The Prosecutor General's Office published draft amendments to the 2008 order on victims of political repression. They propose to “organize on an ongoing basis work to identify and cancel” decisions on the rehabilitation of Soviet political prisoners.

The Pushkinogorsky District Court of the Pskov Region arrested in absentia the military observer of the YouTube channel “Popular Politics” Yan Matveev. This was reported by the joint press service of the regional courts. A criminal case was opened against Matveev under the article on evading the duties of a “foreign agent” (330.1 of the Criminal Code). As stated in the press release, he was previously fined twice for posts without the “foreign agent” sign in the Telegram channel.

The head of Kursk, Igor Kutsak, reprimanded the acting chairman of the city's architecture and urban planning committee, Dmitry Kazimirik. “A reprimand was announced and entered into a personal file in connection with blatant negligence in the production and placement of a military-patriotic banner,” Kutsak wrote in his Telegram channel. Earlier, a banner advertising contract military service appeared in Kursk.

Acting Secretary of the General Council of United Russia Vladimir Yakushev said that 308 participants in the war in Ukraine, nominated by the party for elections at various levels, received mandates based on the voting results. As Yakushev clarified, this is 81% of all participants in the invasion who were nominated for elections from United Russia. Most of the candidates, as the secretary emphasized, are officers aged 30 to 50 years.

The Second Court of Appeal of St. Petersburg rejected the appeal against the sentence of 78-year-old physicist Anatoly Maslov, who received 14 years in a maximum security colony for treason. This was reported by a SotaVision correspondent. The meeting was held behind closed doors. After the court’s decision, Maslov’s lawyer Olga Dinze told reporters that his health was “consistently poor”: the scientist had problems with the heart and blood vessels.

The guardianship authorities of the Arkhangelsk region deprived Lydia Prudovskaya, who was arrested in absentia in Russia in the case of repeated “discrediting” of the army, of parental rights to her 12-year-old adopted son, whom she has been raising for more than 10 years. This was reported by New Europe with reference to the woman herself.

The Omsk Regional Court sentenced Sergei Kozlov, a participant in the war in Ukraine, a former fighter of the Wagner PMC, to 19 years and 10 days in a maximum security colony for the murder of his partner. This was reported by the press service of the court and the regional department of the Investigative Committee . Kozlov was found guilty of murdering a pregnant woman with extreme cruelty (points “d”, “e” of Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code).

At the hearing in the case of Kirill Basko and Artem Bressky, accused of sabotage (clause “b” of part 2 of Article 281 of the Criminal Code) in the Moscow Regional Court, FSB First Department detective Pavel Pomitun acted as a witness for the prosecution. He claims that Basko and Bressky received an assignment from an employee of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent.

During the election campaign from May 31 to September 8, the voter rights movement Golos recorded 642 reports of election irregularities in Russia, 394 of them during the three-day voting period of September 6-8. Most reports of falsifications came from St. Petersburg and the Moscow region. This is stated in the statement of “Voice” following the election results.

The Russian army used artillery to shell the city of Nikopol in the Dnepropetrovsk region. This was announced by the head of the regional administration Sergei Lisak. According to him, the Russian military fired about a dozen shells towards Nikopol, as a result of which a 16-year-old girl was killed and three other people were injured. Due to the shelling, private houses were damaged - the body of the deceased was pulled out from under the rubble of one of them.

The Abakan Garrison Military Court sentenced private Andrei Ashcheulov, accused of murder, to eight years in a maximum security colony. This was reported by the press service of the 2nd Eastern District Military Court. According to investigators, in May 2024, a drunken Ascheulov did not like a remark about parking his car, and he shot at the person who made it with a smoothbore gun. The soldier hit the man in the head and he died.

Observer Dmitry Popov was detained on the territory of precinct election commission No. 2213 in St. Petersburg. He told OVD-Info about this. The observer was taken to police department No. 28 of the Central District, where they drew up a report on him for petty hooliganism (Part 1 of Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code) and left him overnight.