The results of the elections to the State Duma of the 7th convocation. The history of elections to the State Duma in modern Russia

On March 18, the next, the seventh in the history of our country, national elections of the head of state took place in Russia. The next major federal elections (unless, of course, something extraordinary happens to the newly elected president during this time and his early re-elections are needed) will be elections to the lower house of the Russian parliament - the State Duma. Many are already interested in when these elections will take place, so we give a brief information about them. Elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation - in what year will the next elections to the Russian parliament take place, is it possible now to talk about the prospects for its composition.

How do elections to the State Duma take place and when were the last elections held

The State Duma in modern Russia (let's leave alone the experience of a hundred years ago) appeared 25 years ago, in 1993, with the adoption of the current Constitution. The first elections were held on December 12, 1993. Initially, the term of office of the Duma was four years, but the Constitution contained a special amendment regarding the first composition of the Duma - its term of office was two years and expired at the end of 1995.

The two-year term of office of the first composition of the modern Duma did not appear by chance. There were several reasons for this, one of them - the authors of the Constitution considered it desirable that the Duma be elected shortly before the next presidential election. Thus, firstly, it was possible to objectively understand the mood of the people six months before the election of the head of state, and this is a plus for all participants in the presidential election. Secondly, the elected president understood what kind of parliament he would have to work with throughout his entire term.

Thus, in December 1995, the second composition of the Duma was elected, and in the summer of 1996, presidential elections were held.

The term of office of both the State Duma and the President of Russia, according to the original text of the Constitution, was four years. Elections have always been held almost simultaneously.

In 2008, the first serious amendments in its history were made to the Constitution, and the terms of office of the State Duma and the President of Russia were extended. Moreover, for the State Duma, the period was increased by a year - and for the head of state by two years - up to six years.

Explaining this step, the Russian authorities spoke of the desire to get away from the provision that was originally provided for by the Constitution. If in the early 1990s it was convenient for parliamentary elections and presidential elections to be held simultaneously, 15 years later it was decided that this would lead to excessive politicization of society and it would be better if these elections were as far apart as possible in time relative to each other. .

The last elections to the State Duma in Russia were held in September 2016. At the moment, the seventh convocation of the modern State Duma is working, and this is the second convocation, the term of office of which is five years.

When will the next elections to the State Duma in Russia take place?

Thus, the next elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation will have to take place in September 2021 when the term of office of the current Duma expires.

Of course, the elections in 2021 will be held if the seventh composition of the Duma is finalized. Purely theoretically, according to the Constitution, the Duma can terminate its powers ahead of schedule if it is dissolved by the president. The Constitution gives the head of state such a right in the following cases:

  • if the State Duma rejects the candidacy of the Chairman of the Government (Prime Minister) three times, which the President submits for approval;
  • if the State Duma twice within three months expresses no confidence in the Government of Russia.

It is clear that such situations in the conditions of modern Russia are pure fantasy. Even in the 1990s, when the State Duma was really independent and oppositional, it never came to its dissolution by the president, all conflicts were somehow resolved without extreme measures. Now, when the Duma is absolutely obedient to the Presidential Administration, there is no doubt that its next composition will be finalized before the end of its term of office, all the more so. We can say with full confidence that the next elections to the State Duma will be held in 2021, in September.

What could be the next composition of the State Duma

Talking about the personal composition of the future Duma, which will be elected in the fall of 2021, is rather pointless at the moment. Three and a half years remain before these elections, and during this time the political situation in Russia can change very noticeably.

Even if we imagine the most conservative picture and assume that the same parties that are present in it today will enter the Duma, we should not forget at what age the leaders of some parties will be in 2021.

So, the head of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Gennady Zyuganov, will be 77 years old in 2021 (and by the end of the term of this Duma - 82). The leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, will be 75 years old in 2021, and 80 years old by the end of the term of the eighth convocation of the Duma. Even relatively young against their background, Sergei Mironov, who heads the Just Russia faction, will be 68 years old in 2021, and 73 years old by 2026.

Obviously, at least at the level of the leaders of the parties traditionally elected to parliament, we will have to face serious changes.

It is also not a fact that the Presidential Administration will be able to form the most loyal and obedient Duma in 2021. A lot can change in 3.5 years, and what political forces will have sufficient weight in society to get into parliament in 2021, now one can only guess.

00:00 RT completes the online broadcast of the single voting day. Thank you for being with us. Keep following the news on our website.

