Opposition candidates are leading in 19 out of 45 constituencies in the elections to the Moscow City Duma, Interfax reports, citing preliminary data from the City Election Commission (MGIK). After processing more than 20% of the protocols, candidates from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation win in 12 districts, representatives of A Just Russia in four districts, and Yabloko in three districts.

In all 16 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, where gubernatorial elections were held on September 8, the acting heads of regions retain their leading positions.

The Kremlin defended governors (including Beglov), but lost in parliaments Alexander Shcherbak / TASS / Scanpix / Leta A single voting day was held in Russia - several dozen election campaigns of different levels were held throughout the country, including governors in 16 regions, and Muscovites voted in elections to the city parliament.

According to the data obtained after processing 0.1% of the protocols, the current head of the city, Alexander Beglov, is leading in the elections for the governor of St. Petersburg. Beglov has 83.61% of the vote, Mikhail Amosov (Civil Platform) - 11.23% of the vote, Nadezhda Tikhonova (Fair Russia) - 5.16%. As Fontanka.ru writes in a telegram, according to exit polls, Beglov is gaining 56% of the vote, while almost 45% of respondents refused to say who they voted for in the elections.

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The Civil Society Development Foundation ( FORGO ) will not publish exit poll data for the Moscow City Duma elections. "We received a high percentage of refusals to answer at the exit from polling stations. In some districts, the refusal rate exceeded 70%. In other districts, it is at the level of 45-50%. All this suggests that publishing such unbalanced and contradictory data would be an unprofessional act," ForGO wrote on its Telegram channel .

In the elections of deputies of the Legislative Assembly of Khabarovsk Krai, the LDPR is leading by a large margin according to party lists. According to the processing of about a third of the protocols, the LDPR received 56.2% of the votes, the CPRF - 16%, and United Russia - 13.4%. There are 36 deputies in the Khabarovsk Krai Duma, 12 of whom are elected by proportional representation, 24 by single-mandate constituencies.

Meduza journalist Ivan Golunov has become a laureate of the Anna Politkovskaya Tuning Fork Prize. The award ceremony was held on September 8 - the International Day of Solidarity of Journalists - in the Great Hall of the Conservatory in Moscow. "Tuning Fork" is awarded for professional excellence, for courage and consistency in upholding the principles of freedom of speech, for honesty, dignity, civic responsibility and human compassion.

The CEC published the first data on the vote count in the elections of governors of the Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Kurgan regions and the head of Altai. In all these regions, according to the data after processing less than 1% of the protocols, acting governors are in the lead. So, in the Chelyabinsk region, Alexei Teksler is gaining 67.78% of the vote, in second place is Konstantin Natsievskiy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation with 14.59%.

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More than 92% of registered voters took part in the Internet voting in Moscow, the Public Headquarters for Controlling the Elections to the Moscow City Duma announced. “Let's see when was the last time more than 80% of us took part in the elections, except for the era of the USSR. This does not happen in democratic countries. This is considered a sign of a totalitarian regime. And here the democratic format, because the system has changed. This is very cool.

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Roskomnadzor revealed the distribution of political advertising during the elections in Russia in the Google search engine, Facebook social network and Youtube video hosting. “These actions can be seen as interference in the sovereign affairs of Russia and obstruction of the holding of democratic elections in the Russian Federation,” Roskomnadzor said in a statement.

Vitaly Ankov / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta In St. Petersburg, a sharp jump in the turnout took place. At the election of the Governor of St. Petersburg, 16.26% of voters voted at 15:00-this is a little less than on the vote of 2014 (19.76%). At the same time, at 12 o’clock in the city only 6.61% of voters came to sites, and this is half as much as in the last election. There are no such suspicious jumps in Moscow.