Elections. According to the data at 17.00 Moscow time, as a whole in Russia, the appearance in the State Duma elections amounted to 54.8 percent. This was stated by Deputy Chairman of the CEC Nikolai Konkin at a briefing in the Central Election Commission, the broadcast of which is carried out by the Vesti TV channel. Earlier, Konkin suggested that the final level of appearance in the elections will exceed 60 percent.

A dog handler with a dog. Photo by RIA Novosti The Moscow police detained a drunk Muscovite for false information about the mining of polling stations. This was reported by RIA "Novosti" with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies of the city. "At 11.15, a drunken young man came to the school on Dubninskaya Street, the house of 36" A ", where there are immediately three polling stations. He said that a bomb was laid in the building.

Elizarovskaya station of the St. Petersburg metro. Photo from the site kommet.spb.ru The head of the office of the head of the government of Tuva is beaten in St. Petersburg by skinheads. According to Fontanka.ru, the human rights activist Ruslan Linkov said this to the agency of journalistic investigations. According to him, a woman on Saturday for about 14 hours went down to the subway and sat on a train.

Angel Merkel. Photo by ar The head of the German government, Angela Merkel, gave a critical assessment of the election campaign in Russia. As reported on the website of Deutsche Welle, she said this on Saturday in an interview with Deutschlandfunk radio station. “We saw how human rights activists were limited there to express their own opinion,” the Chancellor said, expressing regret that the OSCE experts would not take part in the process of observing the elections in Russia.

Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo by ar By 14.00 local time, 59.5 percent of voters took part in the Chechen Republic by 14.00. According to Interfax, this was announced by the chairman of the republican election commission of Ismail Baikhanov. This means that a referendum was held in the republic to change the constitution. To recognize the referendum, at least 50 percent of voters, plus one vote, should have voted.

Alisher Usmanov. Photo from the site pda.finiz.ru The owner of the Kommersant Publishing House Alisher Usmanov is unhappy that the scandalous interview of the Glaya FPG "Finance" Oleg Schwartzman was published in the newspaper of the same name.

Elections. Photo from Newsru.com Observers from several parties report numerous violations recorded by them in the elections to the State Duma. In particular, representatives from the Communist Party announced the facts of illegal agitation, as well as that in a number of regions observers are not allowed into plots. Many violations are associated with absenteeism.

Elections. Photo from Park.ru In the Kamchatka Territory and the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug, elections to the State Duma and local authorities began. Polling stations opened at 8 a.m. local time (23.00 Saturdays in Moscow). In total, up to 108 million Russians who have the right to vote can take part in the elections. For them, about 96 thousand polling stations will work in Russia, RIA Novosti reports. About 37 thousand people are included on the Chukotka lists of voters.

Handcuffs. Photo from the site www.gazeta.ru For an attempt to illegally campaign for one of the parties on Sunday night in Moscow, two young people were detained. As Interfax reports, the head of the Moscow City Woman Valentin Gorbunov announced this. “They tried to spread leaflets,” he said. “One of the young people was detained in the subway.

Nikolai Alekseev. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru Representatives of the Gay community were detained in Moscow at the polling station. As the Echo of Moscow reports, they came with reckoning certificates to the site where the mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov was supposed to vote. After they voted, they were taken to the police. “We did not do absolutely nothing illegal, only came to vote,” said Nikolai Alekseev, organizer of the gay parade in Moscow.

Elections. Frame "Vesti" Observers from the party of the right forces are not allowed to work at the polling stations of Moscow. As one of the observers, Alexander Zharov, said on the air of Echo of Moscow, the refusal to work at the polling station #402 was not argued. " “Everything is fine with the documents, there is a direction from the ATP,” he said. “They demanded a statement from me.

Kamchatka. Photo from the site www.vip-tour.net The representative of the Election Commission of the Kamchatka Territory told reporters the preliminary results of the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Territory. According to RIA Novosti, after processing 4 percent of the Bulletin "United Russia" receives 73 percent of the vote.

Leo Rubinstein with the book "Spirits of Time". Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru The poet and publicist Lev Rubinstein released the book " The Spirits of the Time ". On Sunday, he presented it at the Moscow Book Fair Non/Fiction. The book was published in the publishing house "Hummingbird". The collection included essays published in different years in the magazines "Result", "weekly magazine", "Politburo", "Big City", "Esquire", in the Internet publications Polit.ru and Ej.ru.

Samara. Photo from the site www.berg-as.ru In Samara, an activist of the public organization "Voice" Ilya Samorukov was detained and arrested for 15 days. According to Maria Dashenkova, the press secretary of the vote, he is also the organizer of the project for public monitoring of the State Duma in Samara and manages the European Commission for Enlightenment of Voters in Russia.

Polling station. Frame "Vesti" Representatives of the Communist Party recorded a number of violations during Exit Polls at polling stations ## 2816 and 2817 in the Dzerzhinsky district of Perm and the city of Dobryanka. According to Interfax with reference to the press service of the Perm branch of the Communist Party, the violations are that Exit Polls is carried out directly at the polling stations. Including people who have not voted yet.