In Russia today, March 15, three days of voting began in the so-called “presidential elections.”
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The “elections” are accompanied by a number of incidents during which participants tried to spoil the “electoral process” – they set fire to voting booths and ballot boxes, doused them with paint, etc.
The corresponding photos and videos appeared on social networks.
In particular, the following cases are reported:
- in the city of Kogalym (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug), a woman tried to set fire to a stationary ballot box using a Molotov cocktail;
- in St. Petersburg, a girl was detained for throwing a bottle with a Molotov cocktail on the porch of school No. 358, where two polling stations are located;
- In the Maryino district of Moscow, an elderly woman set fire to a voting booth. Social networks claim that the woman did not try to leave the polling station, but filmed the burning booth on her phone;
- A 20-year-old girl poured brilliant green into a ballot box at a polling station in Moscow. Similar incidents with brilliant green occurred at two sites in the Voronezh region;
- in Rostov and Karachay-Cherkessia, ballots were spoiled with ink.
In the Russian media, such incidents have traditionally been attributed to the alleged influence of people from “Ukrainian Telegram channels.”
Other Russians are using a less radical way to protest – invalidating their ballot. Photos of the relevant ballots are published as part of the “Voice Against” campaign on the website www. golos-protiv.com.
Ukrainian cyber specialists caused disruptions in online voting in the “Putin elections”
Source: Racurs
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