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11:35
On 28 August, Aleksandr Skobov was fined 2,000 rubles (approximately US$22) under the article on displaying extremist symbols for saying the phrase “Glory to Ukraine, glory to the heroes!” at a disciplinary commission in prison. According to his support group, neither Skobov nor his lawyer were notified about the case being opened or the date of the hearing; he only found out about the fine after receiving the official ruling.
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Вчера
15:59
Oleg Petrov was fined 5,000 roubles (approximately US$55) under the article on violation of campaigning rules (Article 5.10 of the Administrative Offences Code) for posts on VKontakte on 18 September. According to the court, he published campaign materials about the elections to the State Duma and the St Petersburg Legislative Assembly while being held in a temporary detention facility.
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15:36
Election participants in Sredneuralsk, a city in the Urals, have filed complaints with the Investigative Committee, the police and the FSB against the actions of the “Four Hundred” group, who, according to them, attempted to prevent candidates and observers from entering polling stations and blocked and rammed vehicles on 18–19 September. The complainants also reported other violations and requested that the elections at one of the polling stations be declared invalid and that the activities of the electoral commissions be investigated.
15:24
On 8 September, the Zavodskoy District Court in Kemerovo, a major industrial city in southwestern Siberia, sentenced Irina Borta to 50 hours of compulsory community service under the article on incitement to hatred and enmity (Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences). According to the court, Borta posted materials on Telegram aimed at inciting hatred and humiliating the dignity of representatives of the current authorities.
Persons
15:16
The Krasnoyarsk Krai Court has sentenced a resident of the Yemelyanovsky District to one year and eight months in a penal colony under charges of rehabilitating Nazism, due to offensive comments made about the “Immortal Regiment.” According to investigators, on 9 May in the village of Nikolskoye, the man publicly insulted the parade column and posted a video online.
14:35
A report has been drawn up against the music distributor FreshTunes for “LGBT propaganda” on the internet. The grounds for the report are unknown, and a hearing date has not yet been set.
14:00
The court fined 55-year-old preacher Eduard Charov from the Urals 500,000 roubles (approx. US$5,500) for reposting a video of Yevgeny Prigozhin and commenting on the arson of a military enlistment office. Charov was found guilty of repeated “discrediting” of the army and “justification of terrorism.”
Persons
13:26
Staff members from the campaign of “Yabloko” candidate Anna Shatunovskaya-Biurno were not allowed into the district election commission building, which meant they were unable to submit complaints about falsification before the meeting on the election results for district No. 204 began. According to the campaign manager, at one polling station, 100 votes were added to the result for “United Russia”; nonetheless, Shatunovskaya-Biurno received more than 28,000 votes.
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13:05
The Central District Court of Sochi has sentenced Yevgeny Krasnikov to three years in an open prison colony under charges of spreading knowingly false information about the use of the Armed Forces and inciting hatred (paragraph 'b' of part 1 of article 282, part 1 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). According to the court, in July 2024 Krasnikov posted such publications on his social media page.
Persons
12:34
In the Mozhaysky district of Moscow, 18-year-old election observer Danila Litvinov was detained at polling station 2661. He was taken to the police station and held overnight, with a report filed against him for petty hooliganism (Part 1, Article 20.1 of the Administrative Offences Code).
Persons
12:24
Aleksei Ogloblin was summoned for questioning because of a complaint from the chairwoman of the electoral commission. According to Ogloblin, she hindered his work as an observer at polling station No. 3403 and filed a complaint against him for his “unwarranted interest in the elections.”
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12:23
Maksim Lavrentyev, convicted in the “Kemerovo bloggers” case, has been released after serving his sentence. He was sentenced to 9 years in a penal colony in August 2024 on charges of hooliganism, inflicting bodily harm, and inciting hatred or enmity towards law enforcement officers.
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12:23
On 17 September, the Southern District Military Court sentenced Olga Denisova, a resident of the village of Urzuf, to five years in a settlement colony for assisting “Azov.” According to the prosecution, she worked for about a month as a laundress in a military unit that was later named “Azov.”
Persons
12:19
The head of the Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, stated that fifteen observers from Yabloko, the Communist Party, A Just Russia, and the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia were removed from polling stations for violating regulations and filming outside permitted areas. According to Pamfilova, 17 members of election commissions were also dismissed from the elections, including representatives from Yabloko, A Just Russia, New People, and the Communist Party.
11:35
On 28 August, Aleksandr Skobov was fined 2,000 rubles (approximately US$22) under the article on displaying extremist symbols for saying the phrase “Glory to Ukraine, glory to the heroes!” at a disciplinary commission in prison. According to his support group, neither Skobov nor his lawyer were notified about the case being opened or the date of the hearing; he only found out about the fine after receiving the official ruling.
Persons
11:22
Yabloko candidate Anastasia Kizyukova reported that on the night of 21 September, polling station No. 986 at school No. 147 in St Petersburg was evacuated due to a bomb threat. According to her, officers from the Russian National Guard inspected the building, and she was not allowed to return to the polling station.
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11:21
In Stavropol Krai, a criminal case has been opened against an 18-year-old woman under the article on public justification of terrorism (Part 2, Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). According to the investigation, on 7 January she posted a video on Telegram which is alleged to justify violent terrorist actions.
11:10
In Yekaterinburg, observers at the elections were told that they had to leave the polling stations before the vote count, citing an “order from above,” and some were detained until morning. According to the observers, they were threatened with not being paid and with problems at university, and in certain constituencies the vote count only began at night due to issues with the electronic voter register.
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10:38
At polling station 122 in St Petersburg, an independent commission member was not allowed to check turnout figures using the voter lists, despite her demand to do so and her rights under the law. Meanwhile, staff from the territorial election commission approved the refusal, and an observer was threatened with force and arrest for filming.
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10:29
A 35-year-old resident of Chita, a major city in Eastern Siberia, has been detained on suspicion of inciting violence against supporters of the “special military operation” and justifying the activities of an organisation designated as terrorist. Criminal cases have been opened against them under the articles on inciting hatred (section “b,” part 1, article 282 of the Criminal Code) and public justification of terrorism (part 2, article 205.2 of the Criminal Code).
10:12
The FSB has reported the detention of a resident of Donetsk who, according to the agency, was planning to blow up a polling station during the State Duma elections. According to law enforcement, the man received explosives from Ukrainian handlers and was supposed to plant a bomb in a car near the polling station.
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