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21.10.2026
09:10
On 21 October, the Central District Court of Kemerovo placed in custody a man and a woman from Topki, accused of sabotage. According to investigators, the woman conspired via a messenger app with an unidentified individual and involved the man in organising acts of sabotage in exchange for payment.
08:55
Valery Kachin, a scientist convicted of “treason,” has announced a dry hunger strike in Detention Centre No. 1 in Udmurtia, stating that he has been physically abused by detention centre staff. According to Kachin, he is in an emaciated state and weighs 60 kilogrammes at a height of 182 cm.
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08:17
The Cherepovets City Court handed down suspended sentences to two city residents, aged 32 and 18, in a case concerning the repeated display of banned symbols online (Part 1, Article 282.4 of the Russian Criminal Code). According to the court, the men posted images and videos featuring Nazi symbols and the symbols of extremist organisations on their social media pages and channels.
04:38
In Khabarovsk, a major city in Russia’s Far East, a criminal case has been opened against a 35-year-old man under the article on financing extremist activity (Part 1, Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code) for transferring money to an account linked to an organisation recognised as extremist. The man is currently under a travel restriction order.
01:09
On 12 September 2026, the Nalchik City Court fined Diana Indreeva two thousand roubles (about US$22) under the article on mass distribution of extremist materials (Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offences). The case was triggered by the sale of banned religious literature; the court ruled that the book should be confiscated and destroyed.
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00:25
On 2 October, the Gorodets District Court in Nizhny Novgorod Region fined Ivan Khakhulin 10,000 roubles (approx. US$110) under the article on inciting hatred or enmity (Article 20.3.1 of the Administrative Code). The case was prompted by a post on VKontakte containing a video and text which, in the court’s opinion, used a derogatory term for citizens of Russia.
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20.10.2026
22:18
Donald Trump has asked Putin to release the American citizen Stefan Hubbard, who was sentenced in Russia to 6 years and 10 months in a penal colony on charges of mercenarism. According to the investigation, Hubbard had been living in Ukraine, took part in the territorial defence forces, and admitted guilt in court.
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20:39
The Vologda Regional Court has sentenced in absentia the founder of the 'Immortal Barrack' project, Andrey Shalaev, to one year in an open prison colony for a post about the great-grandfather of Governor Georgy Filimonov, who was an NKVD officer. The case was initiated following a complaint from the governor’s mother, and the publication mentioned the great-grandfather’s role in the operation to deport Chechens and Ingush, as well as his work in the NKVD, MGB, and KGB.
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20:38
The 2nd Western District Military Court has sentenced 27-year-old Aleksandr Maslov from Nizhny Tagil, a major city in the Urals, to 13 years in prison on charges of attempted high treason and involvement in a terrorist organisation. According to investigators, Maslov attempted to join the “Russian Volunteer Corps” and twice tried to travel to Ukraine. He was detained on 18 September 2025 at Vnukovo airport.
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19:53
David Fedorov, a 19-year-old resident of Cheboksary—a regional city on the Volga River—was killed in the war in Ukraine after he was forcibly made to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defence in May. According to his mother, he was detained in the street, beaten, and then sent to the front, where he died in July.
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19:22
The court sentenced Nina Tseluyko to 16 years in prison and a fine of 500,000 roubles (around US$5,600), and Marina Zdor to 8 years and a fine of 300,000 roubles (around US$3,400) in a case concerning the preparation of terrorist attacks in Mikhailovka, Zaporizhzhia region. According to investigators, from February to June 2024, they took part in a terrorist organisation and gathered information about Russian military personnel, and also attempted to transfer explosives for the manufacture of explosive devices.
15:55
On 19 October, a court in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a city in Russia’s Far East, fined rally organiser Suzanna Aboeva 10,000 roubles (about US$100) for violating the regulations for holding a public event (part 1, article 20.2 of the Administrative Offences Code). After the rally, an officer from the Centre “E” called another participant, Irina Salyakhova, and invited her for a conversation.
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15:51
The Nagatinsky District Court in Moscow has received a criminal case concerning the dissemination of military “fake news” against Nikolay Levshits, the author of a Telegram channel about life in Georgia. Levshits was previously arrested in absentia and added to Rosfinmonitoring’s register of “terrorists and extremists.”
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15:48
The Supreme Court of Russia has upheld the sentence of Ukrainian national Lyubashenko, who was previously found guilty of spreading knowingly false information about the actions of the Russian army and participating in the activities of a terrorist organisation. The court deemed the 12-year prison sentence to be lawful and rejected the cassation appeal.
15:47
The owner of a Moscow memorabilia shop, Dmitry S., has been sentenced to 10 days’ arrest for selling patches featuring the banned “Black Sun” symbol. A report was filed under the article on distributing extremist materials (Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offences).
15:27
In Khabarovsk, a large city in Russia’s Far East, direct mayoral elections have been abolished—now the head of the city will be selected by deputies upon the recommendation of the regional governor. Before the changes, Khabarovsk was one of three major Russian cities with direct mayoral elections; now only Abakan, a city in southern Siberia, and Anadyr, in the far north-east, continue to hold them.
15:22
Relatives and friends of the defendants in the “fifth Bakhchisaray group” case related to Hizb ut-Tahrir were held for more than 12 hours on the Crimean Bridge overnight from 19 to 20 October, their passports were confiscated and they were searched. According to the wife of one of the accused, a pregnant woman and elderly people were among those detained; there is no official information from the authorities.
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14:31
The administration of Perm did not allow defenders of Trudovye Reservy to hold a rally outside the Iskra cinema near the stadium and suggested they hold the event in the Kirovsky district instead. Activists called this decision unlawful and appealed to the prosecutor’s office, continuing to stage solo pickets in the city centre.
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14:28
The St Petersburg City Court has overturned the decision to close the criminal case against poet Glykeria Ulunova and has sent it back for reconsideration. Ulunova is accused under the article on “organising activities aimed at inciting suicide” because of the poem “Five Thousand Ideas for a Destructive Date.”
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12:22
The Vologda Regional Court sentenced a 36-year-old native of Gorky in absentia to one year in an open prison under charges of rehabilitating Nazism (part 4 of article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) over a post on VKontakte at the end of 2024. The man has also been banned for three years from administering websites and publishing materials online.