Polina Nemirovskaia

Open Russia was designated as "undesirable" by the Russian government in 2017 and its offices raided by the police in February 2019 for hosting a videoconference with exiled Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

[3] While still a teenager, she campaigned for Boris Nemtsov, an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin.

[4] In 2016 she served as chief of staff for the opposition campaign of Maria Baronova.

Nemirovskaia has given televised interviews and spoken about Russian repression at Forum 2000, the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, UN Watch, and other venues.

[5][4][6][7] She made international headlines in 2018 when she criticized the government for censoring the satirical British film The Death of Stalin.