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What happened on the day of September 21st. Short
* The Central Election Commission distributed seats among the parties that entered the State Duma. United Russia won 324 out of 450 seats, 19 fewer than before. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation got 57 seats, A Just Russia - 27, LDPR - 21, New People - 13. Civic Platform, Motherland and the Party of Growth received one mandate each, and five more were self-nominated. Thus, United Russia will have a constitutional majority in the lower house of parliament.
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Independent electoral analyst Sergei Shpilkin showed the first analysis of the official results of the elections to the State Duma. He displayed in two graphs data for 96,840 polling stations (107.9 million voters out of 109.2 million). According to the first graph, a “tooth” is observed at a turnout of 95% - a sharp increase in votes for United Russia. Shpilkin suggested that the shaded area on the graph - between the official EP data and the thin line - gives the size of the stuffing, which could be about 13.8 million votes. The analyst believes that the anomalous growth for the party may be due to the Moscow electronic voting. The second graph shows that in the non-rigged polling stations turnout could average 38%, while ER could get 31-33% of the vote.
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VKontakte, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, blocked the accounts of several supporters of the politician Alexei Navalny on the territory of the Russian Federation. Diana Rudakova and Andrey Prokudin, ex-coordinators of Navalny* headquarters in Tambov and Tver, turned to human rights activists from the Network Freedoms project. In addition, the page of the ex-head of the politician's headquarters in Kazan, Elvira Dmitrieva, who died two years ago, was blocked. The accounts of Navalny's supporters from Khabarovsk and Rostov-on-Don, Alexei Vorsin and Ksenia Seredkina, are also unavailable. The press service of VKontakte noted that the social network had previously received two fines in the amount of 1.5 million rubles, and a repeated violation could lead to a fine of one tenth of the annual revenue.
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Google employees criticized management for deleting the Smart Voting application and spread memes with Vladimir Putin on internal forums. According to employees, the decision to remove the Alexei Navalny app is a concession to the Kremlin, and also violates the internal policy that the interests of some users cannot be higher than others.
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British police have named a third Russian who is believed to be involved in the poisoning of former GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. GRU General Denis Sergeev, who, according to British law enforcement officers, used the pseudonym "Sergey Fedotov", was charged with attempted murder. Sergeyev was put on the wanted list. Investigators believe that “Fedotov” repeatedly met during the events of 2018 in central London with two other Russians who had previously been charged with poisoning the Skripals – “Ruslan Boshirov” and “Alexander Petrov” (Anatoly Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin).
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The ECHR found Russia responsible for the death of former FSB colonel Alexander Litvinenko and ordered it to pay 100,000 euros to the ex-colonel's widow. The European Court held that the Russian authorities violated Litvinenko's right to life and failed to conduct an effective investigation into his murder. The ECtHR found that Litvinenko's poisoners acted "not of their own free will, but at the direction of another person", and used the radioactive isotope polonium-210, which can only be accessed with the help of the state, to kill. The court noted that only Russia could be involved in the death of the former FSB colonel.