23:55 The RT broadcast is coming to an end. We present you the brightest moments of the election campaign: someone sang, someone remembered Hollywood films, someone bet on cats.

23:48 RT correspondent Yegor Piskunov summarizes the results of a single day of voting.

23:40 The latest figures at the moment: after counting 18.14% of the protocols, United Russia receives 49.22% of the votes, the Liberal Democratic Party - 15.92%, the Communist Party - 15.46%, A Just Russia - 6.49%.

23:25 "Fair Russia" recognizes the results of the elections to the State Duma, said party leader Sergei Mironov. “On the whole, the elections to the State Duma of the seventh convocation took place, A Just Russia has no reason to question the results as a whole,” he said.

23:01 According to the CEC, after counting 12.26% of the protocols of precinct election commissions, United Russia is in the lead in 144 single-mandate constituencies, Fair Russia - in six, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the Liberal Democratic Party - in four constituencies each.

22:49 Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin was pleased with the election result, but Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov believes that his party missed 8-10% of the vote because of twin parties, among which he named the Party of Pensioners and the Communists of Russia. This is reported by the TASS and RIA Novosti agencies.

22:30 According to Pamfilova, during the elections, only one observer in Russia was removed from the polling station by court order. It happened in the Sverdlovsk region, the citizen was drunk.

22:05 Video of speeches by Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev at the United Russia headquarters.

21:56 The head of the CEC, Ella Pamfilova, said that the elections to the State Duma were legitimate. “There is already complete confidence that the elections are being held quite legitimately. We have done a lot for this, ”TASS quotes Pamfilova.

21:48 The results of the elections to the State Duma showed that society votes for political stability, Vladimir Putin noted. “The situation is not easy, people feel it and want stability in society, the political system,” the Russian president said during a speech at the United Russia election headquarters.

21:42 Latest election data, according to CEC data.

21:35 Speaking at the headquarters of the United Russia party, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced her victory in the elections to the State Duma of the seventh convocation.

21:25 “The result is good,” Vladimir Putin commented on the results achieved in the elections by the United Russia party. The President of Russia summed up the results of the vote, speaking at the headquarters of United Russia.

21:17 The Public Opinion Foundation cites the following exit poll figures: United Russia is in the lead with 48.7% of the vote, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation - 16.3%, the Liberal Democratic Party - 14.2%, Fair Russia - 7.6%. According to the FOM, Yabloko gained 3.1%, the Pensioners' Party - 1.9%, Rodina - 1.8%, Communists of Russia - 1.5%, Growth Party - 1.4%, PARNAS - 1.0%, Greens - 0.7%, Patriots of Russia - 0.6%, Civic Platform - 0.2%, Civil Force - 0.1% of the vote.

21:08 According to exit polls, four parties are going to the State Duma. It is noted that "United Russia" is gaining 44.5% of the vote, the Liberal Democratic Party - 15.3%, the Communist Party - 14.9%, "Fair Russia" - 8.1%. The Communists of Russia are gaining 2.87% of the vote, the Russian Party of Pensioners for Justice - 2.19%, Rodina - 1.42%, Yabloko - 1.37%, the Growth Party - 1.12%, the Greens ”, - 0.82, Parnassus - 0.70%, Patriots of Russia - 0.69%, Civil Platform - 0.30%. The last place is currently occupied by "Civil Force" - 0.14%.

21:00 CEC announced the preliminary results of the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation. RT was broadcasting live.

21:00 Polling stations closed all over Russia. The last to vote were residents of the Kaliningrad region, the westernmost region of the country.

20:52 The US State Department has not yet commented on attempts by Ukrainian nationalists to prevent Russians from voting in elections in
State Duma in the building of the Russian Embassy in Kyiv.

“Today we cannot provide anything. Perhaps tomorrow, when the voting is over," TASS quoted the department as saying.

20:32 The voter turnout in the parliamentary elections at 18.00 Moscow time was below 50% in all regions of central Russia except the Belgorod region, RIA Novosti reports citing regional election commissions. In all 16 regions of the Central District, the turnout is lower than in the previous 2011 elections.

20:26 According to data provided by the Russian embassy in Kyiv, 369 Russian citizens voted in Ukraine.

20:17 The Moscow City Electoral Committee revealed 16 facts of the issuance of two ballots to people voting by absentee ballots. This was reported by TASS with reference to the chairman of the election commission, Valentin Gorbunov.

