Few hundred people paid with their lives for speaking their mind. Either killed in the most gruesome way, or just customarily disappeared.
There are at least a hundred something of journalists only who were murdered.
It's a brutal KGB-mafia dictatorship trying its best masquerading as a normal country. You will always see Russian diplomats on every high nosed UN, and OSCE talkshop on human rights, and blah blah blah, and yes, they like it more than life to come, and laugh at all kinds of your "security summits"