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17:37
A court in Perm upheld the city administration’s refusal to approve a rally in support of teenagers, including Arseny Turbin. The administration denied the organisers' request three times, citing the wording of the protest’s aims and the mention of Turbin, who is listed by Rosfinmonitoring as an “extremist and terrorist.”
16:40
On 3 September, Darya Bunkova and Nabi Balabekov left Russia after being arrested for a protest outside the Supreme Court. According to the activists, they were beaten by police and pressured to cooperate. Both were charged with “participation in a picket that resulted in road blockage.”
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15:37
Evgeny Barsov, a deputy from Surgut, has received a summons to court in a case of disobeying the police (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences). According to Barsov, police officers detained him on 20 August without explanation. His assistant suggested the reason for the detention could have been links to Meta accounts on his social media.
15:00
The Achkhoi-Martanovsky District Court in Chechnya has fined a 22-year-old local resident under the article on searching for prohibited materials (Article 13.53 of the Administrative Code). The decision was issued on 3 September; details of the case and the amount of the fine have not been disclosed.
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14:52
The Moscow Regional Court has disqualified Yuri Vaskin, the Yabloko candidate, from the elections in Odintsovo District No. 124 because his campaign leaflet included QR codes linking to party online resources. The lawsuit was filed by Dmitry Shatalov, a candidate from the Party of Pensioners, who pointed out that these online communities featured posts that had been ruled by the court as copyright violations.
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14:32
On 8 September, the Yaroslavl Regional Court sentenced 48-year-old Nikolai Shcherbakov to 14 years in a high-security prison on charges of state treason. According to the prosecution, since October 2024 he had been filming the graves of military personnel in a cemetery and passing the information to representatives of the Ukrainian security services via a messaging app.
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14:24
In Crimea, security forces have detained a man on charges of making public calls for terrorism (Part 2, Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, he published a video on YouTube calling for the destruction of the Crimean Bridge.
14:23
The prosecutor has asked the court to give activist Ivan Merezhnikov from Votkinsk—a city in the Udmurt Republic—a suspended sentence of two years and four months over charges of unlawful use of personal data and defamation. According to the investigation, the cases were initiated following complaints from the city’s mayor, Alexei Zametaev, and his daughter.
14:23
At the Rybinsk court, Denis Popov gave his closing statement—he said he had been isolated from his loved ones and that the case against him had been fabricated. According to his lawyer, Popov was offered a mobile phone in the penal colony, after which he was accused of writing terrorist texts, and Popov himself spoke about being transferred to a punishment cell and to the medical unit.
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14:21
The Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court has cancelled the registration of Yabloko candidate Dmitry Smirnov for the State Duma elections, following a lawsuit filed by Party of Pensioners candidate Alexey Rizovatov. The suit related to a photo of Lemmy Kilmister that Smirnov published on VKontakte in 2015. On 8 September, a court in Chelyabinsk, a major city in Russia’s Urals, also removed Yaroslav Shcherbakov, chair of Chelyabinsk’s Yabloko branch, from the election. Earlier on 31 August, three other candidates from the party were also struck off the ballot.
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13:46
The Petrogradsky District Court fined entrepreneur Fidel Chogin 40,000 rubles (approx. US$440) under the article on “discrediting the army” (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code), and an additional 2,000 rubles (approx. US$22) for displaying banned symbols (Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code). The proceedings were prompted by a logo on Chogin’s company website featuring an inverted letter Z.
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13:26
A further 9 years in prison has been requested for Denis Popov over comments on YouTube, which investigators allege he posted from a penal colony. The lawyer stated that the court refused to investigate the details of his phone usage and did not request the results of the internal inquiry.
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13:20
In Barnaul, a major city in Siberia, the investigation has been completed in the case against a 43-year-old local resident accused of promoting terrorism online (Part 2, Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, the man allegedly posted comments under news stories in a messenger app aimed at spreading terrorist ideology; the case has been sent to court.
13:06
The Tagansky District Court in Moscow has fined Booking 6 million roubles (approx. US$65,000) for “LGBT propaganda” over a message sent to hotels for pride month, which, according to Roskomnadzor, was not removed in a timely manner. The court also issued fines of 3.5 million roubles each (approx. US$38,000) to Pinterest, Twitch and TikTok for refusing to monitor prohibited content.
11:53
On 8 September, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court refused to grant early release on parole to Yaroslav Shirshikov, who was convicted over a social media post. The refusal was due to disciplinary penalties imposed on him in the penal colony, which Shirshikov disputes and has appealed.
11:48
The Moscow City Court upheld the prosecutor’s refusal to review the case of Alexey Gorinov, despite a decision by a UN working group which found 11 violations in the case and declared his arrest arbitrary. Gorinov took part in the hearing by video link from the penal colony and reported signs of poisoning, but the court denied his request for medical assistance.
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10:58
A resident of Severodvinsk, a city in the north of Russia, has been arrested on charges of financing terrorism (Article 205.1, Part 1.1 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, they transferred money to an organisation that has been designated as extremist and banned in Russia by a court.
10:48
The Chelyabinsk Regional Court has removed Yaroslav Shcherbakov, a Yabloko candidate, from the State Duma elections following a lawsuit by Artyom Kungurtsev of the Green Party. According to the claimant, the reason was allegedly illegal campaigning and copyright violations, including the use of works by Banksy, an image of Andrei Sakharov, and words attributed to Andrei Gromyko.
10:29
In the Kurgan region, the FSB and the National Guard special forces detained a resident of the Lebyazhyevsky district on suspicion of publicly justifying terrorism. According to the investigation, the man posted comments on social media in which he justified the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ attacks on Voronezh and the terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge, as well as criticising the special military operation.
09:18
Public sector workers in Zmeinogorsk and the village of Pospelikha in Altai Krai told Communist Party (KPRF) deputies that they were being forced to register for the remote electronic voting system in the elections, under threat of losing their bonuses and facing “problems at work.” According to Russia’s Ministry of Digital Development, by the end of August, 187,000 residents of Altai Krai had applied to take part in remote electronic voting.