In St. Petersburg, an observer was detained, who wrote on the ballot “No War”. Fontanka writes that a member of the election commission reported to it
At the polling station in St. Petersburg, where the elections of municipal deputies and the governor are held, the observer Marina Popova, who, as the Fontanka writes , lowered the ballot with a “pacifist statement”. Popova’s husband, who also reported her detention, told the OVD-info that no war was written on the ballot. The secretary of the election commission told Fontanka that the ballot was complicated, but then the inscription was opened and the inscription became visible.