“There were signals, they checked, it concerned the fact that according to absentee certificates in a number of polling stations, voters were given two ballots. All signals were verified using video surveillance, 16 such cases were identified, ”Gorbunov said.

20:00 In all regions of Russia (except the Kaliningrad region) polling stations were closed.

19:57 Deputy Interior Minister of Russia Alexander Gorovoy said that the department had recorded facts of stuffing ballots at polling stations in the Rostov region.

“Together with colleagues from the Investigative Committee, we are documenting the facts of stuffing at polling stations No. 1958 and No. 1749, where the facts of ballot stuffing have been documented by means of objective control,” Gorovoy was quoted as saying by TASS.

19:49 Regional election commissions reported that the turnout in Crimea and Sevastopol at 18:00 Moscow time exceeded 40%, TASS reports.

19:45 In Moscow, they begin to prepare for the closing of polling stations.

19:35 The Moscow City Electoral Committee reports that as of 18:00, the voter turnout was 28.62%, RIA Novosti reports.

19:27 The first deputy head, Alexander Gorovoy, said that the department was checking reports of stuffing at polling stations in the Rostov region.

19:13 The head of the CEC, Ella Pamfilova, said that as of 18:00 Moscow time, the turnout was 39.37%.

19:12 Political parties are to blame for the low turnout of voters at polling stations in Moscow, said Valentin Gorbunov, chairman of the IPEC.

“I think that political parties are mainly to blame for such a turnout, which are not actively working with their voters,” the Moskva agency quotes Gorbunov as saying.

19:00 The Central Election Commission reports that as of 17:00 Moscow time, the maximum turnout was recorded in the following regions: Kemerovo region -78.96%, Tyumen region -74.3%, Chechnya-72.16%.

The minimum turnout was recorded in: Moscow region - 21.73%, Moscow - 19.86%, St. Petersburg - 16.12%.

18:56 Russian military serving in Syria voted in the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation. The polling station was opened at the Khmeimim airbase. The military personnel of the base, support units, the Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria and civilian personnel took part in the vote.

18:44 The head of the Public Headquarters for Election Monitoring in Moscow, Alexei Venediktov, asks to annul the results of municipal elections at one of the polling stations in the Shchukino district due to violations.

18:41 At one of the polling stations in Omsk, a citizen came to cast his vote dressed as Iron Man.

18:19 At one of the polling stations in Moscow, an inspection is being carried out after a report of mining. This was reported by the chairman of the Moscow City Electoral Committee Valentin Gorbunov.

18:00 Deputy Chairman of the CEC of Russia Nikolai Bulaev said that at 15:00 the voter turnout in the elections was 33%, TASS reports.

17:48 In the meantime, colleagues from the English-language television channel RT have prepared a story for their viewers about what exactly is important today.

17:36 The chairman of the electoral committee of the Sverdlovsk region, Valery Chainikov, said that Pokemon catchers at polling stations will face administrative responsibility.

“An attempt to catch a Pokemon is a violation of public order, obstruction of the work of the election commission, article 5.69 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. The police officers know this. One of us tried to catch him, they took him away, ”the chairman of the TASS commission quotes.

17:20 Samir Abdulkhalikov, a member of the Dagestan Electoral Committee, said that the commission was checking messages about ballot stuffing that appeared earlier on social networks.

“In general, the elections in Dagestan are going smoothly. Information about mass ballot box stuffing, which was published in various social networks, is being checked by us. We received one complaint from representatives of the Communist Party about violations in the territory of one of the polling stations in the city of Makhachkala. Naturally, we will deal with this issue. Not a single appeal will be left without consideration, ”RIA Novosti quotes a comment from a member of the electoral committee of the republic.

16:55 At a polling station in the Uvelsky district in Chelyabinsk region unknown person opened fire.

“According to preliminary data, the shooting took place in the Uvelsky district. There were no casualties. As a result of the shooting, only the glass broke, ”TASS quoted a source in the law enforcement agencies of the region as saying.

16:51 Ukrainian law enforcers drew up protocols on administrative offenses against three people detained at the Russian embassy in Kyiv, and then all three were released.

16:40 The Russian Consulate General in Odessa again blocks access to the diplomatic mission building, preventing Russians who vote from getting inside.

