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11.09.2026
13:50
Sergey Derevyanko, a native of Ukraine, was sentenced to imprisonment on treason charges and had 4,000 rubles (approximately US$45) confiscated as “funds used to finance activities against the security interests of Russia.” He was detained at Vnukovo Airport on 5 July 2025 and then spent two months under repeated “carousel” arrests.
13:50
The court returned to the police the administrative case under the article on “discrediting” the army against Yabloko State Duma candidate Artyom Snegovsky, in order to address deficiencies in the protocol. Snegovsky was detained on 1 September near the Maryino electoral commission because of a social media post he allegedly made in 2022; after the protocol was drawn up, he was released.
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13:50
The Amur Regional Court has sentenced a local resident born in 1977 to 18 years in a high-security prison on charges of treason, financing extremism, and participating in an extremist organisation. According to the FSB, the man allegedly used Telegram to send money and information about military equipment to a banned organisation. The sentence was handed down on 21 August.
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13:22
The Second Court of Appeal in St Petersburg has upheld the decision to remove the Yabloko party list from the elections to the Legislative Assembly of Sverdlovsk Region. According to the court, the grounds for removal were violations of exclusive rights and campaigning on blocked social media platforms, which was insisted on by the LDPR party.
13:05
The Leninsky District Court of St Petersburg has sentenced Artyom Leontyev to 7 days of administrative arrest under the article on displaying prohibited symbols (Part 1, Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences). According to the court, on 7 September Leontyev drew an image resembling a Nazi swastika on a lift wall.
12:51
After being released from house arrest, Aleksandr Gliskov will not be involved in political activity, according to lawyer Marina Vasilyeva. Under the court’s decision, Gliskov is still banned from using a phone or the internet, communicating with certain individuals, and leaving his home at night without permission from the investigator.
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12:37
In Henichesk, a 50-year-old local woman was detained in connection with a case of making public calls on a social network, which has been designated extremist, to raise funds for the Ukrainian military. A criminal case was opened against her under Part 2 of Article 280.4 of the Criminal Code, and the materials have been sent to court.
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МВД России
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12:15
Police visited Nelli Vavilina, a candidate for the St Petersburg Legislative Assembly, after she posted criticism of Governor Alexander Beglov. Vavilina was summoned to the police station and informed of plans to draw up a report against her for displaying prohibited symbols (Part 1, Article 20.3 of the Administrative Offences Code).
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11:12
The Supreme Court of Russia upheld as lawful a fine of 2 million rubles (approximately US$21,800) imposed on Marina Zheleznjakova in the case concerning the rehabilitation of Nazism. According to the investigation, on 9 May 2021, Zheleznjakova published a post containing accusations against the leadership of the USSR.
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.