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10.09.2026
17:57
On 10 September, the Volgograd Regional Court held a closed hearing in the case of political analyst and journalist Mikhail Serenko, who is accused under several articles, including extortion, rehabilitation of Nazism, defamation, and public display of pornography. According to lawyer Kristina Serebryakova, the session concluded with the reading of the charges; the next stage, scheduled for 17 September, will be the questioning of the alleged victims.
17:57
A court in the Cheboksary District fined 57-year-old Luiza Shogulina 1,000 roubles (US$11) for including a link to Instagram in her VKontakte profile. The court ruled that this constituted the display of banned symbols.
17:57
The Leninsky District Court in Astrakhan, a city on the Volga River in southern Russia, has fined a tarot reader 1,000 roubles (about US$11) for displaying “extremist” symbols. According to the court, the reason was photos and videos featuring a pentagram and an image of Baphomet posted on VKontakte, as well as items bearing these symbols that were seized from the Astrakhan resident.
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In Crimea, the investigation has been completed in the case against a 48-year-old resident of Feodosia, a town on the Crimean Peninsula, who is accused of insulting the feelings of believers (Part 1, Article 148 of the Criminal Code) because of social media posts made from March 2025 to June 2026. According to the investigation, the man posted statements that, in the view of law enforcement, offended the religious feelings of believers.
17:56
The Basmanny District Court in Moscow has extended the detention of Darya Yegeryeva, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and three other defendants in the case concerning alleged involvement with the “Forum of Free States of Post-Russia” until 9 December 2026. The hearing was held behind closed doors, with relatives and diplomats removed from the courtroom.
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17:56
The Meshchansky District Court in Moscow has closed the hearing to the public in the case of Oleg Deripaska against journalists from Verstka, Important Stories, and the company Google. Deripaska is demanding retractions of publications regarding his alleged involvement in a network that, according to investigative reports, introduced schoolgirls to influential men.
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SOTAvision
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The Gulkevichsky District Court has sentenced Tatyana Khodokova to a three-year suspended sentence under the article on activities of “undesirable organisations” (part 2 of Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code) for financially supporting two religious associations registered in Ukraine. According to the court, from December 2022 to February 2023, she transferred 34,395 rubles (approx. US$380) to them.
17:56
The Kirovsky District Court of Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals, heard the case of Vladimir Sobyanin, a candidate for deputy from the Yabloko party, who was accused of displaying extremist symbols. He and five other candidates were detained on 7 September and taken to Police Station No. 9.
17:29
The Basmanny Court in Moscow has begun to consider in absentia the case against Michael Naki for alleged calls against Russia’s security—the grounds for this were a video from 7 May 2024 about Putin’s fifth inauguration. According to the prosecution, the video contains calls to overthrow the authorities and expresses negative views on the use of the Russian army.
17:18
Denis Popov from Yaroslavl region has been sentenced to a second prison term—10 years in a high-security penal colony—for inciting terrorism and justifying terrorist acts, which, according to the court, he posted in comments on YouTube from a correctional facility. According to the FSB, Popov had previously been convicted and given a 10-year sentence in a case concerning preparation for a terrorist act and public incitement to extremist activity.
15:26
The first hearing in the criminal case against blogger Ilya Remeslo will take place at the Primorsky District Court in St Petersburg on 17 September. He is accused of knowingly spreading false information about the Russian Armed Forces (Part 2, Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).
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15:26
The press service of the Vladimir region government blurred the face of the editor-in-chief of Kolchuginskiye Vesti, Elena Frolova, in a photo from Governor Aleksandr Avdeyev’s visit to Kolchugino, a town near Vladimir in central Russia. Avdeyev threatened Frolova with legal action if she does not prove her statements about the consequences of the maternity hospital’s closure.
14:51
Igor Schmidt, a 54-year-old resident of Sevastopol, was released on 7 September after serving a full six-year sentence on charges of organising the activities of an ‘extremist organisation.’ According to the European Association of Jehovah’s Witnesses, the case was related to his participation in religious gatherings.
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14:50
The Chelyabinsk Regional Court has revoked the registration of Valentina Komkova, the Yabloko party candidate, for the State Duma elections following a lawsuit by Ilgam Gizatullin from the Green Party. Previously, the same court had disqualified two other Yabloko candidates—Andrey Talevlin and Yaroslav Shcherbakov—from the election.
14:33
Ekaterinburg city council member Konstantin Kiselev has been fined 2,000 roubles (approx. US$22) under the article on displaying banned symbols, due to three posts on VKontakte. The investigation was triggered by a tip-off from the “Zov Naroda” (“Call of the People”) movement on 26 August 2026.
13:51
The EU is considering imposing sanctions against ten Russian judges, prosecutors and other officials believed to be involved in the crackdown on the Yabloko party and its representatives. The proposed list includes, among others, Supreme Court judge Vyacheslav Kirillov, judges Igor Zinchenko and Denis Tyutin, as well as judge Viktoria Malyamova and prosecutor Anna Goryacheva.
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13:47
Chechen Mansur Movlaev has been held in pre-trial detention in Almaty—a major city in Kazakhstan—for almost 16 months. Russia is seeking his extradition on charges of extortion, which he believes to be fabricated, while Kazakhstan has denied him refugee status. On 10 September, the Cassation Court of Kazakhstan will consider Movlaev’s appeal against the refusal of asylum.
13:22
The Nevsky District Court of St Petersburg refused to question the experts who had identified “signs of incitement of hatred towards military personnel” in posts by Egor Gulyaev. The court also granted the prosecutor’s motion to send an additional request to VKontakte regarding the possibility of viewing materials on Gulyaev’s page using a VPN.
Gulyaev is being prosecuted under the article on spreading “fake news” about the Russian army “out of hatred” due to posts on VKontakte.
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13:21
On 9 September, the electoral commission of Novgorod Region annulled the registration of Anna Cherepanova, the lead candidate on the Yabloko party list, for the regional Duma elections. Previously, Cherepanova had been held administratively liable for displaying prohibited symbols, which stripped her of the right to participate in the elections.
11:50
The Lefortovo District Court in Moscow has arrested, in absentia, Marina Yegorova, the wife of politician Leonid Gozman, in connection with a case involving interference with an investigation (Part 2, Article 294 of the Criminal Code) and smuggling of cultural valuables (Part 3, Article 226.1 of the Criminal Code). According to her lawyer, the case was initiated in autumn 2024 after a driver was detained at the border with family silverware, and in November 2025 Yegorova left Russia for Israel.
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