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.
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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.
A popular Instagram vlogger from Russia's northwestern Komi region, Aleksandr Tretyakov (@tretyakov034), posted a video on September 9 in which he offered to "personally" pay 500 rubles (about $7) to anyone over the age of 18 who is registered in Komi.
As the old joke goes, the Soviet Union was heralded for producing the world's largest microchips and the fastest watches. But Russia alone can lay claim to having a "single voting day" over a span of three days.
Repression and manipulation are nothing new for Russian elections. Ahead of the State Duma vote and local balloting that begin on September 17, what's new this time around is the use of "foreign agent" laws to silence independent voices and seek control over the process -- and Russia's future.
This special edition of the China In Eurasia Briefing focuses on September 16’s Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit and all the plotlines to watch.
"Co-ethnics" at home and abroad are encouraged to fly the Serbian flag on a new joint holiday with Republika Srpska that, at best, sends ambiguous signals about postwar borders in the Balkans.
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