OVD-Info Launches 'Repression Dashboard' to Fight Growing Western Apathy and Fatigue over Negative Stories on Russia

Paul Goble
    Staunton, Nov. 21 – OVD-Info which for 13 years has gathered information on repression in Russia has now launched what it calls the Criminal Repression Dashboard to make such data more widely available for analysis and to fight what its activists call growing Western apathy about negative information coming out of Putin’s Russia.
    The new data source is available at repression.info/criminal/ and these reasons for its launch are discussed by its organizers who have long run a 24-hour hotline for Russians targeted by the Putin regime and who have been arrested or otherwise threatened at meduza.io/en/feature/2024/11/21/political-persecution-in-russia-by-the-numbers.
    One can only welcome the appearance of this new tool but only regret both the work that OCD-Info has had to do and the fact that it has had to set up such a tool because it must deal with an international community increasingly indifferent to the increasingly vicious behavior of the Russian authorities.