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07.09.2026
18:04
In Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals, masked individuals confiscated phones from Konstantin Kiselev and Alexander Kudelkin, candidates from the Yabloko party, during their detention. According to Kudelkin, his phone was out of sight for almost 40 minutes, and the police stated they did not know who the person was.
18:01
Sergey Evstigneyev from the Moscow region is being transferred to the Matrosskaya Tishina detention centre as he awaits trial on charges of facilitating terrorist activity, due to a donation he made to “Artpodgotovka.” According to human rights defender Gennady Makarov, Evstigneyev is a group II disabled person; his health has deteriorated in the remand centre and he is not receiving the necessary treatment.
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17:14
The electoral commission of Ulyanovsk Region cancelled the registration of Yabloko candidate Evgeny Skripkin on 7 September following his own request; the party reported that he withdrew due to pressure. Another Yabloko candidate, Ivan Telyatyev, withdrew from the elections in Mari El, a Russian republic on the Volga, on 31 August, also citing pressure.
17:14
On 7 September, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree establishing an interdepartmental commission to oversee the application of restrictive measures against Russian citizens who are abroad and have been sentenced in absentia to administrative or criminal penalties. Such individuals will be unable to obtain new international passports, use accounts or property in Russia, or carry out notarial and banking transactions.
16:45
Daria Yegereva, who is being held in pre-trial detention on charges of participating in the activities of the ‘Aborigen Forum,’ has been nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. Her candidacy was put forward by former UN Special Rapporteur James Anaya and Professor Øyvind Ravna of the Arctic University of Norway.
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16:26
The Kherson Regional Court has sentenced Vladimir Gulchak from the town of Chaplynka to 16 years in a high-security prison and fined him 350,000 rubles (approximately US$3,800) on charges of state treason. According to the prosecution, in September 2023 he provided Ukrainian intelligence with information on the whereabouts of Russian troops in the occupied Chaplynka district.
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Медиазона
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16:07
In Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals, Yabloko candidate Aleksandr Kudelkine has been detained and is being taken to the police station. He is already the fourth Yabloko candidate to be detained in the city on 7 September.
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16:01
In Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals, Yabloko party candidates Shana Ogney and Vladimir Sobyanin have been detained. Ogney is accused of displaying prohibited symbols because of a drawing featuring a pentagram posted on the social network X, while the reasons for Sobyanin’s detention have not been disclosed.
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15:56
In Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals, three more Yabloko party candidates—Aleksandr Kudëlkin, Shanu Ogney and Vladimir Sobyanin—have been detained. They are accused of displaying banned symbols on social media, which could result in their removal from the elections.
15:45
Andrey Balin, who was sentenced to seven years in prison under the “fake news” case about the army, has been held in a punishment cell for more than 130 consecutive days, his relatives have reported. According to them, he is not being given medical examinations and is not being told the reasons for the extension of his time in solitary confinement.
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14:40
A report was drawn up against Yekaterinburg city council deputy and Yabloko State Duma candidate Konstantin Kiselev for displaying extremist organisation symbols due to posts made on VKontakte between 2019 and 2021. He was released from the police station pending the court hearing, which is scheduled for 8 September.
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14:22
The Golovinsky Court in Moscow has sentenced 46-year-old “Pyaterochka” employee Elena Albegova to three years in a penal colony for transferring 1,000 rubles (approximately US$10) to FBK in August 2021. This is the second known case in Russia where a woman has been sent to a penal colony for donating to FBK.
14:08
Konstantin Kiselev, the Yabloko candidate for the State Duma, was detained on the morning of 7 September, and a report was drawn up against him under the article on displaying prohibited symbols (Article 20.3 of the Russian Code of Administrative Offences). Previously, two other Yabloko candidates in Moscow, Anna Shatunovskaya-Burno and Grigory Grishin, received similar reports.
13:42
The Kyiv District Court in Simferopol has fined a local woman 30,000 roubles (about US$330) under the article on “discrediting” the army for a comment in a Telegram channel chat, in which she expressed sympathy for a Ukrainian soldier who had died. According to the court, the woman publicly supported the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and expressed a negative attitude towards the Russian army; she admitted her guilt.
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13:06
A criminal case has been opened against YouTube blogger Anatoly Deev (“Wise Raven”) from Verkhnyaya Pyshma, a town near Yekaterinburg in the Urals, for desecration of symbols of military glory and outraging the Russian flag. According to him, during his arrest, law enforcement officers beat him, tore up a portrait of Stalin and attempted to set fire to a printout of a Soviet law.
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12:25
Yekaterinburg city council deputy Konstantin Kiselev was detained as he left his house on his way to a pre-election debate on the Rossiya 1 television channel. The reason for his detention is unknown; the Yabloko party suggests it may be connected to an administrative offence case.
11:42
The Central Election Commission has annulled the registration of Nikolai Bondarenko, who was nominated by the Communist Party (KPRF) to run in the State Duma elections from Udmurtia and Perm Krai. According to the commission, the reason was his recent administrative penalty for displaying prohibited symbols (Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences).
11:42
In Moscow on 5 September, street musicians from Roman Zapolsky’s band (Roma Smile) were detained while performing the Russian national anthem in Yuzhnoye Butovo, a district in the south of the city. According to Zapolsky, the police cited the law on public rallies, used force, and took the performers to the station, but released them an hour and a half later without filing a report.
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11:07
Aleksandr Skobov, who is serving a sentence in Lipetsk Prison No. 2, has again faced administrative charges under the article on displaying banned symbols (Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences). The case files were submitted to the Yelets court (a town near Lipetsk) at the end of August; details of the charges are unknown.
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10:48
In Arkhangelsk, a city in northern Russia, a criminal case has been opened against a 35-year-old local resident under the article on public justification of terrorism on the internet (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, in 2026 he posted messages in a messenger app supporting and justifying terrorist activities; the man has been remanded in custody.