The Chertanovsky District Court of Moscow sentenced postgraduate student Alexey Ptushkin of the «Slavic-Greco-Latin Academy» to five years in prison under the article on fake news about the army. The reason was two comments about the destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant dam, which he left on VKontakte in 2023.

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The Ordzhonikidzevsky District Court of Yekaterinburg on August 26 fined 42-year-old Andrey Voloshin 150,000 rubles in the case of repeated discrediting of the army under Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. He was initially given 200,000 rubles, but the amount was reduced taking into account two days in a temporary detention center and nearly two months of house arrest.

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The court in Smolensk annulled the registration of the Yabloko candidate Larisa Dolzhikova. The basis was two posts on her personal page on VKontakte, the party press service said; the lawsuit was filed by Green candidate Daria Shavrikova.

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Bots working in the Kremlin’s interests on VKontakte sharply increased their campaign against expectations of a new mobilization in Russia starting in July, according to data from the Botnadzor project. In June, they left 579 comments on this topic, in July — 7.1 thousand, and in August — 9 thousand.

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Police in Nizhny Novgorod opened an administrative case against Yabloko candidate for the State Duma Dmitry Smirnov under the article on displaying «extremist symbols». The reason was his 2015 post on VKontakte with a photo of Lemmy Kilmister from Motorhead.

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