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Pastor of the Evangelical New Life church in Chelyabinsk. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Yugov is also the founder of two commercial organizations, one charity, as well as the Central Religious Organization of Evangelical Christians Pentecostals (the New Generation Association) and its branch in Kopeysk, Chelyabinsk oblast. The persecution was provoked […]

Christian preacher and bishop of the southern region of New Generation churches in Krasnodar Krai, 53 years old. He ministered in the stanitsa of Poltava, Krasnodar Krai, together with his wife. They have six children. Every year he preached at the young Christians’ conference on the Black Sea coast. The persecution was provoked by a […]

Vitaly Koltsov, 47 years old, a father of many children, a poet, a developer of intellectual games, an Orthodox believer, a graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Russian State University for Humanities. On 2 May 2022, Koltsov came to the Metropol Hotel at Revolyutsii Square in Moscow wearing a suit and tie, and […]

Vasily Razumov, a linguist, lecturer of literature, in the recent past — a teacher of literature at the Ignaty Brianchaninov Orthodox Gymnasium; he starred in Maria Sandler’s film The Unholy Holy about the Orthodox Church in the modern world. Razumov wrote anti-war posts on social media. One of those posts from 17 March 2023 was […]

Employee of the Transfiguration Cathedral in Khabarovsk, 61 years old. On 6 March 2022, Tsapkalenko was with the protesters who opposed the war and supported Sergei Furgal in the square of his city. Tsepkalenko told the participants that he worked in the cathedral, but he called the behaviour of the leadership of the church and […]

A non-denominational Christian, rector of the Christian Abode of Mercy (Almshouse) in the village of Savinovo, Krasnoufimsky district, Sverdlovsk oblast. Charov wrote anti-war posts on his social media, urged not to go to the military recruitment offices and invited conscripts who “escaped from the moGilization” [play of words: mogila means a grave in Russian] to […]

A musician, veterinarian, former sacristan at the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary parish in the village of Prybytki, Homieĺ region. Hlushkou was detained and placed in custody in August 2022. Contacts of Ukrainians and an old photo of the airfield in Ziabraŭka used by Russian troops for airstrikes in Ukraine were found in his […]

Victor (Pivovarov), Archbishop of Slavyansk and South Russia, previously belonged to the Orthodox Church of Russia in this capacity, since 2009 outside any jurisdictions; born in 1937. On 1 March 2023, he delivered a sermon that the authorities considered discrediting the army; a protocol was drawn up against him. According to the Kommersant publishing house, […]

Mikhail Yurievich Simonov, a pensioner from Moscow, born in 1960. Until recently he lived in Belarus and managed a restaurant car on long-distance trains. On 19 and 20 March 2022, he made the following comments on the VK social network: “While killing children and women, we are singing songs on Channel One. We, Russia, have […]