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09.09.2026
18:16
The St Petersburg City Court upheld the fine imposed on Fyodor Gorozhanko under the offence of “discrediting the army” (Part 1, Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code) for reposting a video address by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The court denied the defence’s request to call Schwarzenegger as a witness.
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18:16
The Presnensky District Court of Moscow has arrested Natalya Sindeeva and Mark Ten in absentia, ordering them to be held in custody for two months from the moment of their detention or extradition. They are charged under Part 3 of Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code.
17:27
Shanu Ogney from the Yekaterinburg branch of Yabloko has been fined 2,000 roubles (approximately US$22) for Twitter posts containing an image of a pentagram and the symbols of the Vesna (“Spring”) movement. The decision was made on 9 September by Olga Panfilova, a judge at the Oktyabrsky District Court in Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals region.
16:59
The criminal case against blogger Ilya Remeslo on charges of spreading knowingly false information about the Russian army (Part 2, Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) has been submitted to the Primorsky District Court of St Petersburg. Remeslo was detained on 17 July and remains in custody; he does not admit guilt.
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16:58
A court in Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals, has sentenced Alexander Kudelkine, a Yabloko party candidate for deputy, to 10 days' detention under the article on displaying prohibited symbols (part 1, article 20.3 of the Administrative Code). The reason given was three Facebook posts by Kudelkine containing photos of Hitler and Nazi symbols. The court’s decision will prevent him from participating in the elections.
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16:46
The state prosecutor has requested sentences of 22 and 21 years in prison, respectively, for Gennady and Olga Kapralov from occupied Melitopol, accusing them of preparing a terrorist attack and participating in a terrorist organisation. In court, the Kapralov couple reported torture and violence by law enforcement officers.
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16:38
On 9 September, the Moscow Regional Court removed Sergei Kryzhov, leader of the Moscow Region branch of Yabloko, from the State Duma elections. By this date, the courts had also revoked the registration of eight more party candidates in single-member constituencies. The decisions have not yet entered into legal force and will be appealed.
15:43
The prosecution is seeking an eight-year prison sentence for 61-year-old historian of Russian cuisine, Pavel Syutkin, on charges of spreading “military fakes.” The reason for the prosecution was a post he made in a Telegram channel on 19 April 2022. The verdict is scheduled to be announced on 15 September.
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14:45
The Green Party has appealed to the Krasnodar Regional Court, demanding that the Yabloko candidate Vladimir Atamanchuk be removed from the election because of his campaign leaflet about the “fratricidal conflict with the people of Ukraine.” According to a local journalist, if the court upholds the claim, Atamanchuk will become the only candidate in Krasnodar Krai (a region in southern Russia) to be removed from the election on such grounds.
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14:45
On 9 September, the Moscow City Court rejected the appeal against the extension of the detention of 24-year-old auditor Artyom Minyailo, who was placed in a pretrial detention centre for transferring 750 rubles (US$8) to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK). According to his lawyer, Minyailo developed an infection after his arrest due to a delayed operation, but he is being denied hospitalisation.
13:24
In Krasnodar Krai, security forces have detained a local resident born in 1999 who, according to the FSB, was attempting to leave Russia to join a “Ukrainian paramilitary group” that has been designated a terrorist organisation in Russia. The court has placed the man in a pre-trial detention centre.
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13:24
In Tula, a city south of Moscow, Viktor, known as “Vitya Russky,” has been detained on criminal charges of extremism (Part 1, Article 282 of the Criminal Code). According to law enforcement, he had previously been fined for extremist comments, but now faces up to five years in prison.
12:48
The Supreme Court of Crimea has sentenced a resident of Alushta to 2 years and 6 months in a settlement colony on charges of rehabilitating Nazism. According to the prosecution, the man posted comments on social media which allegedly showed disrespect for the “values of Russian society and contempt for Heroes of the Fatherland Day.”
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11:59
Maxim Kruglov, deputy chair of the Yabloko party who was convicted under the article on “fake news” about the army (Part 2, Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), has been transferred from the Butyrka pre-trial detention centre to the hospital at Detention Centre No. 1 “Matrosskaya Tishina” after his health deteriorated. Doctors diagnosed him with inflammation of two ligaments and signs of their fraying in his right shoulder.
11:27
Yabloko party candidates for the Legislative Assembly of Kaliningrad Region, Roman Morozov and Dmitry Mamaev, have received death threats demanding that they withdraw from the elections. Yabloko considers this to be an attempt at intimidation and has appealed to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to investigate the matter.
11:12
Maxim Petlin, head of the Sverdlovsk branch of the Yabloko party, has left Russia after pressure from law enforcement. Earlier, six candidates from the party were detained in the region, including Yekaterinburg city council deputy Konstantin Kiselev.
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10:59
The Butyrsky District Court in Moscow fined the evangelical Baptist church “Golgotha” 50,000 roubles (US$550) under the article on distributing materials of an undesirable organisation. The court ruled that the church’s library held books published by “Mission Eurasia.”
08:01
The Sverdlovsk Regional Court has received the case of Anatoly Deev from Verkhnyaya Pyshma, who is accused of desecrating the Russian national flag (Article 329 of the Criminal Code) and defiling symbols of military glory (Parts 3 and 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code), including online. Deev was detained on 6 February with the use of force, and was later hospitalised in a psychiatric facility. The prosecution is connected with a video in which he burned a flag bearing the symbols Z, V and a swastika.
08.09.2026
23:05
The Nerekhta District Court in Kostroma region fined Ilya Dzezyulya, a Communist Party (KPRF) member of the Kostroma Regional Duma, 10,000 roubles (approximately US$110) under the article on inciting hatred or hostility (Article 20.3.1 of the Administrative Code). The reason was a comment on VKontakte in which Dzezyulya referred to United Russia as “the party of crooks and thieves.”
23:05
In June 2026, courts in Nizhny Novgorod Region and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area overturned decisions to strip Jehovah’s Witnesses Gevorg Gevorkyan and Igor Petrov of their Russian citizenship. The appeal courts found that citizenship cannot be revoked from those who obtained it by registration in the 1990s.