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20.09.2026
13:02
A teacher at Moscow school No. 1788 spoke about pressure from the management demanding they vote in the elections, and about the school receiving information on staff participation in remote electronic voting. According to her, employees who are not marked as having voted on the lists may be summoned to the headteacher.
12:30
In Pskov, the territorial election commission barred 30 observers representing State Duma candidate Evgeny Vasilyev from entering polling stations, according to the Yabloko party branch. In Velikiye Luki, a city in north-western Russia, the party reports that one of their observers was denied access to records of home voting, while in the Pskov region there are reports of voters being photographed while voting at home.
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12:26
In Chelyabinsk, a major city in the Urals, the secretary of the organisation of the “Rassvet” party Daniil Burtsev has been detained. The circumstances of the detention are unknown.
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12:11
In Ufa, the regional committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) has withdrawn 24 observers from the organisation “Civic Union” from polling stations, citing alleged links with the non-systemic opposition and “foreign agents.” In other regions, there have also been instances of voting taking place outside official premises, for example, on a heating main, on benches, and in the boot of a minibus.
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11:39
In Novosibirsk, a major city in Siberia, police officers detained a local resident outside School No. 56 on Planirovocnhaya Street, where she was holding a placard about the “illusion of choice” near polling station No. 1724. The woman was taken to the police station.
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11:31
In Moscow, the Second Western District Military Court has sentenced Sergey Kostenko to 14 years in prison on charges of participating in the activities of a terrorist organisation and inciting terrorism. According to investigators, Kostenko put up posters inviting people to join the “Atesh” movement, which has been designated as a terrorist organisation in Russia.
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10:55
In Perm, a major city in the Urals, police detained an observer from ‘New People’ at polling station 3104 because they had an unmarked summons from the military recruitment office. At the station, they were questioned and then released.
09:08
Nika Novak, a journalist from Irkutsk Region in Siberia, has been sentenced to four years in prison for cooperating with a foreign organisation on a confidential basis—the first such sentence for a journalist. The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has found her imprisonment to be a violation of international human rights.
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09:08
On the night of 19 September in the Khorinsky district of Buryatia, all four tyres of a car belonging to Communist Party (KPRF) observers were slashed by unknown individuals, according to Leonty Krasovsky, the party’s regional committee secretary. Earlier, a hotel in the district had refused to accommodate a group of observers without providing any explanation.
08:19
In Ufa, police detained two election observers from polling station No. 145 after they refused to leave the premises when requested. The activists, who had been recalled by the Communist Party (CPRF), were taken to the police station.
00:12
The members of local electoral commission no. 607 were taken to the 31st police station after the head of the Avtovo municipality, Ilya Shmakov, reported suspicious activity at the polling station on 10 Primakov Street. According to Shmakov, he noticed a discrepancy in the number of ballot papers and that the surveillance cameras had been switched off, after which he called the police.
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19.09.2026
23:54
At polling station No. 486 in St Petersburg, a conflict broke out between the team of Yabloko candidate Svetlana Bogomazova and members of the election commission. According to the campaign headquarters, one of the commissioners threatened the campaign’s financial agent during the altercation. Head of the campaign Pavel Meleshchenko also reported obstacles for observers, refusals to accept statements, and threats to call the police.
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23:54
In Moscow, law enforcement disrupted a free concert by rapper Madk1d at the venue “Mesto Mesto” on Pokrovka Street. According to attendees, the concert was cancelled, around ten people were detained, and one of those detained reported that police had used force.
23:09
In Nizhny Novgorod, a major city on the Volga River, Vladislav, an observer from “Yabloko,” reported being pressured by a group of young people near polling station No. 2353 after he complained about irregularities, as well as discrepancies in voter turnout data. According to him, after contacting the electoral commissions and the Public Chamber, several men approached him, accused him of insulting them, and prevented him from entering the polling station for about half an hour, after which the conflict ended.
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22:09
At polling station 1452 in Lyublino, an observer was insulted and attempts were made to force her out when she insisted on her right to leave the station last, together with the commission members. She was also forbidden from filming video and was not given a copy of the daily report.
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21:44
The Moscow Regional Court upheld the decision to remove observer Anastasia Tsvetkova from polling station No. 355 after she complained about an improperly sealed ballot box. According to Tsvetkova, the box was resealed the same day, but the court refused to request footage from the polling station.
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19:37
At polling station No. 371 in Dolgoprudny, a town near Moscow, commission members led by E. A. Poletaeva restricted the observer’s filming by marking out a zone for them with tape on the floor. Previously, observers at this station had reported violations during the assembly and sealing of ballot boxes, and police escorted one of them out.
19:27
The Krasnoselsky District Court in St Petersburg has upheld the claim by Precinct Electoral Commission No. 1209 to remove Daniil Voronin from his role in the election commission. According to the case materials, Voronin violated commission procedures and failed to detect missing voter signatures when ballot papers were issued on 19 September 2026.
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19:26
In St Petersburg, at polling station 122, the chair of the commission and commission members interfered with an observer as she tried to film the voting process, snatched safe-packs out of her hands, and threatened to take away her phone. The commission claimed the woman was supposedly intoxicated and promised to issue a report against her. We have edited this news item because it originally, and incorrectly, stated that it was the commission chair’s family members who obstructed the observer.
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19:26
In the Rostov region, during the elections, Boris Miklyukov, an observer from the Yabloko party, was detained and his whereabouts were unknown for some time. Later, Miklyukov was able to contact fellow party members and reported that he was at home, but his phones remain confiscated.
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