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 Please consider donating to OVD-Info, one of the largest and oldest Russian human rights and media organizations. For years they have been surviving on donations from within Russia, but now the services accepting donations in rubles/from Russia have cut them off without explanations, so they urgently need donations from abroad.

What do they do? First of all, they are an information hub. They collect information on political persecution in all regions of Russia, prepare reports for international organizations and supply information for any media that needs it.

They organize legal defense for people persecuted for political reasons. Information work can mostly be done by volunteers, but lawyers need to be paid even if they're human rights lawyers, since it's their main job.

They have a hotline for people being persecuted right now. They prepare information on how to avoid problems, what to do if you're arrested, and so on.

They organized a system helping people to send letters to political prisoners through online mail - for people who are afraid to do it themselves, for people who don't know how, for people abroad who cannot be registered in the official system and need mediators - and while it's volunteers who send and translate letters, you can't send them for free.

Please help if you can! The English-language page is here: http://donate.ovd.info/en

If you would like to write to a Russian political prisoner, go to vestochka.io/en (your letters and the possible responses will get translated)