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18.09.2026
19:16
Ivan Rostovtsev, editor-in-chief of the publication Chesnok, was notified of a new administrative charge by telegram, which was sent on 14 September but he was only able to receive it on 18 September. He was not notified in any other way, such as by phone.
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15:32
The Kirovsky District Court in St Petersburg has upheld a claim by the local election commission and removed Dmitry Popov from his post at the polling station. According to the case files, Popov demanded access to the voter list books and disrupted the commission’s work during voting.
15:32
Dmitry Muratov, speaking live on CNN, called on US special envoys Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner to raise the issue of Russian political prisoners in negotiations with the Russian authorities. He spoke about the fates of those convicted and accused in anti-war cases, including Zhenya Berkovich, Alexei Gorinov, and Pavel Kushnir, and drew attention to the difficult conditions faced by prisoners.
15:24
In Dolgoprudny, on 20 September, observers and commission members at several polling stations faced refusals of entry, threats, and obstacles when trying to submit complaints. At polling station No. 4201, election participants reported a possible change in the position of ballots in the box overnight and ballot-stuffing, as well as the exclusion of a journalist and restrictions on the work of a Territorial Electoral Commission member.
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15:23
In Chelyabinsk, a major city in the Urals, on 19 September, security forces detained 19-year-old Yabloko member Vladimir Yuzhakov after he wrote “Make love not war” and “Peace to the world!” in chalk on the pavement near polling stations. According to his wife, at the police station, Yuzhakov was made to write an explanation, his phone was confiscated and he was threatened with deportation, but no official record was drawn up.
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15:17
An anonymous Telegram channel, “Babai Will Call,” which is close to the authorities in Tatarstan, has threatened to use force against anyone who brings apples to polling station No. 1259 in Innopolis—presumably supporters of the Yabloko party. On 18 September, politician Dmitry Rumyantsev reported these threats, as well as pressure being exerted on local politicians Irina Nikiforova and Ruslan Zinatullin.
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14:52
Roman Yakovlev, a candidate for the State Duma from the Communist Party, stated that members of the electoral commissions in Tolmachevo, Novosibirsk Region, filled out applications for home voting on behalf of 600 people at polling stations No. 842 and No. 843. According to Communist Party lawyer Kamil Dzhafarov, the communists have lodged complaints and demanded the annulment of the voting results, as well as an investigation into possible falsification.
14:13
At polling station No. 2720 in Moscow, National Guard and police officers restricted voter entry, explaining that it was to prevent crowding. As a result, a queue of more than twenty people formed at the entrance, and the organisers brought out two benches for those waiting outside from 12:30.
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13:52
In St Petersburg, observers at several polling stations reported possible changes in the position of seals and ballot papers overnight, after comparing photographs taken in the evening and morning during the elections to the State Duma and the Legislative Assembly. Commission members deny any violations, and the official turnout as of 10 a.m. stood at over 42%.
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13:50
State Duma deputy from Buryatia, Vyacheslav Markhaev, has reported abnormally high voter turnout in some districts of the republic, as well as cases of pressure on observers from the Communist Party, including damage to a car and surveillance. Markhaev also spoke about the detention of two women at polling station No. 898 who, according to him, admitted that they had been asked to vote for United Russia and the LDPR in exchange for a reward.
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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