An older Russian citizen of Afghan origin and Tajik ethnicity faced return to Russia despite his age. The report walked through the specific statutory changes that removed prior age caps for military service, established his continued mobilization eligibility, and analyzed the mechanism by which citizenship obtained through naturalization can be used to compel military registration and service — including the legal pathway toward stripping citizenship. It further documented extrajudicial punishment practices used against draft-evaders and non-compliant servicemen, including well-documented killings, and situated this within a broader pattern of ethnic discrimination and use as frontline "cannon fodder."

Forum: U.S. Immigration Court | Engagement: Expert report

A Russian citizen of Afghan origin and Tajik ethnicity, along with his spouse and children, sought asylum and withholding of removal after the principal respondent received a military call-up notice. The expert report analyzed Russia's conscription and "partial mobilization" framework, showed why age offered no real protection, and documented the pattern of harsher treatment, discriminatory assignment, and "cannon-fodder" deployment of non-Slavic, foreign-born citizens in the Russian armed forces. The report also addressed the family's shared risk profile and the absence of any viable internal relocation option within Russia.

Forum: U.S. Immigration Court (Pennsylvania) | Engagement: Expert report

A Russian national of Central Asian ethnicity, together with her father, faced return to Russia with a record of anti-war protest and financial support for an opposition organization. The report traced the full sequence of risk on return: detention by FSB border services, transfer to a Center for Combating Extremism, the two-stage interrogation process, use of torture to extract confessions, a predetermined trial outcome, and long-term imprisonment. It also analyzed the emerging pattern — illustrated by a widely reported treason conviction for a small donation — of prosecuting ordinary citizens with any U.S. connection, and documented systemic discrimination against non-Slavic Russian citizens.

Forum: U.S. Immigration Court | Engagement: Expert report

An older Russian woman sought asylum after an adult child fled Russia to avoid mobilization and became active in anti-war protest abroad, prompting threats of denunciation from within her own extended family. The respondent had also worked for years at the Moscow office of a U.S. law firm that closed after taking an anti-war position, and had a limited history of protest participation in Russia over a decade earlier before resuming activism in the United States. The report addressed Russia's escalating treatment of returning "defectors," family-based imputed political opinion, exposure under the Foreign Agents Law, and the compounding effect of age and limited resources on return.

Forum: U.S. Immigration Court | Engagement: Expert report

A Russian citizen of ethnic Ukrainian background left Russia and was later summoned by Russian investigators over protest activity and social-media posts dating from years earlier — including a public display of Ukrainian colors and ongoing financial support for Ukraine after departure. The report analyzed Russia's use of a "continuing offense" doctrine to retroactively prosecute old anti-war expression, drew a parallel to recent treason prosecutions of ordinary citizens for small donations, and presented ethnic-Ukrainian identity as an independent, affirmative basis for persecution grounded in the Russian government's own public statements.

Forum: U.S. Immigration Court (Texas) | Engagement: Expert report (in preparation)

A mid-level employee at a Russian financial institution faced near-certain conviction on fraud-related charges after the executive who actually controlled the alleged scheme fled the country and became unreachable. The expert opinion explained the "palochnaya" (quota) system that drives Russia's roughly 99% criminal conviction rate, the institutional pressure on investigators and judges to secure a conviction regardless of individual culpability, and the resulting practice of prosecuting accessible subordinates as substitutes for absent principals. It also addressed a documented act of solidarity with political prisoners as an aggravating factor, and a chronic health condition that would be exploited during pretrial detention to coerce a confession — supporting a non-refoulement claim under the prohibition on torture and inhuman treatment.

Forum: Georgia — national courts / European Convention on Human Rights, Article 3 non-refoulement proceeding | Engagement: Expert opinion