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11.09.2026
10:45
On 11 September, the Chelyabinsk Regional Court revoked the registration of Oksana Boyarskaya as a State Duma candidate—she is the fourth out of five Yabloko single-mandate candidates in the region to be removed from the election following lawsuits by rivals from the Greens. The only remaining registered Yabloko candidate is lawyer Sergei Faryma; the court will also consider terminating his candidacy on 11 September.
10:15
The owner of an esoteric shop in Zelenograd, Tatyana P., has been fined under the article on the distribution of extremist materials (Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offences) because of a photo of a pendant bearing a symbol that experts said resembled the Nazi “Black Sun.” The listing was removed, and the shop now operates only online—the physical shop has already been closed.
10:15
Irina Levchenko, a 64-year-old journalist from Ukraine, told the court that in 2023 she and Viktoriia Roshchyna were held and tortured in a secret FSB prison in Melitopol, a city in southern Ukraine. According to Levchenko, detainees were beaten by agency staff, and a former psychiatric and neurological clinic was used as a place to hold people.
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09:39
The Green Party candidate Semyon Kuleshov has filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of Komi, demanding the disqualification of the Communist Party’s Oleg Mikhailov from the State Duma elections over a video recorded against the backdrop of a Wildberries sign. The same court is also considering lawsuits filed by Mikhailov himself seeking to disqualify Alexey Potyomkin and Tatyana Krivoshchekova, candidates from New People and the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR).
09:30
In the Volgograd region, a criminal case has been opened against two local residents under the article regarding insulting the memory of the defenders of the Fatherland (part 4 of article 354.1 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, they filmed and posted a video on social media from the site of a mass grave of soldiers from the 62nd Army, after which searches were conducted at their homes on 10 September and they were taken to the investigative department.
10.09.2026
23:16
The Mytishchi City Court has placed a woman from the Moscow region in a pre-trial detention centre on charges of financing terrorism. According to investigators, the woman transferred money to the “Artpodgotovka” movement, which the authorities consider a terrorist organisation.
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22:35
The Naro-Fominsk City Court fined SOVA Centre expert Olga Sibiryeva 15,000 roubles (approximately US$160) under charges of participating in the activities of an “undesirable” organisation. The case was prompted by her alleged ties to the International Alliance for Religious Freedom (IARF); representatives of the centre stated that no such connection existed.
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21:05
The Kursk Regional Court upheld a fine of 30,000 roubles (approximately US$330) against activist and A Just Russia regional parliament candidate Vladimir Sinelnikov, under a charge of disrespecting the authorities. The reason was a VKontakte post featuring a photograph of Putin and a quote from Prigozhin, which was deemed offensive.
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18:33
The Supreme Court of Chuvashia has cancelled the registration of both Yabloko candidates in the State Duma elections following complaints from representatives of other parties. The claimants cited the deregistration of Yabloko’s federal list, possible foreign funding, social media posts and other concerns.
18:17
The Prosecutor General’s Office has declared 15 new organisations “undesirable,” including the British NGO Institute for War & Peace Reporting, its subsidiaries, and the CABAR.asia project in Central Asia. The register now also includes projects and foundations from Norway, Ukraine, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and the United States, all of which are involved in supporting Ukraine, documenting war crimes, and collecting humanitarian aid.
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18:17
Five residents of Volgograd, who recorded a video address to Alexander Bastrykin on 16 July about the petrol shortage, were detained at a petrol station and face administrative charges. Four of the participants were given detention sentences and fined between 10,000 and 20,000 rubles (US$110–220), while the case against the fifth activist, Marina Arkhipova, has not yet been considered.
17:57
On 10 September, the Volgograd Regional Court held a closed hearing in the case of political analyst and journalist Mikhail Serenko, who is accused under several articles, including extortion, rehabilitation of Nazism, defamation, and public display of pornography. According to lawyer Kristina Serebryakova, the session concluded with the reading of the charges; the next stage, scheduled for 17 September, will be the questioning of the alleged victims.
17:57
A court in the Cheboksary District fined 57-year-old Luiza Shogulina 1,000 roubles (US$11) for including a link to Instagram in her VKontakte profile. The court ruled that this constituted the display of banned symbols.
17:57
The Leninsky District Court in Astrakhan, a city on the Volga River in southern Russia, has fined a tarot reader 1,000 roubles (about US$11) for displaying “extremist” symbols. According to the court, the reason was photos and videos featuring a pentagram and an image of Baphomet posted on VKontakte, as well as items bearing these symbols that were seized from the Astrakhan resident.
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17:57
In Crimea, the investigation has been completed in the case against a 48-year-old resident of Feodosia, a town on the Crimean Peninsula, who is accused of insulting the feelings of believers (Part 1, Article 148 of the Criminal Code) because of social media posts made from March 2025 to June 2026. According to the investigation, the man posted statements that, in the view of law enforcement, offended the religious feelings of believers.
17:56
The Basmanny District Court in Moscow has extended the detention of Darya Yegeryeva, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and three other defendants in the case concerning alleged involvement with the “Forum of Free States of Post-Russia” until 9 December 2026. The hearing was held behind closed doors, with relatives and diplomats removed from the courtroom.
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17:56
The Meshchansky District Court in Moscow has closed the hearing to the public in the case of Oleg Deripaska against journalists from Verstka, Important Stories, and the company Google. Deripaska is demanding retractions of publications regarding his alleged involvement in a network that, according to investigative reports, introduced schoolgirls to influential men.
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17:56
The Gulkevichsky District Court has sentenced Tatyana Khodokova to a three-year suspended sentence under the article on activities of “undesirable organisations” (part 2 of Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code) for financially supporting two religious associations registered in Ukraine. According to the court, from December 2022 to February 2023, she transferred 34,395 rubles (approx. US$380) to them.
17:56
The Kirovsky District Court of Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals, heard the case of Vladimir Sobyanin, a candidate for deputy from the Yabloko party, who was accused of displaying extremist symbols. He and five other candidates were detained on 7 September and taken to Police Station No. 9.
17:29
The Basmanny Court in Moscow has begun to consider in absentia the case against Michael Naki for alleged calls against Russia’s security—the grounds for this were a video from 7 May 2024 about Putin’s fifth inauguration. According to the prosecution, the video contains calls to overthrow the authorities and expresses negative views on the use of the Russian army.