Polina Nemirovskaia is a former Director of Open Russia’s Human Rights Department.
Nemirovskaia has participated in the election campaigns of various Russian opposition leaders, including the now-imprisoned Alexei Navalny, and has been repeatedly detained by Russian police.
She specialises in protecting prisoners’ rights, and she has led rallies in support of prisoners – both political and criminal – and organised charity auctions in support of the “Bolotnaya case” prisoners.
As part of her research into the criminal justice system in Russia, she has worked in a district court and for several human rights organizations, though her primary organization Open Russia was listed as “undesirable” by Russian authorities in 2017 and forced to close in 2021.
