An explosion occurred near the British embassy compound in the capital of Bahrain, Manama, the Associated Press reported on Sunday, citing the Arab kingdom's Interior Ministry. There were no reports of casualties. As noted in the department's statement, the explosion occurred inside a minibus parked near the territory of the British embassy. An investigation into the incident is underway, and the scene has been cordoned off.

Parliamentary elections in all Russian regions are taking place without any serious incidents or violations of the law, a representative of the press center of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on Sunday. "As of 12:00 Moscow time, no significant violations of public order or electoral legislation were recorded during the voting," the representative of the center said. He noted that security at polling stations is being provided by police officers.

The work of polling stations in Moscow on the day of elections of deputies of the State Duma of the sixth convocation ended at 20:00 on Sunday, according to data as of 18:00, the turnout of voters in the capital at the elections was 50.03%. The turnout was 1.3% less than the level of 2007, when it was 51.33%, in 2003 the turnout was 50.99%. In terms of voter turnout in Moscow by 6:00 p.m., the Sokol district was in the lead, with 65.07% of voters casting their ballots.

The Territorial Electoral Commission of Bashkiria has suspended the chairman of one of the polling stations in Ufa, whom observers suspected of stuffing several ballots into the ballot box. Deputy Chairperson of the Central Electoral Commission of the region Nailya Altynova told journalists about this. According to her, representatives of the prosecutor's office are working on the scene.

The voting of 1.8 million Russians registered abroad is proceeding in an organized manner and without significant violations, said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Denisov at a briefing at the Central Election Commission. Voting, according to him, is continuing at 324 polling stations in 122 countries around the world, and vote counting has already begun at 17 polling stations in the Asia-Pacific region.

Sergei Sobyanin voted at polling station #98 on ul. Nikolaeva, 5, next to the White House. Journalists writing about the Moscow mayor's office were invited to observe the process. In order not to turn the entire weekend into walking around polling stations, the day before I took an absentee ballot at my place of residence (precinct #2511 on Gzhatskaya, 6). I managed to arrive almost at closing time - at 17.50, there was no one except members of the election commission.

Reuters On election day, December 4, the resources "Map of Election Violations" at kartanarusheniy.ru, the website of the association "Golos" (golos.org) that supports it, the website of New Times (newtimes.ru) and "Slon.ru" continue to be unavailable. The websites of the magazine "Bolshoi Gorod", the election project "Anti-Carusel", the St. Petersburg information and political portal ZAKS.ru and PublicPost were also subjected to hacker attacks.

RIA Novosti In Vladivostok, as of 18:00, there were queues at the polling stations. The turnout in the State Duma elections was 42.46% (in the 2007 State Duma elections it was 35.25%). As of 20:56 local time, the figure remained unchanged - 42.46%, or 650,540 people. There are 1,532,066 people on the lists.

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According to preliminary data, citizens were issued more than 1.7 million absentee ballots for voting in the State Duma elections on December 4, said CEC member Sergei Danilenko. "We are roughly saying that more than 1 million 700 thousand absentee ballots were issued," Danilenko said. According to him, the final figure for the number of absentee ballots issued will be known after it is recorded in the protocols of the election commissions.

NIZHNY NOVGOROD - There are 2.709 million voters in the Nizhny Novgorod region, of which 1.046 million are in Nizhny Novgorod. There are 2,320 polling stations located at 1,958 sites in the region. Ballot processing complexes (BPC) are located at 123 polling stations in Nizhny Novgorod. At the moment, all the top officials of Nizhny Novgorod and the region have voted. Governor Valery Shantsev did it earlier than others, having voted at about 9 a.m.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his wife Svetlana voted in the State Duma elections at polling station #2634 in the building of Moscow school #1118. At 10:00 Moscow time, the Medvedevs arrived at the school building on Dovzhenko Street, 10. They went up to the voting room on the second floor, received their ballots using their passports, and went into the voting booths. The polling station where the presidential couple voted was equipped with an automatic ballot processing machine (KOIB).

ITAR-TASS Yesterday, from 8:00 to 20:00 local time, parliamentary elections were held in Russia. Vedomosti correspondents participated in the voting, and several were present as accredited journalists and observers. We published their reports, as well as the reports of our special correspondents in various cities and towns, in text broadcast mode.

All central squares of Moscow are still under increased police protection. On Sunday, the day of the State Duma elections, police officers restricted access to Manezhnaya and Red Squares, the Okhotny Ryad shopping mall was closed, and the underground passage from the Okhotny Ryad metro station to the Alexander Garden was blocked. According to law enforcement officers on duty at the scene, the shopping center will remain closed until Monday.

Republican presidential candidate and former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain has suspended his campaign following allegations of sexual harassment and extramarital affairs. "I... made that decision. Of course, I'm sorry that we had to make that decision. But I will continue to be the voice of the American people," Kaine told voters Saturday. In fact, Kane's statement means that he is giving up on further election campaigning.