“About 10-15 people again do not let citizens of the Russian Federation into the territory of the consulate. The voting process is still blocked, ”TASS quoted a representative of the diplomatic mission as saying.

16:34 Another RT correspondent voted at polling station 1274 on Stromynka Street. There were few people in the area, he said. But in addition to the table with pies, there is also a tray with children's books. Our correspondents considered this site to be the most "open" - the voting booths here turned out to be without curtains.

16:25 Meanwhile, an RT correspondent told how he voted at polling station 2765, located in the capital's Shuvalov gymnasium in western Moscow. He claims that there is a real full house here: both the elderly and the young, and middle-aged voters. At the entrance to the building you are greeted with a pleasant smell of fresh pastries, on the "delicious tables" - pies with meat - for 40 rubles and with potatoes - for 30. Hot tea is poured for 5 rubles.

16:10 Permanent Representative of Russia to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich said that Moscow is waiting for a report on attacks on Russian polling stations in Ukraine.

15:49 Deputy head of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation Nikolai Bulaev said that the department is preparing a request to the Ministry of Internal Affairs demanding that materials with exit poll data be removed from social networks.

“The law prohibits within 5 days before the voting day, as well as on the voting day. The legal department of the rapid response group, having analyzed what is available, will prepare a request to the Ministry of Internal Affairs on this matter with a statement to the author of the posted material, and a demand has been sent to remove this material, remove it where it is currently posted, ”RIA Novosti quotes the words Bulaev.

15:32 The Russian Embassy in Ukraine reports that about 100 Russians voted at the polling station in Kyiv.

15:20 The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Altai Territory does not comment on reports of possible violations during the voting in the elections to the State Duma.

“While we leave this issue without comment, the information will be later,” RIA Novosti quoted the agency as saying.

15:12 The Central Election Commission claims that those who report on “carousels” during the voting are “trying to attract additional attention to themselves” - the facts of violations have not yet been confirmed. This was stated in an interview with RT by the deputy chairman of the CEC of Russia, Nikolai Bulaev.

15:08 The chairman of the electoral committee of the Rostov region, Sergei Yusov, told Ella Pamfilova that a possible attempt to stuff ballots was being investigated at one of the polling stations.

14:55 However, let's not limit ourselves to news from Moscow and Kyiv - after all, elections are held throughout Russia. In Magas, for example, the head of Ingushetia, Yunus-bek Yevkurov, voted today. Yevkurov trusted his children, Itar, Ramazan, Dali, and Magomed, to drop the ballots into the ballot box.

14:30 Many of the Russians who came to the Russian embassy in Kyiv for the State Duma elections are leaving without voting. An RT correspondent reports this from the scene.

14:26 112 Ukraine reports that the Kyiv police detained a man who beat a Russian at a polling station in the embassy.

14:22 The head of the Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, voted in the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the VII convocation, RIA Novosti reports.

14:12 The press service of the Svoboda party reported that in Kyiv, when trying to block the Russian embassy and a polling station, its deputy Volodymyr Nazarenko was detained, 112 Ukraine reports.

14:09 Ukrainian radicals are shouting through megaphones to Russian voters that each of them is an “accomplice in crime” and “blood will be on their hands,” an RT correspondent in Russian reports from the scene.

14:05 Andrey Nesterenko, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said that Ukraine had promised to take additional measures to protect the Russian polling station in Kyiv.

13:54 The interlocutor of TASS denied the information that there were two attackers.

13:47 A citizen who threatened to detonate a bomb at a polling station was taken to the police department for investigation, TASS reports. According to the agency, a dummy bomb was seized from the detainee. No explosive devices were found on him. The polling station is operating normally.

13:35 The second provocateur, according to preliminary data, barricaded himself inside the polling station in Armenian Lane in the center of Moscow.

13:28 Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that one of the provocateurs who threatened to blow up the polling station had been detained.

13:10 “According to preliminary information, an unknown man entered the polling station in Armenian lane, who threatens to explode", - RIA Novosti quotes a source in the law enforcement agencies of Moscow.

13:03 A man with a suspected explosive device walked into a polling station in downtown Moscow.

12:57 Russian President Vladimir Putin voted in the elections to the State Duma of the country.

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12:51 The only Russian on the International Space Station, Anatoly Ivanishin, voted in the elections to the State Duma. Voting was carried out through a proxy, deputy commander of the cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko.

