The Tambov Regional court has declared the ruling of a lower court denying imprisoned environmentalist Yevgeny Vitishko a less onerous…

Yevgeny Vitishko, the environmentalist imprisoned for his vociferous opposition to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games, has announced an indefinite…

In his first known public remarks on the imprisonment of environmentalist Yevgeny Vitishko, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he would…

A hearing highly anticipated to lead to Sochi Olympic environmental prisoner Yevgeny Vitishko’s early release ended in disappointment today based on his refusal to undergo counseling by his prison colony’s psychiatrist, according to his colleagues. The court also said Vitishko had yet to fulfill the conditions of certain disciplinary reprimands, although guards testified all reprimands […]

A regional court in the Tambov Region of Russia has delayed a hearing on a petition that could free jailed environmentalist Yevgeny Vitishko until the end of the month, but his colleagues and other ecologists are cautiously optimistic he could be freed. In February 2014, during the Sochi Winter Olympic Games, Vitishko was sentenced to […]