Vyacheslav Shumeiko, a candidate for municipal deputies, was detained in St. Petersburg. This was reported to OVD-Info by a member of the election commission of the municipal district "Island of the Decembrists" Carolina Kelkel. Shumeiko arrived at polling station No. 144 with his wife, where she was supposed to vote in accordance with the registration of his spouse. On one of the tables, he saw a propaganda newspaper, after which he removed it from the table.

In Moscow, near the city hall, Pussy riot participant Maria Alyokhina, Novaya Gazeta journalist Ilya Azar, Avtotzak Live journalist Maxim Kondratyev, member of the public support campaign for those involved in the “July 27 case” Masha Chernykh and others were detained. This was reported by the coordinator of the legal direction of OVD-Info, Alla Frolova.

The candidate for deputies of the Svetloyarsk District Duma from the LDPR Alexander Afonin ruined the car. This was reported on the website of Volgograd-News . It is reported that the unknowns pierced the tires in Afonin's car. “In the afternoon I drove up to the store to print a few forms. I spent 6-7 minutes there. I go out and see that there are 2 wheels on the car, on the front wheel - three holes with a knife, and on the back - one. I think this is due to the elections.

In Novopushkinsky Square in Moscow, seven volunteers were detained for distributing leaflets in support of Yegor Zhukov. This was reported in the telegram channel Avtozak Live. Activists and volunteers were wearing T-shirts with the symbols of the campaign to support the Higher School of Economics student Yegor Zhukov.

In Izhevsk, a candidate for deputy of the Council of Deputies of the Oktyabrskoye municipality from PARNAS, Svetlana Kuznetsova, was fired from her job. This was reported in a broadcast on the website “Idel. Realii" with reference to PARNAS. Kuznetsova worked as an accountant in the management company ZhK-Service. She learned about the dismissal on September 7, one day before the elections.

Updated 11:30 pm *Daria Polyudova and Kirill Kotov are being prosecuted under Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (repeated violation of the procedure for holding a mass event), Polyudova told OVD-Info. Igor Kuznetsov also has a protocol under Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the procedure for organizing a mass event).

Crimean Tatars Zevri Abseitov, Enver Mamutov, Rustem Abiltarov and Remzi Memetov, convicted in the first Bakhchisaray Hizb ut-Tahrir case, were transported from pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Rostov-on-Don. This was reported on the website “Crimea. Realities." Abseitov was transferred to IK No. 1 in the village of Kochubeevskoye, Stavropol Territory, Mamutov and Memetov were transferred to IK No. 11 in Mikhailovsk in the same region of Russia.

On the evening of September 7, in the Republic of Tuva, a bus with election observers and journalists who were going to work in the region's elections was fired upon. This is reported by "Voice". The bus was heading from the Krasnoyarsk Territory to observe the elections to the Supreme Khural of the republic. The Acting Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tuva, as well as a rapid response detachment, arrived at the scene. On the site "Siberia.

At the entrance to Penza, the police detained four supporters of Alexei Navalny, who were on their way to observe the elections in Penza. This was reported to OVD-Info by the coordinator of the Tambov headquarters of Navalny Diana Rudakova. Activists of Navalny's Tambov headquarters were detained: Rudakova herself, Alexander Sysoev, Nikolai Kopylov and Sergei Popov. The detainees were taken to police department No. 4. The police did not disclose the reasons and grounds for the detention.

On September 8, more than 50 elections are held in different regions - the heads of subjects of the federation and administrative centers, deputies of regional parliaments, municipal deputies. OVD-Info, with the support of the Movement for the Protection of Voters' Rights Golos, is broadcasting online on gross election violations associated with political persecution - expulsions from polling stations, detentions of observers, and their exclusion from polling stations.