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19:42
Alexander Shestun reported that he was urgently hospitalised in the Torzhok Federal Penitentiary Hospital after a hunger strike demanding an end to torture in Tver Remand Centre No. 1 and a visit with his children. According to him, a prosecutor’s representative spent nine and a half hours adding evidence of beatings and torture to the supervisory case files, and the Investigative Committee is conducting five inquiries into a remand centre staff member.
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Vasiliy Kuksov, convicted in the “Network” case, was released from penal colony No. 16 in Nizhny Novgorod Region on 16 October and met with his family in Serdobsk on the morning of 17 October. In 2020, Kuksov was sentenced to nine years in a penal colony on charges of participating in a “terrorist organisation.”
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13:12
An 18-year-old student at the Anzhero-Sudzhensk Polytechnic College in the Kemerovo region (a large industrial area in southwestern Siberia) was expelled after refusing to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defence to serve as a drone operator. According to human rights advocates, the young person was pressured to enter into the contract under threat of expulsion due to academic debts.
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11:42
On 16 October, police detained the Karelian activist Tatyana Shandroha near Petrozavodsk City Hall; the formal reason was a post with a video about corruption dating back ten years. Previously, the Petrozavodsk City Hall, as well as the administrations of Belomorsk and Pitkyaranta, refused activists permission to hold rallies calling for the September elections to be declared invalid, and the court dismissed their legal claims to restore their right to protest.
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09:27
A court in Irkutsk will hear the case against human rights defender and lawyer Vitaly Grigorov, who is accused of threatening violence against an investigator (part 3 of article 296 of the Criminal Code). According to the Investigative Committee, in January and on 10 March 2026, Grigorov allegedly used force against agency staff; he himself had reported being beaten inside the Investigative Department building.
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22:53
On 19 October, the Central District Court of Volgograd will consider an appeal against the decision to open a criminal case against lawyer Roman Melnychenko, who is accused of discrediting the army due to a lecture on the actions of the Russian army and Putin’s decree. Melnychenko is currently at LIU-15, where he is undergoing a medical commission, and has not been transferred to a remand prison.
20:48
On 16 October, Aleksandr Nozdrinov, who is being held in IK-9 in Khadyzhensk (a town in southern Russia), was placed in a punishment cell (SHIZO). According to his relatives, the reason given was that he was wearing the wrong kind of cap, but they believe the real reason is pressure over his filing of a cassation appeal.
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20:20
On 1 October, the Miass City Court fined a local resident 40,000 rubles (approximately US$430) under the law on discrediting the army, due to a video titled ‘The Special Military Operation from the Perspective of Russian Laws’ posted on VKontakte. The man admitted guilt and said he had deleted the video.
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19:42
Alexander Shestun reported that he was urgently hospitalised in the Torzhok Federal Penitentiary Hospital after a hunger strike demanding an end to torture in Tver Remand Centre No. 1 and a visit with his children. According to him, a prosecutor’s representative spent nine and a half hours adding evidence of beatings and torture to the supervisory case files, and the Investigative Committee is conducting five inquiries into a remand centre staff member.
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19:39
The Basmanny District Court in Moscow has ordered the arrest of Elena Krotova, director of a charitable foundation, on charges of organising the activities of a foreign or international organisation deemed “undesirable” (Part 3, Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, from 2021 to 2026, Krotova organised and held meetings of Scientology organisations in Moscow and other cities across Russia.
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19:39
The Basmanny District Court in Moscow has remanded Elena Krotova, the head of the “Protect Children from Drugs and Alcohol” foundation, in pre-trial detention until 15 December 2026. According to the investigation, she organised the activities of an undesirable organisation, using the foundation to recruit people into the Church of Scientology (Part 3, Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code).
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19:38
The Southern District Military Court has delivered its verdict to Ukrainian nationals Igor Garanin and Sergei Yevtushenko, as well as Russian nationals Elena Roy and Sergei Garkusha. The court found them guilty under several articles of the Criminal Code, including organising a terrorist community, preparing an act of terrorism, and the illegal handling of explosives.
19:37
The Magistrate’s Court of the Lenin district of Vladimir has imposed three fines of 30,000 rubles each (US$330) on Ivan Rostovtsev, editor-in-chief of Chesnok, for publishing reports about damage to a residential building following a drone attack. Rostovtsev was found guilty of violating a regional operations headquarters’ ban on disclosing the consequences of such attacks.
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17:29
The Ministry of Justice has required “foreign agents” to submit reports exclusively through the electronic GIS NGO system from 1 October, a system which is prone to errors and frequent outages. 1.1 billion roubles (approx. US$12 million) was spent on developing the system, and its improvement is being handled by a company linked to businessman Anatoly Yablonsky, who is believed to have close ties to the FSB leadership.
17:12
On 16 October, Russia’s Ministry of Justice added the singer Naoko (Diana Loginova) and the musician Alexander Orlov from the group Stoptime to the list of “foreign agents.” According to the ministry, they are accused of speaking out against the special military operation, spreading false information, and interacting with other “foreign agents.” Both are living outside Russia.
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16:27
A draft procedure has been prepared in St Petersburg for the establishment of Hyde Parks—designated areas for collective discussions and mass events. The document provides for the installation at these sites of a podium, toilets, metal detectors, a video surveillance system, and other security measures, with the Centre for Material and Technical Support being appointed as the responsible authority.
15:29
On 25 September, the Supreme Court of Chuvashia partially upheld a lawsuit filed by Alexander Andreev, a State Council deputy from the Communist Party (KPRF), and overturned the ban on holding rallies near shopping centres, markets and residential buildings. The court found these provisions of the republic’s law to be inconsistent with the federal law on rallies.
15:26
In Vladimir, Judge Ekaterina Medvedeva fined the editor-in-chief of the media outlet Chesnok, Ivan Rostovtsev, 30,000 roubles (approximately US$330) for a social media post about a drone crash. According to the police and the court, Rostovtsev allegedly knew about the consequences and intended for them to occur, as he posted a photo from the scene of the incident.
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14:45
RusNews journalist Maria Ponomarenko has reported that she remains in a cell-type facility (PKT) and hopes to be moved to a unit on 22 October. She spoke about the pressure of the detention conditions, her meditation practices and experiencing hallucinations.
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14:27
The 2nd Western District Military Court has sentenced 59-year-old Sergei Evstigneyev from Domodedovo, a town near Moscow, to eight and a half years in prison over donations to the “Artpodgotovka” movement. Evstigneyev was found guilty of financing terrorism (part 1.1 of article 205.1 of the Criminal Code). He will spend two years in prison and the remainder in a high-security penal colony; authorities also confiscated 11,531 rubles (about US$125), his mobile phone, and his computer tower.
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14:04
Alexandr Kynev, who is accused of attempted drug dealing, has been transferred to Moscow’s Detention Centre No. 4, known as “Medved.” According to him, he is still wearing a cast, cannot walk without crutches, and is currently under quarantine.
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