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13:23
At the Central District Court of Chelyabinsk, a city in the Urals, the state prosecutor in the case against environmental activist Nadezhda Vertyakhovskaya has changed. The new prosecutor filed a motion for a repeat linguistic examination of two of her comments. Vertyakhovskaya is accused of defaming Judge Anna Shmeleva over her review of the verdict against StopGOK lawyer Vladimir Kazantsev; she does not admit guilt.
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15:50
Alexander Shestun, who is on hunger strike, has reported a sharp deterioration in his health and emergency hospitalisation in Torzhok. According to him, he was given an ultimatum: if he does not end his hunger strike, he will not receive medical assistance.
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15:37
The Vasileostrovsky District Court in St Petersburg has sentenced Fyodor Zaitsev to 1 year and 6 months in a penal settlement under Part 2 of Article 280 of the Russian Criminal Code, for a comment in a chat about the Wagner PMC mutiny on 24 June 2023. Zaitsev has also been banned from administering websites for 2 years, and 10,000 roubles (about US$110) have been confiscated.
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15:13
A resident of the Krasnopartizansky district has been found guilty of financing extremist activities (Part 1, Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, they transferred money three times to support a banned organisation between February and June 2022. The court sentenced them to three years of compulsory labour.
15:05
In 2025, courts in Russia issued fines totalling 69 million rubles (approx. US$750,000) in cases related to “LGBT propaganda,” with more than half of this amount coming from Moscow. Most of these cases were heard in Kemerovo region, a major industrial area in southwestern Siberia, while the largest fine—900,000 rubles (approx. US$10,000)—was handed to the “Chitai-Gorod” bookshop in Zabaykalsky Krai, in eastern Siberia.
15:03
Tomsk Polytechnic University has expelled activist Anton Isakov following a submission from the prosecutor’s office, citing his publications from 2017 and 2019 as the reason. Previously, Isakov had been charged with participating in the activities of an “undesirable” organisation and was arrested for 15 days for a post featuring the logo of a social network that was deemed a banned symbol.
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14:41
Boris Grebenshchikov was fined 15,000 roubles (approximately US$170) for an interview with Meduza on YouTube. The musician was accused of collaborating with an “undesirable organisation” (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code) because of the interview in April 2026.
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14:10
Anton Isakov, head of the Tomsk branch of “Rassvet,” was expelled from Tomsk Polytechnic University following disciplinary proceedings over publications from 2017 and 2019. On 6 October, Isakov filed a lawsuit with the Kirovsky District Court in Tomsk, seeking to overturn his expulsion and be reinstated at the university.
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13:52
Anatoly Yevtushenko was sentenced in Krasnodar, a major city in southern Russia, to two years in a penal colony on charges of participating in the activities of the organisation Jehovah’s Witnesses, which has been designated as extremist (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The appeal court upheld the sentence.
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13:31
The Tagansky Court in Moscow has fined Telegram and Google 3.8 million roubles (approximately US$42,000) for refusing to remove, according to Roskomnadzor, fake information about the 'special military operation' and illegal content. The streaming service Twitch was also fined 14 million roubles (approximately US$155,000) for refusing to remove prohibited content.
13:31
The Tverskoy District Court in Moscow fined 21-year-old student Olesya Kulimova 30,000 roubles (approximately US$325) under the article for “discrediting” the military, after she wore two bracelets—one blue and one yellow—in the metro on 27 August. According to Kulimova, she wore the bracelets for the first time, and was detained after someone called the police.
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13:31
Aleksei Ptushkin, a postgraduate student at the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy, was sentenced by the Chertanovsky District Court in Moscow to five years in a penal colony for two comments about the destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant. He was charged with spreading military “fake news” and taken into custody immediately after the verdict.
13:30
The Baltic Fleet Military Court has sentenced 68-year-old Igor Odintsov from Neman, a town in the Kaliningrad region near the Lithuanian border, to six years in a high-security penal colony under charges of justifying terrorism due to his anti-war posts. According to the Lithuanian border service, on 17 September he tried to swim across the border to seek asylum in Lithuania, but he was returned to Russia.
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At the Central District Court of Chelyabinsk, a city in the Urals, the state prosecutor in the case against environmental activist Nadezhda Vertyakhovskaya has changed. The new prosecutor filed a motion for a repeat linguistic examination of two of her comments. Vertyakhovskaya is accused of defaming Judge Anna Shmeleva over her review of the verdict against StopGOK lawyer Vladimir Kazantsev; she does not admit guilt.
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09:32
The Centre for Combating Extremism paid journalist Vladimir Sevrinovsky 8,000 rubles (approx. US$90) in compensation for his unlawful detention in Makhachkala, a major city in Dagestan, in September 2022. According to Sevrinovsky, he was detained before a protest against mobilisation, forced into a car, had his phone taken away and a bag placed over his head.
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09:17
A 54-year-old resident of Ufa has received an official warning from the Bashkortostan branch of the FSB because, according to the agency, they filled out an application form to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Law enforcement considered their actions to create conditions for committing a crime under the article on state treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code).
06.10.2026
20:53
The Second Western District Military Court has sentenced Dmitry B., a 19-year-old RSUH student, to 19 years in prison in a case concerning the preparation of a terrorist attack at a mosque. According to the investigation, “training for terrorism” included visiting Patriot Park and taking driving lessons; relatives maintain that the young man was tortured and that the charges were made more severe due to pressure on his lawyers and family.
18:24
Mikhail Fetisov told the court that on 1 September, a remand centre officer beat him in his cell, after which he lost consciousness and suffered haematomas. The court forwarded the materials relating to his statement to the Investigative Committee and continued hearing the criminal case on charges of spreading “fake news” about the army and making public calls against state security.
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18:24
The Sverdlovsk District Court in Perm upheld the police’s refusal to open a case against 59.ru journalist Olga Yakuncheva, following a complaint by a relative of serviceman Ivan Yaseryev over the publication of his name and photographs. The court noted that information about Yaseryev had already appeared in other media outlets and that there was clear public interest in the issue.
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17:37
The Khoroshyovsky District Court in Moscow has received a criminal case against economic commentator Boris Grozovsky, who is accused of participating in the activities of an “undesirable” organisation, the name of which has not been disclosed. Grozovsky had previously been fined under protocols relating to connections with an “undesirable” organisation and for failing to comply with requirements for “foreign agents.”
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17:37
Lev Shlosberg and his lawyers have filed appeals against the sentence of 11 years and 1 month in a penal colony on charges of “discrediting the army” and spreading “false information about the army.” According to the defence, the verdict was based on procedural violations, lack of evidence for the charges, and judicial bias.