12:42 Representatives of the "Right Sector" ( extremist organization banned in Russia) tried to disrupt the voting in the elections to the State Duma of Russia in Odessa.

According to RIA Novosti, the radicals did not allow two people to enter the consulate, blocking their passage. After a small scuffle, the police detained two people.

12:37 The entrance to the Russian embassy in Kyiv is still blocked. This is reported from the scene by an RT correspondent in Russian. One of the provocateurs was detained.

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12:28 A Russian who came to vote in the elections to the State Duma was beaten up near the Russian embassy in Kyiv. This is reported from the scene by an RT correspondent in Russian.

12:12 Ukrainian Minister Georgiy Tuka said that criminal cases would be opened against the organizers of voting in the Russian State Duma elections in Crimea, 112 Ukraine TV channel reports.

12:03 In the Kamchatka Territory and the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, polling stations for the elections to the State Duma of Russia have closed, and the counting of votes has begun.

12:00 Ella Pamfilova said that against the authors of statements about the "carousels" with absentee ballots, which allegedly take place in today's voting, lawsuits for libel can be filed, RIA Novosti reports.

Tatyana Moskalkova, Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, also confirmed that no violations were recorded in the Moscow region.

11:45 One of the men kept a large dog on a leash and did not let voters who intended to vote in the Russian State Duma elections enter the building.

11:37 Three people, including Verkhovna Rada deputy from the Svoboda faction Igor Miroshnichenko, blocked the entrance to the Russian embassy in Kyiv

11:23 Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov voted at polling station No. 142, while the leader of the Just Russia party Sergei Mironov voted at polling station No. 73 in Moscow, RIA Novosti reports.

11:12 Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Special Representative of the President of Russia for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport Sergei Ivanov voted at polling station No. 90 at Moscow School No. 87, RIA Novosti reports.

11:08 Deputy Chairman of the CEC Nikolai Bulaev announced turnout of more than 10% of voters as of 11:00 Moscow time.

10:50 Ella Pamfilova urged Russian citizens to come to the polls

“Dear citizens of Russia, come! The choice is wide - 14 parties, ”RIA Novosti quotes the head of the CEC.

10:36 Rashid Temrezov was elected head of Karachay-Cherkessia.

10:35 The Election Commission of Chechnya reports that approximately 18% of voters have voted in the elections so far, TASS reports.

10:26 Ella Pamfilova, commenting, said that the elections in the region could be cancelled.

“Now, so that there are no speculations, we are dealing with the situation that has developed in the Altai Territory. I received all the information directly. If those facts... are confirmed, we will take the most serious measures, even if there are grounds, we will initiate criminal cases and consider the advisability of canceling the elections ”, — quotes the words of Pamfilova RIA Novosti.

10:22 Recall that elections to the lower house of parliament are held according to a mixed system. According to the party lists, 225 deputies will be elected and another 225 will be elected by the majoritarian system.

10:15 The head of the CEC of the Russian Federation, Ella Pamfilova, said that a criminal case could be opened on the fact of violations during the voting in the Altai Territory, RIA Novosti reports.

10:13 The parties "United Russia", the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the Liberal Democratic Party announced that they would hold press conferences on the results of the elections at the TASS agency on Monday, September 19.

9:51 At the same time, in North Ossetia, the parliament elected Vyacheslav Bitarov as head of the republic.

9:37 RIA Novosti reports that the chairman of the LDPR party Vladimir Zhirinovsky already voted in the elections to the State Duma of Russia in the polling station on Matveevskaya Street in Moscow. The politician declined to comment.

9:29 The Russian diplomatic mission in the United States reports that voting in the elections to the Russian State Duma in the United States will take place at 13 polling stations: eight of them will be specially opened in cities where there are no Russian diplomatic missions and consulates.

9:26 TASS reports that Yabloko candidate Vladimir Ryzhkov announced that falsifications are being prepared in the 39th Barnaul constituency.

“It became known to me that a scheme of the so-called “cruise voting” is being prepared in Barnaul,” the politician of the agencies quotes as saying.

  • Broadcasting images from surveillance cameras installed at polling stations on a monitor at the Central Election Commission on a single voting day.
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9:23 The head of the electoral committee of the Republic of Crimea, Mikhail Malyshev, said that all polling stations were opened on the territory of the peninsula. Elections to the lower house of the Russian parliament are being held in Crimea for the first time.

