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Repressive operations

NameDateDescription
Case against Ruslan Siddiqi2023 - ?

In 2023, Ruslan Siddiqi was arrested and accused of bombing a freight train on a track that was also used to transport military equipment in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian war. The bombing damaged both the train and the track.

Network2017 - 2020

In late 2017 and early 2018, about ten people were arrested in Penza and Saint Petersburg and accused of being part of an underground organization called “Network” that was planning terrorist attacks in anticipation of the 2018 Russian presidential elections and the FIFA World Cup. Some were also accused of attempting to sell large quantities of drugs. Most of them were tortured in the early stages of their detention by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).