Russia Charging Patterns in Russian Political Cases Predate the 2022 Invasion: Evidence From 14 Years of Case Records Trace Origin LLC · Part VI · Data: OVD-Info · Second revision, 9 October 2026 The series so far Part I found three groups of charges in OVD-Info records: speech, organizational, and protest. Part II described the 6,702 people in those records: their charges, their imprisonment rates, and the severity
Russia What a Co-occurrence Graph Found When It Compared 7,132 Russian Prosecutions to 12,264 Chinese Political Prisoner Records Trace Origin LLC · Comparative Structural Analysis · Revised 12,264 Chinese records · 7,132 Russian records · 4 methods reported Two prosecution datasets return similar modularity scores, but their graphs are built differently. Russia and China have different Criminal Codes, different languages, and different modern legal traditions. They share Soviet institutional influence,
Russia What Happens When You Map 831 Russian Prosecutions to the Sustainable Development Goals Trace Origin LLC · Preliminary Analysis · Data: OVD-Info 7,132 prosecutions · 8 SDG domains · 1 mapping Political prosecution targets more than rights. It targets development. When governments report progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, political prisoners do not appear in the data. Prosecutions are classified as criminal justice. The
Russia What a Knowledge Graph Found Across Five Authoritarian Systems, One Million Soviet Records, and the Six Categories of Political Prosecution That Keep Coming Back Trace Origin LLC · Comparative Analysis Legal note. This report is a structural analysis of publicly available datasets. It documents patterns in charge co-occurrence, not individual culpability. No individual or entity is accused of any crime. SKOS charge-to-ICCPR mappings and Soviet-to-modern article equivalences are analyst judgments,
Russia 45 Children in Russia's Prosecution Machine: What Happens When the System That Doesn't Distinguish Targets Someone Under 18 Trace Origin LLC · Report IV Report IV · OVD-Info dataset · 7,132 prosecutions The system does not distinguish by age. Between 2009 and 2025, Russia opened 48 criminal prosecutions against approximately 45 children under the age of 18 (25 named, 20 anonymous or unidentified in the OVD-Info dataset). 12
Russia Two Databases, One Person: What Happens When You Merge 7,111 Russian Prosecutions with 400,000 Sanctioned Entities Eric BrattinReport III · Aug 2026 · 217K triples + 400K sanctions entities Read Report I: The Machine → Read Report II: Who Is Inside It → A report from the record · Russia: the cross-reference Two databases. One person. We merged 7,111 Russian political prosecution records (OVD-Info, 217,814 triples) with 400,
Russia Who Is Inside the Machine: What 217,814 Triples Reveal About the People Russia Prosecutes Eric BrattinFollow-up · Aug 2026 · 217,814 triples (OVD-Info) A report from the record · Follow-up: Russian political persecutions Read the first report → The first report found the machine. This one found who is inside it. The initial analysis identified three charging regimes, structural breaks at 2017 and 2019,
Russia What a Knowledge Graph Found in 7,111 Russian Prosecution Records That No Single Case File Could Show Eric Brattin Report · Aug 2026 · 7,111 (7,132 records in the dataset; 7,111 retained after filtering incomplete entries) records (OVD-Info) Read Part II: Who Is Inside the Machine → Read Part III: Two Databases, One Person → Read Part IV: 45 Children → Read Part V: Five Systems, One Century
