The Supreme Court Classified Data on People Convicted Under Political Articles and on Crimes Committed by Security Forces

The Supreme Court classified data on people convicted under political articles and on crimes committed by security forces

The Judicial Department under the Supreme Court today published statistics on the state of crime in Russia in 2025, from which a whole range of data had disappeared, Verstka noted.

Rows with classified data in the department’s reports are highlighted in gray. For example, information has been hidden on the number of claims to have citizens declared dead or missing, a significant share of which may concern participants in the war.

In addition, the Judicial Department classified information on a number of articles that are used in Russia for political persecution. An entire chapter with data on the number of people convicted in cases involving “crimes against the foundations of the constitutional order and state security” disappeared from the statistics.

In particular, statistics were classified for cases involving treason, disclosure of state secrets, sabotage, organizing an extremist community, and “discrediting” the army. At the same time, the department provides data on cases involving the spread of “fakes” about the army (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code); according to them, in 2025, 90 people were convicted under this article.

Data for 2025 has also been hidden on how many people were brought to administrative responsibility for “discrediting” the army (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), inciting hatred (20.3.1), calls for separatism (20.3.2), and violating the procedure for the activities of a “foreign agent” (19.34).

Statistics on crimes committed by military personnel and security forces have also been classified. Previously, in its report on the demographic data of convicted people, the Judicial Department indicated how many crimes had been committed by service members, judges, prosecutors, investigators, police officers, and employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service. In the statistics for 2025, these rows are shaded gray.

🩵As Verstka previously wrote, in April the Judicial Department did not publish the data for 2025, violating its own regulations, and also removed all court statistics from its website for the past 20 years.

🩵The department explained the removal of the statistics as due to “a change in the regulations on data publication,” Important Stories wrote. In June, data up to and including the first half of 2025 was again published on the website.

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