews, expressing outrage that none of the refugees spoke Russian and asked questions like “When are you going home?”. Lenta journalists were asked to leave the area after they requested a translator for the refugees.

Former US intelligence officer Edward Snowden is asking human rights activists to assist him in obtaining political asylum in Russia for safe passage to a Latin American country.

Residents of Pugachev demand that the authorities name the city's "overseer": an episode of mass protests by residents of Pugachev (Saratov Region) that began on July 7, 2013. The protests were sparked by the brutal murder of a local resident by a Chechen teenager. The protests were accompanied by clashes with the Chechen diaspora, an attempted pogrom, and the blocking of a road.