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The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Osechkin

‘I saw a red dot’: The opponents of Russia facing death threats across Europe

Putin has long faced accusations of silencing its enemies abroad

The Independent UK · May 7

French police arrest four in alleged plot targeting exiled Russian activist Vladimir Osechkin

Vladimir Osechkin founded Gulagu.net, a rights group for prisoners in the notoriously tough Russian prison system.

Euronews · Oct 17, 2025

French police arrest 4 in alleged plot targeting exiled Russian activist Vladimir Osechkin

French police have detained four people suspected of plotting an attack on exiled Russian rights activist Vladimir Osechkin

The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2025

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France Charges Four Over Plot Against Russia Dissident

France has charged four people over a suspected plot against a Russian dissident, prosecutors said Friday, after a refugee who helped reveal abuses in Russian prisons said he was targeted.

International Business Times · Oct 17, 2025

France charges four over plot against Russia dissident

France has charged four people over a suspected plot against a Russian dissident, prosecutors said Friday, after a refugee who helped reveal abuses in Russian prisons said he was targeted.

Radio France Internationale · Oct 17, 2025

‘I told my family, I’ll probably die’: US immigration sends Russian asylum seekers back to Moscow

Russian national who applied for asylum on political grounds describes inhumane treatment while in US custody

The Guardian - UK · Sep 3, 2025

Alexei Navalny killed by 'KGB hallmark' punch to the heart, human rights campaigner claims

UK announces heads of Arctic penal colony where Alexei Navalny was ‘detained and killed’ will be banned from the UK

Evening Standard · Feb 21, 2024

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Thousands of Ukraine civilians are being held in Russian prisons. Russia plans to build many more

Thousands of Ukrainian civilians are being detained across Russia and the Ukrainian territories it occupies, in centers ranging from brand-new wings in Russian prisons to clammy basements

The Independent UK · Jul 13, 2023

Jets linked to Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin arrive in Belarus ‘for exile’

Flight tracking information shows two planes arrived in Belarus from Russia, amid Yevgeny Prigozhin’s exile rumours following his failed coup attempt

Daily Mirror · Jun 27, 2023

Poland deports Russian man who claimed to have been FSB officer

Secret service decided backstory of purported Russian security service officer was not credible

The Guardian - UK · Jun 8, 2023

Putin thought Ukraine invasion would shatter Nato after swift victory, show FSB leaks

The intel comes from inside the FSB security service, from a source known as Wind of Change, and was reportedly leaked to Russian human rights activist Vladimir Osechkin

Daily Mirror · Mar 4, 2023

High-ranking Russian officials escape Vladimir Putin's grasp to defect to the West

Vladimir Osechkin knows the risks of defying Vladimir Putin and the Russian state after would-be assassins invaded his home and tried to kill his family before he escaped to France in 2015

Daily Mirror · Jan 25, 2023

Man who exposed brutal jail sexual torture accuses Putin of seeking to assassinate him

Vladimir Osechkin has in recent years exposed a series of abuses in Putin's law enforcement machine. These include the barbaric use of torture and sexual violence in jails

Daily Mirror · Oct 25, 2022

France probes threats against Russian prison rights activist

French authorities are investigating death threats against a Russian prisoners' rights activist who says he was the target of an assassination attempt last week at his home in France

The Independent UK · Sep 20, 2022

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Radio France Internationale · Sep 20, 2022

French police open investigation into alleged plot to kill Russian dissident

French authorities are investigating threats against an exiled Russian dissident after he reported seeing a laser sight light in a possible assassination bid, a source close to the probe said on Tuesday.

The Independent UK · Aug 11, 2022

Russia struggles to replenish its troops in Ukraine

The Kremlin has refused to announce a full-blown mobilization as Russia suffers military losses in its invasion of Ukraine which is nearing its sixth month

Daily Mirror · Jul 16, 2022

British aid worker was ‘tortured to death’, claims human rights group

Paul Urey, 45, died in captivity last Sunday claim pro-Russian separatists in the Donetsk region of Ukraine and human rights campaigner Vladimir Osechkin said he was "tortured to death"

Daily Mirror · May 2, 2022

Vladimir Putin leading Russia to civil war and total collapse, FSB agent claims

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov is aware of the inevitability of civil war in Russia and is playing along the lines of a possible split, according to an insider

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Daily Mirror · Mar 26, 2022

Seven signs Russia is losing will to wage Ukraine war after 'change of target'

Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukraine president, believes Russian troops are suffering in the face of a fierce counter-attack from the defending forces, with morale among the Kremlin's troops said to be lo

The Independent UK · Mar 24, 2022

‘He has a lot on his plate’: Kremlin denies defence minister is leading a coup, just busy

Disappearances and a high profile resignation in Moscow buoy whispers of growing discontent

Daily Mirror · Mar 24, 2022

Putin overthrow is 'more likely every week' amid Kremlin chaos, insider claims

Vladimir Putin's position as president of Russia is becoming less stable as each week goes by with a rising chance of an overthrow from the FSB, says a whistleblower

Reuters · Mar 14, 2022

Activists arrested in France for occupying villa linked to Russian oligarch

French police on Monday arrested two activists who occupied a luxury villa in Biarritz, southern France, that they said was linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin's former son-in-law.

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