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20.09.2026
18:16
In Moscow, observers at polling stations report pressure from commission members and police, including threats to remove them from the site and restrictions on monitoring the voting process. At polling station 2753, the commission chair threatened an independent member of the PGR with police action after they requested to see applications for home voting.
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15:43
Priest Grigory Mikhnov-Vaitenko has been fined 5,000 rubles (approx. US$55) for reposting a link on his Telegram channel to the YouTube channel of Novaya Gazeta. Europe. The Smolninsky District Court in St Petersburg ruled this was cooperation with an “undesirable organisation.”
15:42
In Saratov, journalist Elena Nalimova had her home searched in connection with a case concerning the alleged insult of Yulia Litnevskaya, a United Russia regional parliament deputy, over a voice message in an eco-activists' chat. On 21 September, investigators charged Nalimova under the article on insulting a representative of the authorities (Article 319 of the Criminal Code), even though an expert examination by the Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences found no insults in the message.
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14:55
Varvara Kosheleva, head of Anna Shatunovskaya-Burno’s campaign team, reported that she was beaten at a polling station in Moscow while overseeing the vote count as the candidate’s representative. According to Kosheleva, she and Shatunovskaya-Burno were not allowed into the district election commission, and she is now undergoing a medical examination in hospital.
14:21
A court in Nalchik, a city in the North Caucasus, fined a 40-year-old local resident under the article on distributing extremist materials (Article 20.29 of the Administrative Offences Code). According to the police, she posted an online advert offering for sale a book from the Federal List of Extremist Materials.
13:59
Five residents of Kirov Oblast aged 16 to 19 are to be tried on charges of carrying out terrorist attacks, laundering criminal proceeds and aiding terrorism. According to the FSB, the teenagers were recruited via Telegram channels advertising “quick money.”
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13:57
The Savelovsky Court in Moscow fined an engineer from Skoltech 500,000 roubles (US$5,500) for donating 300 roubles (US$3.30) to FBK, and ordered this amount to be confiscated in favour of the state. The criminal case was initiated over a transfer made on 5 August 2021; the prosecutor had requested a sentence of three and a half years in prison, but the court took mitigating circumstances into account.
13:15
The Sverdlovsk Regional Court has toughened the sentence for 23-year-old Daniil Nuriyev to two years and ten months in a general regime penal colony in a case concerning public calls for extremist activity, vandalism and hooliganism over graffiti in the Azerbaijani language. The court mitigated the punishment under the article on incitement to extremism by removing the motive of national hatred or enmity, but increased the sentence for the hooliganism episode to one and a half years.
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13:15
The Labytnangi court is reviewing an appeal regarding the refusal to allow Azat Miftakhov’s wife and legal representative, Elena Gorban, access to the prison colony, as well as the violation of Miftakhov’s right to legal assistance. Attendance by members of the public and the press continues to be restricted at hearings on the case, and Elena Gorban was denied a request to recuse the judge due to a poor connection and her inability to participate in the proceedings.
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13:14
The Tverskoy District Court in Moscow fined three women for holding a picket near the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin on 19 July—they were wearing wedding dresses and holding signs. The charges were brought under the article on violating the rules for holding a picket; the details of the signs and the amount of the fine are unknown.
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12:55
The Surgut District Court upheld the draft board’s refusal to allow a young man to substitute military service with alternative civilian service, despite a statement attesting to his pacifist beliefs. The court ruled that this evidence was insufficient.
12:30
The Military Court of Appeal in Vlasikha, a town near Moscow, upheld the six-year sentence handed down to Left Front leader Sergei Udaltsov, who was convicted of justifying terrorism. The defence requested that the hearing be postponed due to the absence of a lawyer, but the court denied this motion.
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10:25
Mansur Movlaev, who fled Chechnya to escape torture and has been detained in Kazakhstan since May 2025, has reported that after two suicide attempts, a prosecutor met with him and stated their intention to extradite him to Russia, despite a ban from the UN Human Rights Committee. Movlaev says he faces the risk of extrajudicial execution if extradited and is requesting that the Committee’s measures be upheld.
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09:40
A 68-year-old man serving a sentence in a correctional facility in the Zavyalovsky district of Udmurtia, a region in the Urals, has been sentenced to four years in a strict regime penal colony on charges of “rehabilitating Nazism” (paragraph “v” part 2 article 354.1 of the Russian Criminal Code). According to investigators, he allegedly publicly spread false information about the activities of the USSR during the Second World War among other prisoners.
07:02
In Krasnoyarsk, a major city in Siberia, a criminal case has been opened against a 40-year-old man under the article on insulting a public official (Article 319 of the Criminal Code) because of a video containing obscene language directed at police officers, which he posted on social media on 18 September. The man was taken to the duty station, where he admitted guilt and apologised to the police officers.
05:18
In Komsomolsk-on-Amur, a major city in the Russian Far East, a 40-year-old woman was detained on suspicion of publicly inciting terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). According to the investigation, she posted a video in a messenger app that allegedly contained calls for terrorist activity. The woman has been placed under house arrest.
00:12
On 18 September, the Baltic Fleet Military Court sentenced 56-year-old Ksenia Agafonova to nine years in a general regime penal colony in a case concerning the financing and justification of terrorism. According to the prosecution, she transferred money to a virtual wallet belonging to people linked with terrorist organisations, and wrote a comment calling for the killing of a state official, whose name has not been disclosed.
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21.09.2026
22:26
In Moscow, the observer Litvinov, who was detained at the polling station after trying to break free from the hands of the riot police, was fined 500 roubles (about US$5) for petty hooliganism. According to Litvinov, he spent the night at the police station, and the police could not decide which charge to bring against him.
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22:02
In August, the Zavolzhsky District Court of Yaroslavl fined Anastasia Shadrova, a lecturer at Yaroslavl Medical University, 5,000 roubles (US$55) for sharing a link to the “British Council” website on VKontakte. This is at least the fifth time that lecturers at universities in Yaroslavl—a city in central Russia—have been fined for mentioning “undesirable” organisations.
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21:01
Denis Zagorye, a journalist from Murmansk in northern Russia, who collaborates with the Barents Observer, has been declared wanted—this information appeared in the Ministry of Internal Affairs database. Previously, he was fined under a charge related to association with an “undesirable” organisation, and in October 2025, the Ministry of Justice included him in the register of “foreign agents.”
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21:01
In St Petersburg, a magistrates’ court fined Boris Noginsky 2,000 roubles (US$22) under the article on interference in the work of an election commission (Art. 5.69 of the Code of Administrative Offences). According to the court, on 20 September he disrupted the commission’s work at polling station No. 1325, provoked a conflict and demanded additional ballots.
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