Moscow: Russian President Party Vladimir Putin is located on Sunday to maintain the majority in parliament on the last day of the three-day election where most of the Kremlin criticism is prohibited from voting.
Voting came after an unprecedented crackdown on the opposition this year, with Russian authorities hit the most famous domestic enemy Alexei Navalny and forbade his organization as “extremist”.
In the lead until the vote this weekend, all of his top allies were arrested or had escaped from the country, with anyone related to his group continued to run in parliamentary and local polls scheduled at 8:00 a.m.
“This is basically not the election.
The applicable people have no choice,” 43-year-old businessman Vladimir Zakharov told AFP in the second city of Saint Petersburg in Russia.
The election was also damaged by sensor claims and rampant ballots.
When the vote began on Friday, Apple and Google caused an upstream between Russian opposition after they issued the application “smart voting” Navalny, which showed supporters they had to return to encourage the politicians who were in harmony.
The source familiar with Google and Apple’s decision told AFP the step was taken under pressure from the Russian authority, including threats to capture local staff of Giants Tech.
On Friday night, the popular Telegram Messenger has also removed the “Smart Voting” bot Navalny, and on Saturday his team said Google pressed them to remove the Google Documents with recommended candidates after the request from Roskomnadzor Media Roskomnadzor recommended.
His team called the last “remaining” documents supporting their selection tactics and asked for voters to take screenshots from them if they were removed.
Russian social media while it was flooded with reports of refilling ballots and military soldiers patroling the polling station.
Critics also refer to online voting, new restrictions on independent election observers and polls spread over three days as an opportunity to present bulk election fraud.
On Saturday afternoon, the monitor of Independent Golos elections – the authorities of branded “foreign agents” ahead of the poll – have tracked more than 2,750 reports of election violations.
Ella Pampfilova’s election said on Saturday, His commission had received 137 “coercion” election reports.
Going to the lower state of the State Duma door, the Putin United Russian party is a voting in historical position.
The recent survey by Pollster Pollster managed by the state shows less than 30 percent of Russia plans to choose the party, down at least 10 percentage points within a few weeks ahead of the last parliamentary election in 2016.
While Putin is 68 years old still popular, United Russia has seen a decline Support as a standard of living in economic stagnation for many years.
But the ruling party is widely expected to maintain a majority of two-thirds in the lower building, which allows it to encourage legislative change without resistance.
Besides United Russia, 13 more parties are running in elections.
However, they are widely seen as opposition tokens making Kremlin offers.
On Saturday, Navalny Ally Leonid Volkov said, “Putin celebrated a big victory” after the technology giant “gave up under the squeeze of the Kremlin” but still asked the supporters to try to change the happy atmosphere of Russian leaders to “mourn”.
“In our battle between David and Goliath, we certainly still have the opportunity to launch a stone,” he wrote on the telegram.
The Putin Party will maintain the majority of parliament after the poll
