In the entrance to this polling station in central Moscow, five police officers carefully monitor voters.
Voters have the choice between voting by paper ballot or by electronic ballot box.
Gifts, mainly vouchers, are offered to those who vote from home.
Because the Kremlin prefers to know the Russians are at home and fears that the home stretch of this presidential re-election could be disrupted.
Voting began Friday morning and will end Sunday evening.
In the polling stations, observers, mainly young political activists linked to the candidates, were ordered to closely observe the voters.
“The president's campaign committee taught us all the legal bases of a vote, what we must observe, how we must react if we see provocateurs” explains Elisabeta, a young woman in her twenties who observes the vote on behalf of the Russian president.
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