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Russia faces the last day of voting in

the parliamentary elections

with the ruling United Russia party as the sole favorite.

The Central Electoral Commission reported that

the turnout was 35.7%

one hour after the schools opened on this third election day.

The highest turnout is registered in the republics of Chechnya and Tuva: 73.6% and 66.9%, respectively, had voted at noon.

To encourage participation, the authorities have resorted to

raffles of various kinds

.

The vice president of the Moscow Chamber of Commerce of Industries, Vladimir Mojte, announced before the elections that the prizes drawn in the Russian capital would

include 21 one-bedroom apartments, 100 cars and vouchers of up to 1,000 euros.


This morning it was known that the Kremlin spokesman,

Dimitri Peskov,

has been awarded in one of the draws with 10,000 rubles (116 euros).

Peskov, who voted online last Friday, told Russia's Sputnik news agency that he had just heard the news.

"I'm not aware, I have to check," he commented.

The expected victory of the ruling United Russia party will be used by the Kremlin as proof of support for Vladimir Putin.

The president's electoral brand faces a drop in popularity ratings, but it

remains more popular than its closest electoral rivals,

the Communist Party and the nationalist LDPR party, two old formations that often back the Kremlin.

Independent election observation bodies such as Golos continue to report numerous voting violations: Ballots are stored overnight in

unsealed containers or in rooms without video surveillance.

The campaign has come loaded with controversy.

Many opposition candidates have not been authorized to participate in these elections.

The Kremlin denies a politically driven offensive and says people are being prosecuted for breaking the law.

Kremlin pressures

Google decided to remove the Navalny app from the Google Play store following threats of criminal prosecution from the company's employees.

So did Apple.

Now opponents accuse Apple and Google of giving in to pressure from the Kremlin.

Putin needs to keep his parliamentary 'supermajority', the same one that last year helped him change the law and be able to run for office again.

Today's is

the last national vote before the 2024 presidential elections

.

The president, who will turn 69 next month, has not said whether he will run but there is no indication that a successor has been prepared.

The deputies of the European Parliament

recommended to the EU not to recognize the results of these Russian elections

.

"The document is a typical example of interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state," declared Russia's representative to the European Union, Vladimir Chizhov.

To avoid crowds in schools, the Central Election Commission has extended voting for three days and authorized electronic voting in the cities of Moscow and Sevastopol, as well as in the Kursk, Nizhny Novgorod, Murmansk and Rostov-on-Don regions.

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