Gulagu.net, a project that helps prisoners, announced on Monday that it was shutting down.
“We are hounded, treated with contempt, and mocked over this whole ‘good Russians’ business. Our bank accounts are frozen, and we are openly discriminated against. We are pressured from every side and subjected to infighting, hate, and bullying — the most effective opponents of the Kremlin can even be killed (and sometimes are). […] Given these new realities and risks, we are forced to suspend the activities of the Gulagu.net human rights project,” the project wrote in its Telegram channel.
Vladimir Osechkin, a former entrepreneur, founded Gulagu.net. He left Russia in 2015 and now lives in France. Osechkin said in 2022 that an attempt was made on his life in Biarritz. In 2025, a Russian court sentenced him in absentia to eight years in prison on charges of spreading “fakes” about the Russian military. Several people in Russia have also received prison sentences for cooperating with Gulagu.net.
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