“1,207 polling stations have been formed on the territory of the Republic of Crimea. They all opened on time. The situation is calm, ”RIA Novosti quotes the functionary.

8:51 The Russian Consulate General in Odessa told RIA Novosti that the voting on the territory of the diplomatic mission was proceeding without incident.

Experts predict that after the presidential elections in 2018, the reform of the political system will begin

Photo: Vladimir Afanasiev / Parliamentary Newspaper

Leveling the competitiveness of parties will become one of the main directions of the reform of the political system in Russia. And one of her vectors will be the consolidation of parties. This was stated by the participants of the meeting of the Parliamentary Newspaper Expert Club, which took place on October 12.

"Multisubjectivity" instead of manual control

The moderator of the Parliamentary Newspaper Expert Club, a political scientist, said that the reform of the political system is overdue, since the existing mechanism for forming the Russian parliament has successfully completed its task of cutting off populist groups from the legislative branch. And, according to him, the drop in voter turnout, which was noted by political scientists on a single voting day on September 10, is “reasonable voter behavior.” The expert believes that the substantive difference of the future reform is that the regime of personal power with one, albeit an excellent leader, will be replaced by "multi-subjectivity".

“The mechanism for making collegial decisions will be stronger than manual control,” Markov said about one of the reform options.

Mikhail Emelyanov. Photo: Igor Samokhvalov / Parliamentary Newspaper

Also, according to him, a scenario is quite real when political parties in Russia become a platform for the integration of government and big business. For example, he explained, if in some city there is businessman No. 1, then there is also businessman No. 2, who will always be in conflict with the first. Each of them needs its own political support, its own party - such a system works in dozens of countries around the world. In Russia, for the time being, business is placing more emphasis on supporting governors or mayors than deputies. The political scientist believes that the situation should change in favor of the parties.

The voter does not go to the polls, because he is sure that all parties in Russia are the same, and voting is necessary "for show", said the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on State Building and Legislation, a deputy from the Just Russia faction. The parliamentarian is convinced that the reform of the political system in Russia is impossible without proposals from the parties themselves. According to him, some people in the systemic opposition have been talking about this for a long time, and there are more and more such people.

Ivan Abramov. Photo: Igor Samokhvalov / Parliamentary Newspaper

“No one will break parties over the knee - such a reform will not restore the trust of voters. I think the authorities will mark the path to reform, so that the parties move on it themselves,” the legislator noted.

And now, according to Mikhail Yemelyanov, it is necessary to create a coordinating council for opposition parliamentary parties - this will make it easier to promote initiatives. Especially since, for example, the introduction of a progressive tax scale in Russia is supported by all three opposition Duma factions. Therefore, the union of A Just Russia, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the deputy believes, is “not such a fantastic idea.”

Towards bipartisanship

The reform of the political system will begin immediately after the presidential elections in Russia in March 2018, experts are convinced. And we will hear proposals on how to implement changes already during the pre-election statements of presidential candidates - the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Regional Policy and Problems of the North and the Far East, a deputy from the LDPR faction, is sure of this.

“The demand for a strong opposition has already been formed in society. And the candidate who formulates it will have a great chance of winning,” he said.

Konstantin Babkin. Photo: Igor Samokhvalov / Parliamentary Newspaper

And the parliamentarian sees the essence of the reform in the enlargement of political parties. At the same time, the parliamentarian noted: if the current electoral legislation would work one hundred percent, then the question of the majority party would always be open.

Experts agree that the emergence of a “second major party” along with United Russia will make it possible to get away from a situation where the interests of a huge number of Russians are not expressed in any way during elections. A political strategist Andrey Kolyadin noted: the authorities will not give a signal for reform if there is no specific project to change the political system. As they say, there is no project - there are no solutions.

Andrey Kolyadin. Photo: Igor Samokhvalov / Parliamentary Newspaper

Meanwhile, not everyone is sure that the reform of the political system will begin in 2018. But in 2021, the State Duma will be formed according to a different principle - few people doubt this. In particular, this opinion was expressed to the Parliamentary newspaper by the head of the Party of Affairs Konstantin Babkin.

“Elections will become more competitive, there will be more competition. In any case, our party feels the desire to suppress our political activity, and we really hope for it,” he said.

