PoliticsRussia’s State Duma election opens amid record online turnout and observer intimidation

Russia’s State Duma election began with mass outages in Moscow’s electronic voting system and problems accessing the Gosuslugi portal. Online turnout reportedly surged far beyond 2021 levels, while public-sector workers were pressured to vote electronically. Occupied Donetsk claimed more than a million early votes, and opposition observers were barred, bribed, or otherwise pushed away from polling stations.

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