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Russia's Duma election: arrests after protests against the result

2021-09-28T12:59:46.539Z


A week after the Russian Duma elections, thousands of people are still protesting against suspected election fraud. In the university city of Yekaterinburg, the police now apparently cracked down.


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Protests against the result of the Duma election in Moscow

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Several people were arrested in Russia after protests against the result of the parliamentary elections.

In Yekaterinburg in the Urals, police arrested nine activists, said the civil rights portal Owd-Info.

One of them is said to have been beaten when he was arrested.

On Saturday, people in several Russian cities protested the result of the Duma election around a week ago, which they believe to have been manipulated.

According to independent observers, around 1,000 people followed a call to protest in the capital, Moscow.

There had already been protests at the beginning of last week.

In the days that followed, 90 people were arrested in connection with the rallies, according to Owd-Info.

Despite losses, the Kremlin party "United Russia" clearly won the three-day vote with 49.8 percent of the vote, according to official figures.

The Communist Party came in second with 18.9 percent.

The election was also seen as a mood test for President Vladimir Putin.

Opposition and election observers complain about massive violations of the vote count.

The handling of votes cast online by Moscow voters is particularly criticized: their results were published quite late and influenced the final result in favor of "United Russia".

ssu / dpa

Source: spiegel

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