In Pictures: Voting Across Russia

Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny shakes hands with his daughter Daria as he votes at a polling station during the Moscow city council elections on September 8. The elections have drawn fierce protests after several opposition candidates allied with Navalny were barred from standing.

Russian opposition activist Lyubov Sobol leaves a polling booth prior to casting her vote in Moscow. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin casts his vote at a polling station in Moscow.

Grigory Melkonyants (left), head of the Golos election-monitoring group, and Aleksei Venediktov, editor in chief of Ekho Moskvy radio station, at the election-monitoring headquarters for the 2019 Moscow city council elections. 

A woman casts her vote at a polling station in Moscow.

Russian opposition activist Lyubov Sobol (center) after casting her vote in Moscow. Sobol, a close ally of Navalny, was barred from running by authorities due to alleged irregularities in her application for candidacy. 

Navalny takes a photo with two women after voting on September 8.

A man walks out of a voting booth at a polling station in Moscow.

Voters study a candidate information board at a polling station in Moscow.

An elderly couple arrives to vote at a polling station during local and regional elections, in St. Petersburg.

A man comes out of a polling booth in St. Petersburg.

A polling station in Tatarstan