The incident occurred on the first day of the Russian presidential election.
A woman set fire to a voting booth in a Moscow polling station this Friday, the first day of the Russian presidential election.
In images posted on social networks, we see a person coming out of a voting booth before flames emerge from it.
Assessors then tried to contain the fire before the woman was arrested.
“The Moscow election commission told Ria Novosti that work (
in the polling station
) had resumed normally after the incident,” according to the agency.
Other incidents were recorded this Friday.
In Moscow, several people allegedly tried to destroy ballots by pouring paint into ballot boxes, report SOTAVision and Meduza.
At least one 20-year-old girl was reportedly arrested by the police.
The same media indicates that a person threw a Molotov cocktail on the porch of a school in Saint Petersburg, transformed into polling stations.
The Russian election is being held from March 15 to 17 in the country.
Shortly before the start of the vote, Vladimir Putin, in power for twenty-four years and assured of winning, urged his compatriots to vote “patriotically” in these “difficult” times.