In Photos: Russians Vote in the First Wartime Parliamentary Elections
Russia held elections for the lower-house State Duma for the first time since President Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Alongside parliamentary races, gubernatorial elections and votes for local legislative assemblies took place in several regions.
In what experts say was Russia’s most restricted parliamentary elections to date, voters had few options to make a difference at the ballot box.
The only party running on an anti-war platform, the liberal Yabloko party, was barred from the party-list ballot, and its candidates in single-member constituencies also faced exclusion and pressure from the authorities.
Russia’s Central Election Commission said it will announce the final results of the elections by Oct. 5.
Alongside parliamentary races, gubernatorial elections and votes for local legislative assemblies took place in several regions.
In what experts say was Russia’s most restricted parliamentary elections to date, voters had few options to make a difference at the ballot box.
The only party running on an anti-war platform, the liberal Yabloko party, was barred from the party-list ballot, and its candidates in single-member constituencies also faced exclusion and pressure from the authorities.
Russia’s Central Election Commission said it will announce the final results of the elections by Oct. 5.
A man approaches a ballot box guarded by a Russian serviceman in the partially occupied Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine.
REUTERS / Alexander Ermochenko
A woman casts her vote in Donetsk.
REUTERS / Alexander Ermochenko
Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov casts his vote at a polling station. A slogan on the ballot reads: "Yabloko. For Peace. N. Rybakov."
REUTERS /Andrei Bok
Cadets from the Maritime State University receive their ballots at a polling station on the first day of Russia's parliamentary election in Vladivostok.
REUTERS / Tatiana Meel
Putin votes online at his office in the Kremlin.
kremlin.ru
A cadet leaves a voting booth before casting his ballot.
REUTERS / Tatiana Meel
A man votes in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia.
REUTERS / Vladislav Nekrasov
Russians voting at the Russian Embassy in Rome, Italy.
Ambasciata Russa in Italia
A woman wipes a banner of Putin during the "Noon against Putin" protest outside the Russian Embassy in Berlin.
REUTERS / Maryam Majd
Exiled opposition figure Ilya Yashin and a group of supporters stage a protest against Vladimir Putin outside the Russian Consulate in New York City on the last day of voting for the parliamentary elections.
Telegram / Ilya Yashin
