The 2025 report also conceals information on politically motivated cases
The Judicial Department at the Supreme Court of Russia has published crime statistics for 2025 with numerous omissions. In particular, open access data no longer includes lawsuits regarding the recognition of citizens as dead or missing. This was reported by Verstka citing the Telegram channel of Важные истории, according to the portal PromPolitInform.
In the previous report for 2024, the agency recorded a record 17.5 thousand such applications. Subsequently, Russian courts began massively deleting similar information from their online resources.
Statistics of political persecution
In addition, an entire section concerning the number of convicts for crimes against the fundamentals of the state system has been removed from the general dataset. Figures under articles on high treason, sabotage, disclosure of state secrets, and extremism have been closed.
At the same time, data on the number of convicts for spreading so-called fakes about the army remained available. Under this article, 90 people were convicted in 2025.
Crimes of military personnel and security forces
The agency also completely concealed figures regarding crime among representatives of law enforcement agencies and military personnel. Previously, demographic reports indicated the number of convicted police officers, investigators, prosecutors, judges, and Federal Penitentiary Service employees.
In April of this year, the Judicial Department already violated its own regulations by delaying the publication of annual figures and temporarily deleting all statistics for two decades. Representatives of the agency explained these actions by a change in the rules for publishing information.
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