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14.09.2026
16:13
In the Tula region, Kira Kalinicheva, a candidate from the Yabloko party, has been unable to submit the lists of election observers to the Zarechenskaya and Proletarskaya territorial election commissions due to reports of bomb threats to the buildings. Party representatives say that the acceptance of documents was halted on the final day for submissions, and they have been unable to contact the election commission management.
16:10
The Cheryomushki District Court in Moscow has blocked access to three web pages featuring the text of “Heated Rivalry” by American author Rachel Reid. The prosecution called for the sites to be blocked due to what the agency claims is the “promotion of extremist LGBT ideology” in the book. There has been no official announcement about a ban on the book itself or on the associated TV series.
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15:52
The Khabez District Court in Karachay-Cherkessia will hear a criminal case against 15 people accused of creating and participating in the activities of a banned organisation (Article 282.2 of the Russian Criminal Code). According to the court, two are charged with organising the group, while the rest face charges of participation; nearly all are in custody, with one person under house arrest.
15:12
In the Yaroslavl region, a 19-year-old local resident has been detained on suspicion of making public calls for terrorism online. A criminal case has been opened against them under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code, and the court has remanded the young person in a pre-trial detention centre.
15:01
On 11 September, the Rostov Regional Court sentenced a man to 20 years in prison on charges of state treason, attempted sabotage, and desecration of the memory of the defenders of the Fatherland. According to the prosecution, he allegedly cooperated with “Ukrainian secret services,” tried to damage transport infrastructure, and published an image of the St George ribbon with an offensive caption online.
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14:55
In Kostroma Region, a criminal case has been opened against a minor under the article on the public desecration of symbols of Russia’s military glory (Part 4, Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, the teenager cut up a St George’s ribbon, set it on fire, and stepped on the fragments, while two of their peers have been placed on a preventive register.
14:33
In Nizhnevartovsk, a city in Western Siberia, the court refused to remove Communist Party candidate Stepan Povkh from the election over his use of the phrase “We are waiting for change,” a line from Viktor Tsoi’s song. Lawsuits against other candidates were also dismissed, and administrative cases did not affect their participation in the election.
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RusNews
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14:29
The Ministry of Justice has designated the Facebook group “Perm-36” as a foreign agent, a group which Perm-based journalist Yulia Balabanova is not connected to. Balabanova stated that she has not carried out any activities on behalf of “Perm-36” since February 2024 and does not administer the corresponding page.
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14:29
The Prokhladny court sentenced a woman to a three-year suspended sentence under the article on financing extremist activity (Part 1, Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). According to the investigation, in August 2021, she transferred money to an organisation whose activities are banned in Russia.
14:23
Boris Nadezhdin, as well as the outlets ASTRA, Dozhd and Important Stories, have reported a mass influx of bots on their Telegram channels. In their view, this may be a targeted attack related to the elections in Russia.
14:01
In Chuvashia, schoolgirls were tearing down campaign posters of the A Just Russia party and putting up materials for Olga Petrova, Deputy Chair of the State Council and candidate from United Russia. The law prohibits involving minors in election campaigning and deliberately destroying lawfully placed campaign materials.
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13:36
In Krasnodar, a major city in southern Russia, officers from Centre “E” detained a local woman over videos in which she criticised street advertisements for military contracts and spoke out in favour of peace. She was forced to apologise on camera, and according to the Telegram channel “SMERSH Kubani,” she faces charges of “discrediting” the army.
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13:36
The case of “spreading fake news” about the Russian army against anthropologist Vasilina Orlova was opened on the basis of the testimony of two witnesses who had read her posts on VKontakte and Telegram. On 11 September, the case was submitted to the Ostankinsky District Court in Moscow.
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12:55
In St Petersburg, the campaign video for Dmitry Khorzov, the Yabloko party candidate, with the slogans “For Peace and Freedom” and “For a Life Without Fear,” was taken down early from the media façade of the Lider Tower. According to the party’s branch, the owner removed the advertisement under pressure, although the video was originally scheduled to be shown until 16 September.
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RusNews
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11:43
In the summer, the Sol-Iletsk District Court transferred lawyer Sergey Salazkin from an open prison to a general regime colony, and the higher court ruled this decision lawful. According to acquaintances, Salazkin had previously been placed in a punishment cell several times, and the administration of the facility demanded stricter conditions, declaring him a persistent offender of the rules.
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11:39
Buddhist Ilya Vasilyev reported that while reviewing the case materials in a Moscow pre-trial detention centre, he was shown the documents on a blurry screen for just 1–2 seconds per page, and was later transferred to Ufa, a major city in Bashkortostan. On 14 September, the Moscow City Court postponed the hearing of his appeal against the verdict.
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11:33
Maksim Kruglov, deputy chair of the Yabloko party, who was convicted in a case about “fake news” regarding the Russian Armed Forces, has been transferred from the Matrosskaya Tishina remand prison hospital back to Remand Prison No. 2, Butyrka. In June 2026, Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court sentenced him to seven years in a penal colony and banned him from administering websites for three years.
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11:31
In Stavropol, a city in southern Russia, a criminal case has been opened against a 21-year-old resident of a neighbouring republic on charges of publicly justifying terrorism (Part 2, Article 205.2 of the Russian Criminal Code). According to investigators, in October 2023 they posted an audio recording on social media that, in the view of investigators, justifies violent terrorist acts.
11:08
The Moscow prosecutor’s office has announced the initiation of a criminal case against rapper Noize MC (Ivan Alekseev) for “justifying terrorism.” According to the prosecutor’s office, at one of his concerts outside Russia, he publicly justified a terrorist ideology and spoke positively about a terrorist organisation.
10:38
The Supreme Court refused to review the verdict against Marina Zheleznyakova, who was found guilty under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism and fined 2 million rubles (approximately US$22,000). According to the court, Zheleznyakova posted false information in a messenger app about the activities of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War.