The Judicial Chamber of the Russian Supreme Court has hidden judicial statistics from its website, independent Russian publications have noted.
By April 20, the ministry was supposed to publish the 2025 data, but it violated its regulations and never published it. I mentioned “North of reality.”
April 21 “Planning” find outAll statistics for previous years were previously available directly connectiondisappear. One day ago this information was available. When you try to open a page with statistics directly from the main site, He appears Message saying “Information is temporarily unavailable”.
In the judiciary department certain “Important Stories” blocked access to criminal records statistics. The administration explained that “regulatory laws regarding publication are changing, so access to statistics is now closed.”
However, they could not explain exactly what changes were made. The Ministry did not rule out the possibility of publishing new statistics at a later time, but it was unable to answer when, in what form, and in what size.
The Judicial Administration publishes data on criminal records in Russia every six months, including information on the number of people convicted under specific articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, their demographic characteristics, and types of punishments. Russian journalists and human rights activists have used these statistics, among others, to monitor the scale of repression in Russia.