Several arsons in polling stations and attacks with paint on ballot boxes with ballot papers on the first day of the sham presidential election in Russia. A video showed an elderly woman setting a voting booth on fire.
Women and men also poured ink into urns in the Rostov region and in the Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia in the North Caucasus. The so-called election lasts until Sunday evening, when the last polling stations in Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg) on the Baltic Sea close.