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17.09.2026
17:32
In the Avtovo district of St Petersburg, police detained deputy Vadim Davydov and the Communist Party district committee secretary Anatoly Goryunov while they were distributing campaign materials. According to the police, campaigning is not allowed on Thursdays, although a pre-election silence day had not been officially declared.
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16:35
In Voronezh, a city in southwestern Russia, security forces carried out searches within a single day at the homes of seven activists, including Fyodor Orlov, Pavel Sychev, Alexander Strelnikov, and Lena from Rassvet. According to Civil Defense Node, the searches are connected to a criminal case concerning the justification of terrorism.
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16:33
Alexander Kudelkin, a former candidate from the Yabloko party, has been released from a special detention centre in Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals, after serving ten days under arrest for a case involving the display of banned symbols. He was detained on 7 September over posts on Facebook, after which the regional electoral commission removed Kudelkin and three other Yabloko candidates from the regional legislative assembly election lists.
16:03
The Supreme Court has upheld as lawful the decision to annul the registration of the Yabloko party’s candidate list for the Legislative Assembly elections in Pskov region, a northwestern area near the borders with Estonia and Latvia. The reason for the disqualification was the absence of a seal impression on the power of attorney for the party’s financial representative.
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15:21
The Tverskoy District Court in Moscow has extended the detention of Readovka founder Alexey Kostylev until 19 December, despite complaints of deteriorating health, a broken arm and frequent epileptic seizures. Kostylev is a defendant in a case concerning the embezzlement of one billion rubles (about US$11 million) during the supply of UAVs; former Readovka employees have testified against him.
15:21
Mikhail Matveev, a State Duma candidate from the Communist Party (KPRF), has stated that territorial election commissions in Samara Region are passing observers' personal data to employers, after which the observers come under pressure and are demanded to stop working at the elections. According to Matveev, such cases have been identified in Samara and Kinel, a town near Samara, and he has filed a complaint with the Investigative Committee.
15:20
The Chuvashia Election Commission has announced that following a court decision to deregister candidates from the Yabloko party, Vladislav Arkadyev and Viktor Stenshin, their names will be removed from the ballot papers. Arkadyev was standing in the Cheboksary district no. 43, and Stenshin in the Kanash district no. 42.
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15:20
In Volgograd region, two young men and a young woman were detained for filming and posting online the aftermath of a missile strike on an industrial facility. According to law enforcement, such actions may carry criminal liability, up to charges of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code) and fines of up to one million rubles (approximately US$11,000).
15:07
The court in St Petersburg has kept Ilya Remeslo in pre-trial detention, despite requests to release him under a travel restriction order. The substantive hearing of the case is scheduled for 28 September.
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14:44
The Zaporizhzhia Regional Court has sentenced 69-year-old Nataliya Nadeina, a resident of Russian-occupied Tokmak (a city in southern Ukraine), to 12 years in prison and one year of restricted freedom on charges of treason for making transfers to support the Ukrainian armed forces. According to investigators, from August 2023 to May 2025, she transferred 60,454 roubles (approximately US$670) to a bank card that was used for collecting donations.
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14:26
A protocol was drawn up against lawyer Leonid Solovyov under the administrative article on “discrediting the army.” The case has been submitted to the Tverskoy District Court in Moscow, but a date for the hearing has not yet been set.
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14:24
A court in St Petersburg has rejected the appeal of lawyer Ilya Remeslo and upheld his detention in the case concerning the dissemination of “fake news” about the Russian army. The first substantive hearing is scheduled for 23 September at the Primorsky District Court.
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14:13
In the Rostov region, police detained Yabloko election observer Boris Miklyukov at polling station No. 58 in the settlement of Yuzhny and took him to Rostov-on-Don, after which he could no longer be reached. According to preliminary information, the detention may be related to a comment Miklyukov made on social media.
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13:24
Zhanna Nemtsova, daughter of Boris Nemtsov, has been declared internationally wanted. Previously, the Zamoskvoretsky District Court in Moscow arrested her in absentia under the article on participation in the activities of an “undesirable” organisation (Part 3, Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code) and set a pre-trial detention measure of two months in custody.
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13:20
The Central District Court of Tyumen has placed Konstantin Gamerschmidt in a pre-trial detention centre, accusing him of publicly calling for extremist activity online. According to investigators, he twice left “provocative” messages on Telegram—on 11 September 2022 and 18 May 2023.
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13:02
Activists from the Tatarstan branch of the Yabloko party have reported an attempt to evict them from their office in Kazan, a major city in Tatarstan: on 16 September, the electricity in the premises was cut off, and the owner explained it as an accident. The branch believes the electricity cut is a form of pressure, and links the incident to a demand for them to urgently vacate the premises and the backdated submission of an agreement to terminate the lease.
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12:38
In Tambov, a 35-year-old local resident was detained and accused of making public calls for terrorism on social media. A criminal case was opened against them under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code.
12:36
FSB officers detained a Sevastopol resident, born in 1979, in the Moscow region on suspicion of high treason and preparing to smuggle weapons (Articles 275 and 226.1 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, the man was communicating via Telegram with a representative of the Security Service of Ukraine and was planning to supply military equipment to Ukraine through third countries.
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12:36
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) stated that the party’s observers were not registered at polling stations in Voronezh, Gribanovsky and Rossoshansky districts, and that the lists of observers from two State Duma candidates were also not accepted. According to a source from Voronezh1.ru, the reason for the refusal was incorrectly completed documentation.
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12:02
In Kurgan, a major city in the Urals, an unemployed man has been detained on suspicion of publicly inciting extremism (Part 2, Article 280 of the Criminal Code) and unlawful possession of drugs on a large scale (Part 2, Article 228 of the Criminal Code). According to law enforcement, he posted calls to kill Russian citizens on social media, and during a search of his home, drugs, LGBT symbols, satanic paraphernalia and a deactivated weapon were found.