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10.09.2026
The Irkutsk city administration has refused to approve a rally against deforestation in Akademgorodok. The application was submitted by activist Pyotr Mekhonoshin. According to him, the reason given for the refusal was that another event is taking place at the same location and time.
The First Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction upheld the conviction of journalist Roman Ivanov in the case concerning the public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the Russian Armed Forces. The court rejected the cassation appeals filed by Ivanov himself and his defence lawyer.
In Chelyabinsk Oblast, a region in the southern Urals, a court has removed environmental activist Andrey Talevlin and the head of the local Yabloko party, Yaroslav Shcherbakov, from the State Duma elections. The Supreme Court of Udmurtia, a region in the Volga Federal District, has also annulled the registration of Iya Boronina, the head of the regional Yabloko branch, following a legal challenge by a rival candidate.
The Yabloko candidate Iya Boronina has been removed from the State Duma elections in Udmurtia following a lawsuit filed by Anton Golovkov. According to Boronina, the Supreme Court hearing was held on 7 September without her participation or notification, and she does not know the substance of the lawsuit.
At Herzen State Pedagogical University, a 65-year-old head of the Department of World History, Tatyana Kudryavtseva, was dismissed due to old Instagram posts containing images that management considered prohibited symbols. According to Kudryavtseva, she was shown screenshots of posts from 2020 and 2021 and was offered the option to resign to avoid a disciplinary hearing.
The Skovorodino District Court fined 39-year-old Skovorodino resident Bruev 30,000 roubles (about US$335) for a comment on Telegram which, according to the court, insulted government officials (part 3, article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences). The court took mitigating circumstances into account and imposed the minimum fine.
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Maksim K. was charged with participating in an unauthorised public event (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offences) for distributing Yabloko party flyers and apples on 10 August outside the Supreme Court. According to his lawyer, Oskar Cherdzhiev, the man was only standing in the queue and was not handing out apples or flyers.
The 2nd Western District Military Court has fined 35-year-old Olga Chepeleva from Belgorod Region 300,000 roubles (approximately US$3,364) in a case concerning the justification of terrorism, due to a comment in support of the organisations “Freedom of Russia Legion” and “Russian Volunteer Corps.” Previously, Chepeleva was sentenced to five and a half years in prison under charges relating to “military fakes,” and in July she was added to Rosfinmonitoring’s list of “extremists and terrorists.”
The Zamoskvoretsky District Court has returned the police protocol against Anna Shatunovskaya-Burno, a State Duma candidate from the Yabloko party, for the second time. The case concerns prohibited symbols. On 4 September, police detained Shatunovskaya-Burno near her home and held her at the Yakimanka police station for about five hours.
The St Petersburg City Court upheld the fine imposed on Fyodor Gorozhanko under the offence of “discrediting the army” (Part 1, Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code) for reposting a video address by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The court denied the defence’s request to call Schwarzenegger as a witness.
The Presnensky District Court of Moscow has arrested Natalya Sindeeva and Mark Ten in absentia, ordering them to be held in custody for two months from the moment of their detention or extradition. They are charged under Part 3 of Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code.
Shanu Ogney from the Yekaterinburg branch of Yabloko has been fined 2,000 roubles (approximately US$22) for Twitter posts containing an image of a pentagram and the symbols of the Vesna (“Spring”) movement. The decision was made on 9 September by Olga Panfilova, a judge at the Oktyabrsky District Court in Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals region.
The criminal case against blogger Ilya Remeslo on charges of spreading knowingly false information about the Russian army (Part 2, Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) has been submitted to the Primorsky District Court of St Petersburg. Remeslo was detained on 17 July and remains in custody; he does not admit guilt.
A court in Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals, has sentenced Alexander Kudelkine, a Yabloko party candidate for deputy, to 10 days' detention under the article on displaying prohibited symbols (part 1, article 20.3 of the Administrative Code). The reason given was three Facebook posts by Kudelkine containing photos of Hitler and Nazi symbols. The court’s decision will prevent him from participating in the elections.
The state prosecutor has requested sentences of 22 and 21 years in prison, respectively, for Gennady and Olga Kapralov from occupied Melitopol, accusing them of preparing a terrorist attack and participating in a terrorist organisation. In court, the Kapralov couple reported torture and violence by law enforcement officers.
On 9 September, the Moscow Regional Court removed Sergei Kryzhov, leader of the Moscow Region branch of Yabloko, from the State Duma elections. By this date, the courts had also revoked the registration of eight more party candidates in single-member constituencies. The decisions have not yet entered into legal force and will be appealed.
The prosecution is seeking an eight-year prison sentence for 61-year-old historian of Russian cuisine, Pavel Syutkin, on charges of spreading “military fakes.” The reason for the prosecution was a post he made in a Telegram channel on 19 April 2022. The verdict is scheduled to be announced on 15 September.
The Green Party has appealed to the Krasnodar Regional Court, demanding that the Yabloko candidate Vladimir Atamanchuk be removed from the election because of his campaign leaflet about the “fratricidal conflict with the people of Ukraine.” According to a local journalist, if the court upholds the claim, Atamanchuk will become the only candidate in Krasnodar Krai (a region in southern Russia) to be removed from the election on such grounds.
On 9 September, the Moscow City Court rejected the appeal against the extension of the detention of 24-year-old auditor Artyom Minyailo, who was placed in a pretrial detention centre for transferring 750 rubles (US$8) to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK). According to his lawyer, Minyailo developed an infection after his arrest due to a delayed operation, but he is being denied hospitalisation.
In Krasnodar Krai, security forces have detained a local resident born in 1999 who, according to the FSB, was attempting to leave Russia to join a “Ukrainian paramilitary group” that has been designated a terrorist organisation in Russia. The court has placed the man in a pre-trial detention centre.