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Today
14:42
In Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals, a court sentenced two teenagers, aged 15 and 16, to four and four and a half years in prison in a case involving preparation for a terrorist attack. According to the investigation, in December 2024 they received an online assignment promising money to set fire to a relay cabinet on railway tracks in Tyumen, another large city in Siberia, but were detained.
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Today
14:42
In Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals, a court sentenced two teenagers, aged 15 and 16, to four and four and a half years in prison in a case involving preparation for a terrorist attack. According to the investigation, in December 2024 they received an online assignment promising money to set fire to a relay cabinet on railway tracks in Tyumen, another large city in Siberia, but were detained.
13:35
In Izhevsk, a major city in the Urals, left-wing activists put up posters criticising the election results, and another local resident held a solo picket calling for a re-election. Earlier, the authorities had refused to authorise a rally against election fraud that had been organised by Dmitry Morozov.
Persons
13:26
In Bryansk, a city in western Russia, the court sentenced a 54-year-old woman to one year and six months of probation for financing a foreign organisation declared “undesirable” (under Part 2, Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, from December 2022 to March 2023, she transferred more than 39,000 rubles (approximately US$430) to support this organisation.
13:25
Political analyst Aleksandr Kynev, who is accused in a drugs case, was hospitalised after his detention with two fractures of the shin bone—according to “Slovo Zashchite,” the injuries may have been the result of torture. Kynev is in the hospital at the Matrosskaya Tishina remand centre in Moscow; the Federal Penitentiary Service is conducting an investigation.
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13:01
The Central District Court of Sochi has sentenced Andrey Mironov to one year in a penal settlement under the article concerning public calls for extremist activity online (part 2, article 280 of the Criminal Code). According to the court, in October 2023, Mironov posted a comment in a messenger chat calling for violence against Russian people.
Persons
12:41
The Leninsky Court in Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals, has fined LDPR activist Aleksandr Masorov 25,000 roubles (approx. US$280) for holding a picket in support of student benefits near the Museum of the History, Science and Technology of the Sverdlovsk Railway. According to the police, he did not file a notification about the rally; Masorov did not contest the charge.
Persons
11:56
The publishing house Individuum, founded in 2015, has announced its closure, according to editor-in-chief Alexei Kiselev. He stated that some books will be published by other publishers; the reasons for the closure have not been disclosed.
10:41
In Sokolniki, Moscow, a young man was detained after holding a solo protest against election fraud. According to him, after 40 minutes of picketing, he was released from the police station without a report being filed, and passers-by supported him and shook his hand.
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RusNews
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10:31
In Moscow, Tanya’s husband was arrested over donations to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK). He had set up regular donations before Navalny’s organisations were designated as extremist, but the money continued to be withdrawn from his account after that—from September 2021 to February 2022. He cancelled the automatic payments two weeks before the war began.
The prosecutor is seeking a six-year sentence in a strict-regime prison, while Tanya now cares for his mother and lives between court hearings and visits at the pre-trial detention centre.
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SOTAvision
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10:09
A resident of Venevsky District was fined 20,000 roubles (approximately US$220) for posting online a video showing the aftermath of a drone attack. The Venevsky District Court found them guilty under the article on violating rules of conduct during a state of increased readiness (Part 1, Article 20.6.1 of the Administrative Code).
10:08
The administration of Bolshoy Kamen, a Pacific coastal city, refused activists’ request to hold a rally against a landfill on 3 October, citing the fact that Music Day would be taking place at the chosen location. The authorities also claimed that there was no longer any need for the rally, as the landfill would supposedly be constructed elsewhere, but local residents do not believe this.
09:53
In Chelyabinsk, the parents of 11-year-old Ira and Polina Poteikhina, who both have the rare disease SMA, are trying to secure the return of the original medication Spinraza for their daughters after their condition worsened while taking the Russian drug Lantesens. The court ruled that the mother’s refusal of the treatment offered was unlawful, but did not require that the girls be treated with a specific medication, so the family continues to fight for the previous therapy.
04:20
47-year-old Alexey Borisov from Yadrin has been charged under the article on insulting the memory of the defenders of the Fatherland (Part 3, Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) for allegedly attempting to extinguish the Eternal Flame in Victory Square on 24 May 2026. The criminal case was submitted to the Supreme Court of the Chuvash Republic on 23 September.
Persons
04:19
In Okha, a town in Russia’s Far East, a criminal case has been opened against a 19-year-old local resident under the article on public desecration of symbols of Russia’s military glory (Part 4, Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code). Investigators allege that on 15 June, the young person climbed onto a memorial plaque at a monument to fallen soldiers, and on 17 June posted photographs of the incident on social media.
Вчера
20:56
The Ministry of Justice has added the organisation Friends of Falun Gong Europe to the list of undesirable organisations. The organisation is based in the United Kingdom and supports followers of the Falun Gong movement.
20:56
The Sovetsky District Court in Novosibirsk fined Elena Buzlyakova 300,000 roubles (approx. US$3,200) under the article on financing extremist activity for transferring 500 roubles (approx. US$5.30) to the Anti-Corruption Foundation on 17 August 2021. On 4 September, the Novosibirsk Regional Court upheld the sentence without changes.
Persons
19:05
On 3 September 2026, the Murmansk Regional Court upheld a fine of 300,000 roubles (approximately US$3,300) for a local resident in a case concerning the financing of extremism (Part 1, Article 282.3 of the Russian Criminal Code). According to investigators, the man transferred money to a foreign organisation after watching a video on YouTube; he admitted his guilt.
Persons
17:09
Two reports have been submitted to the Kyshtym City Court in Chelyabinsk Region against Pavel Talankin, the creator of the film “Mister Nobody vs Putin”: one for failing to submit a ‘foreign agent’ report to the Ministry of Justice (part 2, article 19.34 of the Administrative Code), and another for participating in the activities of an ‘undesirable’ organisation (article 20.33 of the Administrative Code). Talankin himself said that he did not write the report and does not know what led to the protocol concerning the ‘undesirable’ organisation.
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13:21
The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has declared the Centre for Civic Education “Almenda” an “undesirable organisation”; this information appeared in the official register on 23 September. The reasons for the decision were not explained. The centre reported that the decision was made on 9 September 2026.
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12:12
In Moscow, activist Varvara Kosheleva and her husband were assaulted near their home by men who identified themselves as participants in the so-called “special military operation.” According to Kosheleva, the attackers insulted both her and her husband, and doctors recorded that she had bruises and contusions on her face.
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