boriskov · Aug 9, 2025
Activist detained in Moscow for protesting censorship bill
On 22 July 2025, activist Dmitry Kisiev, campaign manager for Boris Nadezhdin, was detained in Moscow for a solo picket outside the State Duma opposing a bill that introduces fines for searching or viewing "extremist" materials online. He held a banner reading "For a Russia without censorship. Orwell wrote a dystopia, not an instruction manual," after which he and RusNews reporters were taken to a police station and accused of violating public assembly rules. The bill sets fines of up to 5,000 r