![]() ![]() In other regions, voters can only cast their ballot on Sunday. In the majority of the Russian regions and in the occupied regions of Ukraine, polls opened on Friday and the voting lasts for three days, concluding Sunday. There are also multiple votes for city and municipal councils across the country and races for a few vacant seats in the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament. In 16 Russian regions, voters are casting ballots for local legislatures. Governors in 20 other Russian regions are also vying for office this year. Sobyanin was appointed mayor in 2010 and has since won mayoral elections twice: in 2013, despite now-imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny running against him, and 2018. In Moscow, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin’s seat is up for grabs, although he is running for re-election again and is unlikely to lose a race in which all contenders come from Kremlin-backed parties. Voting for federal and local legislators is also underway on the Crimean peninsula, which the Kremlin annexed in 2014.īalloting in the occupied areas of Ukraine has been denounced by Kyiv and the West as a sham and a violation of international law. ![]() Russian authorities are also holding local elections in the four regions of Ukraine that Moscow annexed illegally last year - the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia provinces. Local elections kicked off in Russia this weekend in 79 regions, with voters are casting their ballots for governors, regional legislatures, city and municipal councils. ![]()
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