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Empty Colonies, Full Cemeteries: Prisons, War, and Russia’s Demography

02.10.2026 Dmytro Yagunov

Three statistical series – the population of the Russian Federation, the number of prisoners, and the losses of Russian forces in the war against Ukraine – are usually analysed separately;…

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Who Launches the Kalibrs and Shahed? A Reply to Vladimir Kara-Murza

25.09.2026 Dmytro Yagunov

The well-known Russian politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, who presents himself as a member of the Russian opposition, has just published a Facebook post linking to his opinion piece in The Washington…

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Not Isolated Incidents but a System: The UN Report on Sexual Violence in Places of Deprivation of Liberty under the Control of the Russian Federation

20.09.2026 Dmytro Yagunov

On 18 September 2026, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published a thematic report prepared on the basis of the work of the United…

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Empty Bunks, New Prisons: Why Does Russia Need Seven Super-Prisons If Its Prison Population Has Fallen Fourfold?

16.09.2026 Dmytro Yagunov

The Russian authorities have officially announced plans to build an entire complex of new prisons. By 2035, the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation intends to create seven “innovative…

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Russian Terror in Numbers: What the Mass Graves of Kharkiv Oblast Reveal Four Years On

15.09.2026 Dmytro Yagunov

Four years after the Kharkiv counteroffensive: Ukrainian Ombudsman releases consolidated data on mass graves and victims of the Russian occupation At an event marking the fourth anniversary of the Kharkiv…

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Gyunduz Mamedov: Change the System, Not Just the Name: The Task for the Next Prosecutor General

14.09.2026 Dmytro Yagunov

Following a high-profile scandal, the prosecution service has once again found itself at the centre of public attention. The system is facing a crisis of trust, accompanied by a crisis…

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Dmytro Yagunov: Carceral orders: informal prison hierarchies in contemporary Europe and the political weaponisation of prison subculture

04.09.2026 Dmytro Yagunov

This paper examines informal prison hierarchies in contemporary Europe as sites of political power, social ordering, and geopolitical contestation, with particular focus on the Russian Federation’s deliberate weaponisation of carceral…

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The Kremlin’s “Patsan” Diplomacy: A Foreign Policy Governed by Prison “Rules”

03.09.2026 Dmytro Yagunov

On 28 August 2026, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov declared once again, in yet another interview, that all questions concerning Ukraine must be settled between Washington and Moscow “patsan-style” –…

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Rita Haverkamp, Dmytro Yagunov: The Carceral Continuum – How Transitions Have Reshaped Social Control in Eastern Europe

01.09.2026 Dmytro Yagunov

The countries of Eastern Europe constitute a unique setting for studying profound transformations of social control. In no other region of the world has the transition from one model of…

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Dmytro Yagunov: Between Doctrine and Reality: The Institutional Fragility of the Absolute Prohibition of Torture

25.08.2026 Dmytro Yagunov

I am pleased to announce the publication of my new article, “Between Doctrine and Reality: The Institutional Fragility of the Absolute Prohibition of Torture,” in European Political and Law Discourse.…