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15.09.2026
23:49
The Supreme Court has reinstated three A Just Russia party candidates—Artyom Khamitov, Alexandra Smolina and Dmitry Roginkin—in the St Petersburg legislative assembly elections. The court refused to reinstate other candidates and returned a complaint concerning the candidate list for the Avtovo municipal district without consideration.
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21:24
An anonymous report was filed against Igor Basov, former head of the PARNAS branch in Omsk and candidate from the Party of Elders, alleging that he was running a drug den. Basov was summoned by the police and he, in turn, filed a complaint about a false accusation.
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SOTAvision
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21:00
In Cheboksary, a city on the Volga River, unknown individuals cut out the image of United Russia candidate Sergey Seregin’s face from a campaigning cube. Previously, his main rival in the same district, Lyubov Samukova of the New People party, was removed from the election due to an administrative fine.
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RusNews
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19:39
In the Rostov region, two criminal cases have been opened against a 48-year-old man under articles on public justification of terrorism and incitement to activities against state security, due to online publications. The court has placed him in custody.
18:17
Several members of precinct electoral commissions representing Yabloko in the Krasnogvardeysky district of St Petersburg have received draft summons via the Gosuslugi portal, demanding that they report to the military enlistment office on Friday, the day polling stations open. According to Pavel Shapchits, all of them serve on commissions overseen by District Electoral Commission No. 44.
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18:08
The Moscow Ministry of Internal Affairs has put Skoltech junior researcher Daniil Merkulov on a wanted list. He is accused under the article on financing extremist activity (Part 1, Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). In August, the Savyolovsky District Court suspended the case, as Merkulov failed to attend several hearings.
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Медиазона
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17:49
The territorial electoral commissions of the Central District of Moscow have refused to admit around 100 observers appointed by Yabloko candidate Sergei Mitrokhin to the elections. According to the party, the commissions violated procedure and deprived the candidate of the opportunity to send observers to the polling stations.
17:49
A criminal case has been opened in Arkhangelsk Region against a 52-year-old resident of Naryan-Mar, under the article on public calls for extremist activity online (Part 2, Article 280 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, the man posted statements on social media calling for violence against a specific group of people.
17:49
The Court of Cassation in Nizhny Novgorod upheld the decisions to remove Yabloko party candidates Vladislav Arkadyev and Viktor Stenshin from the State Duma elections in Chuvashia. The Moscow District Court in Cheboksary, the capital of the Chuvash Republic, returned to the police the protocol regarding Arkadyev on displaying prohibited symbols.
17:41
Dmitry Khorzov and David Zudin, candidates from St Petersburg’s Yabloko party, have reported difficulties in deploying observers to polling stations. According to the party, a number of local electoral commissions have had problems accepting and processing documents, and Yabloko chair Nikolai Rybakov has submitted an appeal to the Central Election Commission.
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ЗАКС.Ру
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17:23
Ivan Lyubshin reported that he discovered torn pages in his passport after a new criminal case was opened against him for attempting to leave Russia. According to Lyubshin, Russian border guards and police officers damaged his passport to prevent him from leaving the country.
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RusNews
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17:21
In Belgorod region, criminal cases have been initiated against a 15-year-old and an 18-year-old under the article for failure to report a crime (Article 205.6 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, in February 2025, they did not inform the police about an arson attack on transport infrastructure carried out by their peers in Stary Oskol—a town in western Russia.
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ЗМСУТ СК РФ
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16:31
The Southern District Military Court has sentenced a resident of Krasnodar Krai to five years in a penal colony on charges of publicly justifying terrorism online (part 2, article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). According to the court, they posted a message justifying terrorism under a report about Darya Trepova and the attack in a café in St Petersburg.
16:30
The Kherson Regional Court has sentenced 43-year-old Ukrainian citizen Serhii Chekhovskyi to 18 years in a high-security penal colony and fined him 400,000 roubles (approximately US$4,400) on charges of espionage and possession of explosives. According to investigators, from September 2023 to April 2024, Chekhovskyi passed information about Russian troops in Kherson Region to Ukrainian intelligence and stored explosives together with an accomplice, who was previously sentenced to 12 years.
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16:30
The German school at the German Consulate General in St Petersburg has ceased operations, with the final classes taking place on 11 September. The decision is linked to the closure of the consulate’s activities at the request of the Russian authorities.
15:27
A judge of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court upheld a fine against Yabloko party Ekaterinburg councillor Konstantin Kiselev under the article on displaying prohibited symbols (Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code) for posts on VKontakte from 2019–2021. The electoral commission must now remove Kiselev from the list of registered candidates, as the penalty came into force before voting began.
15:06
The Zavodskoy District Court of Kemerovo, a city in southwestern Siberia, fined local resident Artyom K. 20,000 roubles (approx. US$220) for comments on Telegram which, according to the police, contained negative assessments of the president’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov and Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya. He was found guilty on two counts under the article on incitement of hatred or enmity (Art. 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences).
15:05
In the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, a minibus driver has been detained on suspicion of publicly inciting terrorism. According to investigators, he played a video on the bus promoting and justifying the activities of the organisation recognised as terrorist, the “Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.”
15:05
A criminal case has been submitted to the Primorsky District Court of St Petersburg against Alexander and Lidiya Nevzorov. Alexander Nevzorov is accused of repeated violations of foreign agent regulations and financing extremist activities, while Lidiya Nevzorov is accused of financing extremist activities.
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14:14
The Yabloko party has filed a complaint with the Russian Constitutional Court after its federal party list was removed from the State Duma elections. The party is challenging provisions of the electoral legislation and its enforcement, which, in their view, allow candidate lists to be removed on technicalities and run counter to constitutional principles.