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03.09.2026
14:16
The European Court of Human Rights has stopped considering 879 complaints against Russia, including seven claims over “7×7” fines. The only exceptions are cases connected to Russia’s involvement in the armed conflicts in Ukraine and Georgia.
14:11
A court in Pyt-Yakh, a small town in Western Siberia, fined a local resident 40,000 rubles (approximately US$440) for a comment in a messenger chat which, according to the court, discredited the Russian Armed Forces. The man admitted guilt and expressed remorse.
13:23
The Basmanny Court in Moscow has extended the detention of blogger Ilya Remeslo in a case concerning military “fakes” until 10 October. Remeslo does not admit guilt and claims he was exercising his right to freedom of speech.
13:14
The Second Court of Cassation has taken off the agenda the defence’s appeal against the five-year prison sentence given to Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of Golos, and returned the case to Moscow’s Basmanny District Court to address obstacles to its review. According to the defence, Melkonyants was not given access to the case materials or the audio recording of the proceedings.
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SOTAvision
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12:20
Viktor Litovchenko, the creator of the Ukrainian YouTube channel “Vata TV,” and Ukrainian national Nataliya Prushynska were named as defendants in a case to recognise the owners of the Artemovsk-based “Ventprom” factory as an extremist group, despite neither of them having been shareholders in the enterprise. The case also involves Google, and the decision of the Leninsky District Court in Yekaterinburg to nationalise the factory was enforced immediately.
12:15
In the Belgorod region, a young man has been detained on charges of inciting violence and supporting the terrorist organisation 'Russian Volunteer Corps'. Criminal cases have been opened against him under articles on incitement to extremism (Part 2, Article 280 of the Criminal Code) and justification of terrorism (Part 2, Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code).
11:34
The TV channel Rossiya 24 in Novgorod region did not broadcast the debates featuring Yabloko candidate Viktor Shalyakin; instead, the Eastern Economic Forum with Putin was aired. The party reported that Shalyakin’s address is promised to be shown on 11 September.
11:29
The Koryazhma City Court has sentenced a 17-year-old resident of Koryazhma to 120 hours of compulsory community service in a case concerning the public display of Nazi symbols (Part 1, Article 282.4 of the Criminal Code). According to the investigation, in January 2026 the young person posted prohibited symbols in a messenger app; they had previously faced charges for similar actions.
11:29
In annexed Crimea, FSB officers have detained a Russian citizen born in 1992 who is suspected of planning a terrorist attack at a Ministry of Defence medical facility in Simferopol, the regional capital. According to the FSB, the man was recruited by a Ukrainian intelligence officer. He is accused of state treason, preparing a terrorist attack and the illegal possession of explosives. The court has remanded him in pre-trial detention.
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Медиазона
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10:44
A hearing will be held at the Simonovsky District Court in Moscow to decide whether the head of the “House with a Lighthouse” foundation, Lidiya Moniava, will be remanded in custody. The day before, she was charged under Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code for spreading knowingly false information about the army, an offence that carries a sentence of up to ten years in prison.
10:30
The commander of the “Barsy” aerobatics team, Ivan Barsov, has said that he has filed police reports against officials and candidates from one of the political parties for including links to banned social media on their accounts. Earlier, Barsov himself became the subject of administrative proceedings for linking to Instagram, and his father, deputy Yevgeny Barsov, was detained—reportedly for a similar reason.
09:52
Igor Khomechko, a candidate for the State Duma from the Yabloko party, has submitted a complaint to the Murmansk electoral commission after his campaign video was removed from broadcast by GTRK Murman. The commission has accepted the complaint and promised to review it within five days.
09:44
The Armenian authorities have refused to extradite SOTA journalist Ilya Danilov to Russia and have allowed him to return to Georgia. Danilov was detained in Armenia on 1 August at the request of Russia, where he is accused of involvement in the activities of an “extremist organisation” and spreading military “fake news.”
09:33
In Severouralsk, a city in the Urals, a criminal case has been opened against Oleg Neprin, a former inspector of the Denezhkin Kamen nature reserve, for participating in the activities of a terrorist organisation (Part 2, Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code) and for justifying terrorism (Part 1, Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). Neprin is currently in a remand prison; the grounds for the case and the organisation he is accused of involvement with are unknown.
08:32
Authorities are attempting to send 28-year-old conscript Emil Zh. from Abakan, a major city in southern Siberia, to an assault unit, citing a contract which, according to his family, he never signed. His family arranged an expert examination which confirmed the signature was forged, but despite assurances that Emil would be discharged, he continues to be held at his unit.
07:43
The police in Kyzyl identified a publication indicating the organisation of an unauthorised gathering of citizens, and established that it had been posted by a 59-year-old resident of Turan. The woman was issued an official warning regarding the inadmissibility of such actions and was given a preventive talk.
02.09.2026
22:58
A court in the Tula region has fined a 26-year-old resident of Shchyokinsky district under Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Offences Code for posting a video in a messenger app with the slogan “glory to Ukraine.” According to law enforcement, the man expressed remorse and recorded an amended video.
20:51
Artyom Zhamkachiev was found guilty of financing extremism and fined 400,000 roubles (approximately US$4,400) for donations to the Anti-Corruption Foundation. On 13 August, the Astrakhan Regional Court, in the city of Astrakhan in southern Russia, upheld the sentence against the athlete. News of his prosecution first became known on 26 March.
20:50
On 28 August, the 2nd Western District Military Court began hearing the criminal case against Ivan Zhdanov, the former head of the Anti-Corruption Foundation. According to investigators, Zhdanov faces charges under ten articles of the Criminal Code with 51 episodes, including financing extremism, creating extremist and terrorist groups, fraud, vandalism, and spreading fake news about the army.
20:50
On 18 June, the Krasnogvardeisky District Court in Orenburg region fined Rasilya Daminova 1,000 roubles (about US$11) for distributing extremist materials (under Article 20.29 of the Administrative Offences Code). The case was triggered by the discovery of two books in a local mosque, but their titles were not specified in the court decision.