Andrei Pivovarov, former director of Open Russia, was transferred from a Krasnodar jail. His whereabouts have been unknown for a month.

Andrei Pivovarov’s whereabouts have been unknown for a month, Tatyana Usmanova, his former campaign manager, told human rights organization OVD-Info. Pivovarov, the former director of the Khodorkovsky-backed Open Russian organization was sentenced to four years in prison for carrying out the activities of an “undesirable organization.”

In December, the Telegram channel Team Pivovarov reported that the opposition leader had been transferred from a Krasnodar jail, where he had spent more than a year, to a prison colony, also located in Krasnodar. He was taken to prison at the end of December. On January 10, Usmanova received a letter from Pivovarov, from the city of Michurinsk, in the Tambov region, and on January 12, a letter from Yaroslavl. On January 17 and 18, he was back in jail, this time in St. Petersburg.

That jail was the opposition leader’s last known location. Usmanova has not heard from him since. In his last letter, Pivovarov mentioned that he’d been “ordered” to transfer to Karelia.

Pivovarov’s defense and his father have both sent official inquiries about his whereabouts.

Pivovarov was arrested in May 2021.