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Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of Russia’s leading election watchdog Golos, has been sentenced to five years in prison by a Moscow court for allegedly working with an “undesirable” organisation.

He denied the charges, which stem from Golos’s past ties to a European election monitoring group banned in Russia, and called the case politically motivated.

His sentencing marks a major escalation in the Kremlin’s post-Ukraine invasion crackdown on dissent, which has seen activists, journalists and NGOs targeted.

Memorial, Russia’s Nobel Prize-winning human rights group, has recognised Melkonyants as a political prisoner.



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Posted: 2025-05-15 08:16:43

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