Romanyuk’s daughter Svetlana Zhukova describes in detail on her Telegram channel how armed men arrived shortly after 6am, their knocks “shaking our entire wooden house”. The armed men did not explain who they were or what they wanted, and searched the house, including the children’s rooms. “Going down the stairs in fear, I saw my husband

At his 17 December 2024 appeal against his detention, Vasilyev noted that he had been forced to celebrate a major Buddhist holiday (Bodhi Day, the day of the Buddha’s enlightenment) on 8 December in the detention centre, rather than at home, where he has an altar. “The [lower court] resolution says ‘There are not enough guarantees of proper b

According to the Christians Against War Telegram channel, in one of these posts Charov said “You churchmen/church people! Come to your senses! Understand! Think about it, would Jesus Christ have gone to kill in Ukraine????!” [punctuation original]. In other posts, he apparently also called President Vladimir Putin the Antichrist, according to i

Two other criminal cases are ongoing against individuals who have opposed Russia’s war against Ukraine from a religious perspective. The 51-year-old Buddhist leader Ilya Vasilyev is currently on trial in Moscow on charges of spreading “knowingly false information” about the Russian Armed Forces “on grounds of hatred or enmity” (see below)

The bipartisan Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), passed in 2021 during the first Trump administration, mandated the creation of the Beneficial Ownership Information Register (BOIR). The act requires companies to disclose their true owners to the United States Treasury Department to counter widespread misuse of anonymously owned, US-registered shell