New Facts: Election Commission opens State Duma voting
Russia opened three days of voting on Sept. 18 for the State Duma. The ballot fills all 450 seats and coincides with races for 11 regional governors. It is the first parliamentary election since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Polling is also being held in four Russian-occupied Ukrainian regions that Moscow claims to have annexed. About 111 million people are eligible to vote nationwide. Voting runs through Sunday.
Only parties backing President Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine are on the ballot. The first day saw drone attacks disrupt polling work in southern Russia and in occupied Ukraine. One polling station in the Krasnodar region was relocated.
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