Green ink in the ballot box as a form of protest.
This is what is happening in Russia on the first day of the presidential elections with several cases reported in various parts of the country.
So much so that the president of the Commission for Public Control and Citizens' Appeals Alena Bulgakova speaks of "a deliberate organized provocation".
This is also demonstrated by the arrest of a woman at a polling station in Moscow for having poured the liquid into a ballot box, effectively sabotaging the ballots already introduced by the voters.
Her gesture was filmed by the polling station's surveillance cameras and the video posted on social media: a young woman is seen approaching the ballot box in the center of a room and very calmly pouring the dark contents of a bottle into the slot.
Without even trying to escape, the woman remains on the spot, she picks up her cell phone, while a man in uniform approaches her.
A criminal case was opened against her for obstructing the exercise of electoral rights or the work of the Election Commission, Interfax reports, specifying that the woman was taken to a branch of the Commission in Moscow for questioning.
The urn with the ink has meanwhile been sealed.
"Voting continues normally at the polling station with another ballot box," the Russian Central Election Commission said, asking to strengthen the security of the polling stations.
In fact, ballot papers were also damaged with ink in Rostov-on-Don and Karachay-Cherkessia.
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