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Corona-compliant voting:
Citizens in Russia could cast their vote for a new parliament for three days.
The elections were dominated by the pandemic.
Near the city of Omsk, members of the campaign commission in protective clothing help 82-year-old Nadezhda Tredina to vote.
Photo: Evgeniy Sofiychuk / AP
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Camping feeling:
In the Moscow region, the electoral commission has set up mobile polling stations - among other things in tents.
In the election, the 450 seats in the Duma as well as local and regional representative bodies were decided.
Around 108 million people were eligible to vote.
Photo: Evgeny Feldman / AP
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Paper chaos:
election workers empty the ballot boxes.
For the first time, the Duma election was extended to three days.
So far, there has only been something similar in the 2020 constitutional referendum, when President Vladimir Putin allowed himself to run for two more terms.
Extending the voting time makes it more difficult for election observers to monitor them.
Photo: ALEXANDER NEMENOV / AFP
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Crossing the border:
Russian citizens living in the Donetsk conflict region in eastern Ukraine are brought across the border by bus.
Ukraine had previously protested against Russian polling stations on the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which was annexed by Moscow.
Photo: Alexandr Dimitrovskiy / AP
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House
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In the village of Starozolotovsky, election workers ensure that older people can cast their votes in their own four walls.
In the parliamentary elections in Russia, the Kremlin party is still clearly in the lead after counting two-thirds of the ballot papers: "United Russia" has so far reached more than 48 percent, as the election commission announced in Moscow on Monday.
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Under the microscope:
An elderly voter in Podolsk outside Moscow is looking very carefully at the ballot paper.
He doesn't seem the only one who needs some extra visual aid before making his cross ...
Photo: MAXIM SHIPENKOV / EPA-EFE
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... This voter in St. Petersburg also went to the polling station with a magnifying glass.
According to the first results, at least four parties will be represented in the new parliament with its 450 members.
In addition to the ruling party "United Russia", these are the communists, the right-wing populist party LDPR of the ultra-nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky and the party "Just Russia".
They are all considered parties loyal to the system and were already represented in the Duma.
Photo: Dmitri Lovetsky / AP
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Voting at home:
a woman is standing in front of a ballot box in a room holding a ballot paper.
When the votes for the parliamentary elections were counted, opponents of the Kremlin party and observers complained about irregularities in the capital Moscow.
Even more than twelve hours after the polls closed, there were no results of the online vote for the State Duma on Monday morning.
Photo: Evgeniy Sofiychuk / dpa
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In traditional guise:
the polling stations were also open in Chechnya.
This time, electronic voting was also massively promoted: it was possible on a trial basis in seven of a total of 85 regions.
Photo: Musa Sadulayev / AP
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At the summit:
election workers are on the move
near the Chechen capital Grozny, along with a police officer, passed an old defense tower.
Allies of the imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said the election had been massively falsified.
In particular, they referred to repeated delays in the release of the electronic voting results in Moscow.
Photo: Musa Sadulayev / AP
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Surveillance apparatus:
In the office of the Central Election Commission in Moscow, images from surveillance cameras from the polling stations are transmitted.
In the past few months, the Russian authorities have taken massive action against the opposition, and many opponents of the government are behind bars or have fled abroad.
Very few candidates who were decidedly critical of Putin were allowed to run for election.
Photo: YURI KOCHETKOV / EPA-EFE
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Election preparation:
In the community
Starozolotovsky read through two women voting instructions.
The victory of the ruling party "United Russia" was already considered almost certain.
In addition to the party, 13 other parties competed.
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