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18.10.2026
15:14
A magistrate’s court in the Tagansky district has fined Mikhail Khodorkovsky 50,000 roubles (approximately US$560) under the article on abuse of the freedom of mass information (part 9, article 13.14 of the Code of Administrative Offences). The reason was his publications on the Substack platform about Russian military losses which, according to Roskomnadzor, “create a sense of catastrophe” and place moral pressure on service personnel.
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13:58
In Moscow, 19-year-old Yana was detained on Red Square because of a badge with the inscription “This will definitely pass.” Police confiscated her belongings and took her to the “Kitay-gorod” and “Arbat” police stations. According to an initiative group, the young woman was held for several hours, pressured, threatened with administrative charges, and attempts were made to coerce her into signing consent for a search.
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10:56
Remand centre No. 2 in Rybinsk refused to accept a care package for Denis Popov, explaining this by his status as a “transit detainee”—although they did not clarify the grounds for this status. According to Popov’s wife, he is being held in the detention centre following the verdict handed down by the Second Western District Military Court on 8 September 2026, which is currently being appealed.
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10:06
In Donetsk, TikToker and musician Ivan Zolo was detained during a concert over a 2022 video in which he was wearing a T-shirt with prohibited symbols. According to Zolo, he filmed the video by accident and did not know the meaning of the symbols.
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17.10.2026
22:22
Police checked the documents of participants in a protest outside the Voronezh Region government building in Voronezh, a large city in southwestern Russia. People were demonstrating against pressure from developers and forced relocation to the outskirts.
20:10
The Kalininsky District Court in St Petersburg has sent a 16-year-old teenager to a pre-trial detention centre. He stands accused of assisting terrorism following correspondence with FSB officers who had posed as representatives of the Russian Volunteer Corps. According to investigators, the young person was offered money to transport weapons. He did not admit guilt and asked to be released under house arrest.
17:53
The court fined activist Tatyana Shandroha 1,000 roubles (approximately US$11) under the article on displaying prohibited symbols (Article 20.3 of the Administrative Offences Code). The reason for the fine was a post featuring a FBK video which she published in 2016.
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16:59
In Moscow, 27-year-old mathematician Semyon Krasotkin has been charged with treason for sending paid reactions—“stars”—to a Ukrainian Telegram channel which, according to investigators, was raising funds for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Krasotkin was detained on 17 August at Domodedovo airport, and on 19 September, the court remanded him in custody.
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14:01
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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16.10.2026
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.