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Boris Nemtsov
Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician (1959–2015)
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Russian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch
Igor Girkin
Russian citizen from Moscow who played a significant role in the War in Donbass
Eduard Limonov
Russian writer (1943-2020)
Aleksandr Kokorin
Russian footballer
Vladimir Bukovsky
Soviet dissident; prominent in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spent a total of twelve years in psychiatric prison-hospitals, labor camps and prisons within the Soviet Union
Yulia Navalnaya
Russian public figure, Alexei Navalny's widow
Vladimir Kara-Murza
Russian politician and journalist (born 1981)
Nadya Tolokonnikova
Russian political activist and musician
Ilya Yashin
Russian activist and liberal politician
Pavel Mamayev
Russian footballer
Vera Figner
Russian political activist (1852-1942)
Andrei Sinyavsky
Russian writer, dissident, political prisoner, emigrant, Professor of Sorbonne University, magazine founder and publisher (1925–1997)
Sergei Kovalev
Russian politician (1930–2021)
Aleksei Bugayev
Russian association football player (1981–2024)
Volin
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum (18 September 1945), commonly known by his pseudonym Volin, was a Russian anarchist intellectual. He became involved in revolutionary socialist politics during the 1905 Russian Revolution, for which he was forced into exile, where he gravitated towards anarcho-syndicalism.
Alexey Ulyukaev
Russian economist and politician
Yuli Daniel
Soviet writer and poet (1925-1988)
Pavel Bermondt-Avalov
Russian Cossack warlord (1877–1974)
Aleksey Remizov
Russian writer (1877-1957)
Sergey Mavrodi
Russian criminal and former deputy of the State Duma (1955-2018)
Yuri Orlov
Soviet physicist and dissident (1924–2020)
Mikhail Yefremov
Soviet and Russian actor
Petr Pavlenski
Russian artist
Leonid Volkov
Russian politician (born 1980)
Kira Yarmysh
Alexei Navalny's spokesperson and writer
Maria Alyokhina
Russian political activist and musician
Ivan Golunov
Russian investigative journalist
Vasily Shulgin
Russian lawyer (1878–1976)
Yekaterina Samutsevich
Russian musician
Vladimir Linderman
Latvian politician (born 1958)
Alexander Emelianenko
Russian boxer and judoka
Roman Dobrokhotov
Russian journalist
Ivan Zhdanov
Russian politician and lawyer
Alsu Kurmasheva
Russian-American journalist
Alexey Gorinov
Russian politician and political prisoner
Dmitry Demushkin
Russian politician
Ildar Dadin
Russian activist
Daniil Andreyev
Russian writer, poet, mystic (1906–1959)
Fail Alsynov
Bashkir activist (born 1986)
Alexandr Podrabinek
Russian journalist
Boris Stomakhin
Russian writer and dissident
Mikhail Trepashkin
KGB and FSB officer
Anna Barkova
Soviet writer (1901–1976)
Platon Lebedev
Russian businessman
Elena
Ştefan cel Mare daughter
Galina Serebryakova
Soviet writer (1905-1980)
Leonid Razvozzhayev
Russian politician's aide
Alexander Nikitin
Russian environmentalist
Gregori Maximoff
Soviet anarchist dissident (1893-1950)
Igor Sutyagin
Russian physicist
Grigory Pasko
Russian journalist
Jacob Zerubavel
Israeli activist
Ivan Safronov
Russian journalist (b. 1990)
Azat Miftaxof
Russian mathematician
Andrei Nikolaevich Mironov
Soviet political prisoner, human rights activist, reporter, fixer, interpreter (1954-2014)
Sergey Durov
Russian poet and political activist (1815-1869)
Dmitri Domani
Russian basketball player
Vladimir Kvachkov
Russian politician
Vladimir Oidupaa
Tuvan musician, Khoomei and bayan performer (1949-2013)