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30.09.2026
14:40
The Supreme Court has refused Valery Ovcharenko a review of their case on terrorism financing, ruling that the search, seizure and inspection of their phone were lawful. The court also decided that a separate court order is not required to inspect items and documents seized during a search.
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14:31
The administration of Perm did not allow defenders of Trudovye Reservy to hold a rally outside the Iskra cinema near the stadium and suggested they hold the event in the Kirovsky district instead. Activists called this decision unlawful and appealed to the prosecutor’s office, continuing to stage solo pickets in the city centre.
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12:22
The Vologda Regional Court sentenced a 36-year-old native of Gorky in absentia to one year in an open prison under charges of rehabilitating Nazism (part 4 of article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) over a post on VKontakte at the end of 2024. The man has also been banned for three years from administering websites and publishing materials online.
12:13
Mountaineer Mikhail Semenov, who is serving a year in a penal colony settlement in Elektrostal near Moscow on charges of illegal border crossing, has lost consciousness several times in the punishment cell (SHIZO), according to his wife, due to serious health conditions and lack of medical care. She also reported that her husband had a bruise after leaving the isolation cell and stated there was pressure from the colony staff.
Persons
11:55
The Tverskoy District Court in Moscow has extended the house arrest of Novaya Gazeta journalist Oleg Roldugin until 10 January. He is accused of unlawful use of personal data by a group of people in prior collusion (clause “v” part 3 article 272.1 of the Criminal Code). Roldugin himself denies any guilt.
Persons
11:54
Tatyana Schneider, the head of the Omsk branch of the Yabloko party, has been charged with incitement of hatred (Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences) over a comment made on VKontakte in 2011. She says she did not write the comment and links the case to her accounts having been hacked. The prosecutor’s office summoned Schneider to give an explanation and to take part in drawing up the official report, and the court hearing is scheduled for 21 October.
Persons
11:14
The Northern Fleet Military Court has sentenced a 46-year-old resident of Arkhangelsk, a city in north-western Russia, to a fine of 500,000 roubles (approximately US$5,700) under the article on public justification of terrorism on the internet (Part 2, Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, the man posted comments in a messenger in support of the activities of Ukrainian nationalist organisations.
11:01
The FSB has reported the detention of a resident of Mari El born in 2008, who is suspected of state treason. According to law enforcement, they were passing information about the region’s defence enterprises to an employee of the Ukrainian Defence Intelligence and receiving money for it.
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06:30
The tattoo artist Ekaterina Lopaeva in Perm, a major city in the Urals, was summoned by an investigator over a photo she posted of a tattoo showing the Virgin Mary with a weapon wheel from the video game GTA V instead of a halo—following a complaint about the possible offence to religious feelings. The Investigative Committee is conducting an inquiry; a decision on whether to open a case has not yet been made.
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20:56
Dmitry Semenov, a journalist and former coordinator of Open Russia in Chuvashia, has been declared wanted on criminal charges of participating in the activities of an “undesirable organisation” (part 1, article 284.1 of the Russian Criminal Code). His wanted notices have been posted on police boards in Cheboksary, a city on the Volga River east of Moscow, and according to Mediazona, he was declared wanted back in February.
Persons
20:27
In Sverdlovsk Region and other areas, criminal cases have been initiated against members of the “Citizens of the USSR” movement, which has been declared extremist. The courts have already issued rulings concerning Yevgeny Shustikov and Andrei Kozlov. Shustikov has been sent for compulsory treatment, while Kozlov received a sentence of 2 years and 8 months of forced labour, but the punishment was deemed served due to time spent in pre-trial detention.
19:20
A case has been opened against journalist Valery Klepkin, who lives in Finland, for participating in the activities of an “undesirable organisation” due to his work at Initiative for Resistance and Dialogues and for reposting independent media. The case materials have been sent to the Petrozavodsk City Court, and the formal reason for adding Klepkin to the “foreign agents” register was a statement from the Ministry of Justice regarding his publications.
Persons
18:45
An examination found no calls to resist the Russian Armed Forces in the video by lawyer and former Volgograd State University lecturer Roman Melnichenko, but the court rejected the appeal against the initiation of a criminal case. Melnichenko has been transferred from a medical correctional facility to Detention Centre No. 5 in Leninsk, Volgograd region—a town in southern Russia—and he reports having serious health problems.
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18:18
In July 2025, Russian military forces detained 68-year-old Galina Bekhter in the occupied part of Zaporizhzhia region; she was accused of treason for transferring money to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In March 2026, the court sentenced Bekhter to 11 years in a penal colony, and after an appeal, the term was increased to 12 and a half years, despite the woman’s serious health condition.
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17:47
In September, the Akhmatovsky District Court of Grozny fined Lena Patyaeva from St Petersburg 150,000 roubles (approximately US$1,600) for holding a solo protest marking three years since the abduction of her friend Seda Suleymanova. Patyaeva was found guilty under the article on repeated violations of public assembly regulations—the same article for which she was fined in St Petersburg in November 2025.
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17:00
Activist Vladimir Bodyashkin, who was sentenced to 15 days’ arrest under a protocol for violating the rules for holding a public event due to the Communist Party rally in Moscow, has been released from the Sakharovo detention centre. Earlier, Darya Korolkova and Kamilla Fetiskina, who were arrested under similar protocols, were also released from the same detention centre.
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16:49
The Pskov Court of Appeal will consider the appeals against the sentence of Yabloko deputy chair Lev Shlosberg on 29 October at 10:00. Previously, the court sentenced Shlosberg to 11 years and 1 month in a general regime penal colony on charges of repeat “discrediting the army” and spreading “fake news about the army.”
16:48
In the Irkutsk region, relatives of 47-year-old Vladimir Ch. from Sayansk claim he was forced to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defence while in pre-trial detention, despite previously being deemed unfit for service. The man was transferred from Detention Centre No. 5 in Tulun to Detention Centre No. 6 in Angarsk, and after that, he stopped responding to messages.
16:28
In Sochi, the court sentenced Vyacheslav Grishkov to a three-year suspended sentence under the article on financing an extremist organisation (Part 1, Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). According to the court, in August 2021 he transferred 2,100 rubles (approx. US$23) after watching a video calling for support of an organisation designated as extremist.
Persons
16:28
The Pacific Fleet Military Court in Magadan found a 50-year-old sailor guilty under the article on public calls for terrorism (Part 2, Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). The man was detained after arriving on a foreign vessel in July 2026.
16:28
An elderly woman from the village of Chernomorsky in Crimea has been sent to a pre-trial detention centre on charges of treason. According to investigators, acting on instructions from Ukrainian intelligence, she photographed air defence sites and passed on their coordinates.
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