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18.09.2026
14:42
The Gagarinsky District Court in Moscow fined economist Yekaterina Zhuravskaya for sharing links on Twitter to materials from Deutsche Welle, The Insider, Radio Liberty, Dozhd and Meduza. Earlier in 2026, Zhuravskaya was added to the registers of “foreign agents” and “terrorists and extremists.”
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14:35
In the Zelenodolsk district, parliamentary candidate Irina Nikiforova and her team withdrew from monitoring the elections due to threats and pressure from a group of young people reportedly brought in by Ramadanovsky. According to those involved, district head Afanasyev is cooperating with Ramadanovsky, while the police are not responding to what is happening.
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14:23
In Volgograd region, a man has been detained on suspicion of publicly inciting extremist and terrorist activity. According to investigators, he administered a channel on a messaging app where he posted content calling for violence and justifying terrorism. He is facing criminal charges under Part 2 of Article 280 and Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Russian Criminal Code.
14:17
A court in Petrozavodsk, a city in northwest Russia, has fined the emigrated journalist and film director Sergei Markelov 60,000 roubles (US$700) under the article on violating the rules for the activities of a foreign agent (Part 2, Article 330 of the Criminal Code). Markelov stated that he does not agree with the requirement to label himself as a foreign agent.
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13:22
In Moscow, at polling station No. 2052, commission members and police removed an observer, explaining that he “walks around the station too much.” This was reported by Vera Ganzya, a Communist Party candidate for the State Duma.
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13:20
The Second Eastern District Military Court has received the criminal case of 71-year-old Nadezhda Malyugina from Leninsk-Kuznetsky, a city in southwestern Siberia, who is accused of two counts of justifying terrorism on the internet. Earlier, in July 2025, Malyugina was fined under the charge of inciting hatred, and in February 2026 her name was added to the Rosfinmonitoring register because of prosecution under anti-terrorism legislation.
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13:09
In Saint Petersburg, at polling station 122, an election observer reported that a person without local registration was given four ballots. After this, commission members told her that they would seek her removal from the station.
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13:03
Mikhail Semenov, who was convicted for crossing the border with Abkhazia, was denied parole on 10 September, and afterwards, the prison marked him as prone to escape. According to his defence, Semenov is being pressured, his documents are being confiscated, and essential medication is not being passed on to him.
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12:42
A student who became a member of the electoral commission from the Yabloko party in St Petersburg received a summons to the military enlistment office on 16 September. On 17 September, they received a call from the university asking whether they planned to take part in illegal protests on 20 September.
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12:15
The Beloretsk Interdistrict Court in Bashkiria fined a 63-year-old local resident 30,000 roubles (approximately US$335) for nine comments on the social network VKontakte, including a statement that Putin “doesn’t need any negotiations” with Ukraine. He was found guilty of discrediting the Russian army (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences).
12:03
A student from Mari State University reported that students are being required to provide a screenshot proving their participation in the vote in order to get credit for their labour law course. By law, participating in elections is voluntary, and students are not obliged to confirm their political choices as part of their studies.
11:51
Artyom Kamardin, convicted in the “Mayakovsky case,” has been assigned to dismantle Soviet-era gas masks at the penal colony, where, according to him, they are not provided with personal protective equipment. Kamardin’s wife, Alexandra Popova, said that working conditions in this production are more dangerous than in other jobs at the colony.
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11:47
Pavel Kalashnik, the Yabloko Party candidate for the Biysk constituency No. 45, reported a bot attack on his Telegram channel: within a few minutes, more than 70 accounts subscribed to the channel, which had a total audience of just over 100 people. He said the attack might have been organised to get the channel blocked, so he has temporarily closed access to it.
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11:46
Sergey Demin, an activist from Moscow, was fined 50,000 rubles (approximately US$550) under the article on “discrediting” the army for holding a picket with a poster reading “Peace to the World” on Triumfalnaya Square. Demin timed his picket to coincide with the State Duma “elections” and the “opportunity to change everything.”
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11:46
In Solnechnogorsk, a town near Moscow, around 70 observers from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) were not allowed into the polling station, with the reason given being a “non-working flash drive.” According to them, they are preparing a joint complaint to the territorial election commission about being denied entry to the polling station.
11:31
More than 250 out of 430 observers from the Yabloko party were unable to start their work; observers were completely barred from the Kurortny and Primorsky districts of St Petersburg. Yabloko candidate Dmitry Anisimov has filed a complaint with Territorial Election Commission No. 33, demanding that the commission’s inaction be declared unlawful.
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11:12
In Ryazan, a city in central Russia, a citizen of one of the Arab countries has been detained on suspicion of preparing to become a mercenary (Part 1, Article 30; Article 359 of the Criminal Code). The man has been taken into custody. According to investigators, he allegedly tried to join a Ukrainian armed formation to take part in combat operations against the Russian Armed Forces.
10:39
In Tyumen, a major city in Siberia, former police officer Vladimir Nekrasov was detained on 17 September. Sources link this to the criminal case against lawyer Dmitry Gorin. According to those familiar with the matter, Nekrasov may have been charged with extremism, and his home was searched.
10:39
The artist Andrei Akuzin from Komsomolsk-on-Amur, a major city in the Russian Far East, was removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list of terrorists and extremists on 16 September—he had been added to it after his death in a remand centre in April. Akuzin was detained on 2 April on suspicion of posting anti-war comments, and on 8 April he died in the remand centre, reportedly by suicide, according to friends and human rights advocates.
10:39
On 18 September, at a polling station in St Petersburg, an observer from a parliamentary candidate was denied access due to not having permanent registration in the city. The commission members initially refused to accept their complaint, but after a repeated request, the complaint was registered.