On August 26, the Supreme Court of Karelia, at the suit of Tatyana Kostkina, a resident of the village of Shuezero, canceled the order of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic to create a fish breeding site on Lake Shuezero. The court decided that the ministry violated anti-corruption laws. The commission on the creation of the site included an employee of the Institute of Fisheries, Sergei Korkin , who, for a fee, determines the suitability of the site for creating a farm.

The resolution recognizing the hippodrome in the center of Rostov as a cultural heritage site was published on August 26 by the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Objects of the Rostov Region. Now it cannot be demolished or rebuilt. Source: Rostov Hippodrome website In April 2026, a court in Krasnodar returned the hippodrome, where horse racing had taken place since the beginning of the 20th century, to state ownership.

Candidates in single-mandate constituencies from Yabloko to regional parliaments in at least 11 regions faced refusals or obstacles in publishing their campaign or party program in local media, 7x7 journalists calculated. In the Kaliningrad region, the newspaper Strana Kaliningrad agreed to publish Yabloko's program only if calls for peace and negotiations were removed from it.

Makeup artists Tatiana and Christina took photos in early August against the backdrop of destroyed public spaces, potholes on the roads, communal excavations and rickety fences. They wanted to show “beauty against the backdrop of chaos” in order to draw the attention of the Mezhdurechensk mayor’s office to the state of the city.

A criminal case has been opened against Denis Matveev, an activist of the Ecowatch for the North Caucasus from Tuapse, for organizing or participating in the activities of a terrorist organization (Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), activist Vitaly Votanovsky told 7x7.

Oskol Transport Company sent notices to drivers of the only high-speed tram route that they will be fired from November 2. This was reported by “ Oskol Time ” and the telegram channel “ Buses and in general ”. Over two years, more than 4.5 thousand people signed a petition against the closure of trams. The workers were fired due to the expiration date of the contract, they were offered to find another job.

The prosecutor of Veliky Novgorod sent warnings about the inadmissibility of violating the law to the chairman of the local Yabloko branch, Anna Cherepanova, and the party’s State Duma candidate, Viktor Shalyakin. Novgorod Yabloko reports this. In the propaganda video “Russia needs peace!”, as well as audio on the radio, the prosecutor saw social discord, discrediting the Russian army, and the spread of fake news.

In Rostov-on-Don, four people were hospitalized after drones hit two high-rise buildings; the child is in serious condition, said the governor of the Rostov region, Yuri Slyusar. Three more people were injured in Aksai, and private houses were damaged in the Bagaevsky district. The Ozon press service reported a fire at a logistics center in Rostov-on-Don, but it was quickly extinguished. The company opened this warehouse last fall; it can hold up to 10 million goods.

Lawyer Natalia Tikhonova said that six FSB officers came to Elena Morgunova in the Skopino special detention center (Rostov region) and brought her to a “terrifying psychological state.” The Mediazona publication published a video message from Tikhonova, in which she demanded that FSB officers stop bullying. According to the lawyer, the employees humiliated and insulted Morgunova, demanding that she provide her phone password and begin operational cooperation.

The miners who worked at the Pervomaiskaya and Berezovskaya mines, in their appeal, demanded that candidates for State Duma deputies, who are “asking for a vote,” pay attention to the situation with payments from the Northern Kuzbass coal company. The video was sent to the 7x7 editorial office by the wife of one of the miners. “Many of them (candidates - clarification “7x7”) go to the second round, or change positions, and some have connections.

Entrepreneur from Krasnoyarsk Alan Elbakiev, who is running for deputies of the regional legislative assembly, recorded a video about threats from the Deputy Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Sergei Ponomarenko. The communist sent appeals to the heads of the Investigative Committee, the FSB, the Prosecutor General's Office and the Central Election Commission. Krasnoyarsk blogger Alexey Aksyutenko drew attention to his appeal.

Residents of 11 villages in eight districts reported on the lack of electricity on the page of Governor Mikhail Vedernikov, according to the Kromnash telegram channel. Source: Mikhail Vedernikov’s VK page “When we call the administration of the Palkinsky district, we get the answer: “Be patient,” they ask: “Why don’t you have a generator for emergencies? And if food spoils, cook stew. You are not the usual city people, but we, the administration, are village people.

At 72, she has a doctorate in biology, several hunger strikes, forced confinement in a mental hospital for protesting, and the status of one of the most controversial activists in Siberia. For some, Natalia Shamina is an uncompromising defender of Novosibirsk Akademgorodok from developers and officials. For others, she is a strange pensioner who is afraid of any changes and supports the war in Ukraine.

The Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for the Moscow Region recognized as legal the February decision to refuse to initiate a case of abuse of power against police officers from Podolsk. This was reported by Buryat woman Maria Tsydenova, who was beaten and humiliated by police during her arrest because of her nationality.

Can activists join forces with ideological opponents when concrete causes or people’s lives are at stake? Representatives of regional initiatives and human rights movements told 7x7 where they draw the line between pragmatic, case-by-case cooperation and betraying their own principles.