The board of trustees consists of Svetlana Bahmina,[4] Irina Yasina,[5] Vladimir Pereverzin, Tamara Eidelman and Maria Aismont.

School of Public Defender is an enlightening project aimed to teach people all necessary legal mechanisms of defence in courts.

The project of creating an online guide in the form of a "prison wikipedia" became the winner of the Human Rights Incubator NGO Memorial competition of grassroots initiatives, which allowed the foundation team to share their experience and knowledge.

It said that Russia Behind Bars together with the Center for Strategic Research of Alexei Kudrin were developing their draft reform of the penal system.

Olga Romanova reported[21] that serious changes were being prepared regarding the reduction of prison violence, personnel issues, labor organization and social adaptation.

The "RS" organisation affiliated with "Russia Behind Bars" was leading the project to improve the financial literacy of prisoners and their relatives for two years from 2015 to 2017.

The organization filed a lawsuit[25] against representatives and operators of the World Bank in Russia, the court acknowledged that "RS" fulfilled all obligations under the contracts.

In the fall of 2018, the former prisoner Inga Krivitskaya registered the doppelganger of the "Russia Behind Bars" foundation with the Ministry of Justice and filed a lawsuit against Olga Romanova and Lev Ponomaryov to protect honor and dignity.

[28] On 26 March EU granted to Rus Sidyashchaya for opening in Russian regions so-called "juristical clinics" to help those who are under investigation and illegally convicted.

On 7 May Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation has added Rus Sidyashchaya to the register of non-profit organisations, as a foreign agent.

[29] In the summer of 2024, Russian authorities declared Russland hinter Gittern, the German legal entity of the Rus Sidyashchaya foundation, an "undesirable organization".