It’s been a messy and opaque election season in Russia, with the opposition largely barred from running and a crackdown on opponents showing no signs of abating. Here are five takeaways from the vote, and what it means for Russia going forward.
Russian monitors say that home voting is also likely being used to skew the results of the voting for the State Duma, Russia’s lower parliament house, and local legislatures and posts.
Russian blogger and diver Yegor Lesnoi has been cleaning at least half a ton of tires from the bottom of Lake Baikal for several years now. He tells RFE/RL's Siberia.Realities how he became a volunteer, cleaning not only the legendary lake's bottom, but the shore as well.
Even though the Russian authorities no longer allow the public to see the live video feeds from polling stations as the country votes, many videos from polling stations across the country have emerged that seem to show flagrant ballot-box stuffing.
Russia has never held a post-Soviet election that met recognized democratic standards. But that does not mean that the fraud has been evenly spread across the country.
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Andrei Biryukov, a member of the regional election commission of Siberia's Kemerovo region, says he has discovered procedural violations in all 12 polling stations around the town of Guryevsk.
Budget-sector workers in Russia were pictured flocking to polling stations across the country as voting in nationwide legislative elections began.
The Kremlin set off a revolt of sorts in July 2020 when law enforcement arrested the popular governor of the Khabarovsk region, Sergei Furgal, and replaced him with a temporary appointee from Moscow, Mikhail Degtyaryov.
Moscow has accelerated its push to process citizenship for residents of areas held by Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, and is reportedly busing them across the border so they can vote in the Russian elections this weekend.
Russians go to the polls – and Putin goes into self-isolation. Amid a clampdown that has further narrowed the field and limited the right to representation, voters cast ballots in parliamentary and local elections, while the president retreats after an outbreak of COVID-19 in his administration.
A spate of arson attacks against Russian opposition activists and candidates in the country's legislative elections have raised the stakes for those who have remained in the country to continue voicing dissent. But few appear intimidated by the latest wave of pressure.
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