Some note the turnout is below the usual levels for Russia, however, political scientists say that our country keeps within the framework of the global trend. “(Today’s) turnout is absolutely normal if we are talking about global trends. It absolutely fits into the parameters that we can observe in the countries of the West, in countries with a democratic system,” political analyst Anton Khashchenko told TASS. He also drew attention to the fact that today's elections in Russia fell on September - a rather warm month, when many citizens are still on vacation. “Even making an amendment to this, we see that the turnout is very decent,” the expert noted.

As of 11:42 p.m., the CEC processed 20% of the ballots.
The rating of the party in power, United Russia, is approaching 50% - its current result is already 49.82%.

The fourth place is still held by A Just Russia - 6.45%.

"Communists of Russia" - 2.69%
Party of Pensioners - 1.88%
Party "Motherland" - 1.4%
"Apple" - 1.38%
Growth Party - 1.03%
Green Party - 0.73%
"Patriots of Russia" - 0.69%
PARNAS - 0.64%
"Civil Platform" - 0.26%
"Civil Force" - 0.13%

Someone from the election commission at one of the polling stations got tired and lay down to take a nap.

The celebrations have already begun at the headquarters of United Russia. Party functionaries treat journalists with white and red wine.

At the same time, in the SR they hope for the success of their single-members. Speaking about possible appointments in the State Duma, Mironov noted that the committee on housing policy, most likely, will again be headed by Khovanskaya. “It is still difficult to talk about other appointments, we will wait for the votes to be counted,” Mironov said.

Sergei Mironov, leader of the Just Russia party, has just spoken. In his opinion, the relatively low result of the SR, which is shown by the first calculations, is associated with a low turnout.
“Many people did not go to the polls because they no longer believe in the electoral system, they believe that their votes will not be counted,” Mironov said. He also noted that 15% of the votes of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the "Fair Russia" was "eaten" by dwarf parties, which scored less than 3%. “They essentially deceived their voters, they knew that they did not have support, but they went to the polls, as a result, the votes of the people they persuaded to vote went to United Russia,” Mironov said.

In single-mandate constituency No. 206, where the main struggle is between Gennady Onishchenko and Dmitry Gudkov, 28% of the ballots have already been counted. So far, Gudkov is behind by 2.5 thousand votes.

A pogrom took place in the village of Gotsatl in the Khunzakh district of Dagestan, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a representative of the precinct election commission. He clarified that representatives of one of the candidates for deputies provoked a conflict, and also staged a fight.
“They said that there was a stuffing of ballots, they started filming. The proposal to stop filming resulted in a conflict, a fight broke out, ”said the source of the agency. According to him, after a fight, a group of people burst into the room and started a pogrom.

At the moment, employees of the prosecutor's office are working at the scene of the incident.

At the headquarters of Dmitry Gudkov, the mood is combative. There is information that the gap from Onishchenko is minimal. The numbers vary. Now information is spread that the gap is several thousand votes, then in general several hundred. And most importantly, there is an understanding of where these votes come from. “We need to wake up the Americans,” Gudkov half-jokes. We are talking about Russian citizens living in the United States. They have yet to make their choice.

In Sevastopol, according to the last exit poll, 55.42% of voters voted for United Russia, 16.9% for the Liberal Democratic Party, 12.9% for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, 7.4% for A Just Russia, and 4 for the Growth Party. 56%, "Motherland" - 0.82%, the Russian Party of Pensioners for Justice - 0.59%, KPMR - 0.14%, "Yabloko" - 0.14%.

Difficult nights in Rostov: there are so many unused ballots that the members of the commission decided to use a hatchet instead of scissors.

The headquarters of United Russia also begins to empty. According to the correspondent of Gazeta.Ru, the speaker of the previous State Duma, Sergei Naryshkin, is no longer at the party headquarters.

And here is the first milestone - 10% of all votes were processed.
United Russia is in the lead with 45.95%.
Second place is still for the Liberal Democratic Party - 17.40%. The third is occupied by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation with a score of 16.77%. "Fair Russia" keeps with the result of 6.35%.

Other parties still remain with a result below 5%, more precisely, they did not even score 3%.

"Communists of Russia" - 2.84%
Party of Pensioners - 2.08%
Party "Motherland" - 1.44%
"Apple" - 1.36%
Growth Party - 1.07%
Green Party - 0.79%
"Patriots of Russia" - 0.73%
PARNAS - 0.68%
"Civil Platform" - 0.28%
Civil Force - 0.14%

In "Fair Russia" everyone crowded around the screen with the broadcast of "Russia 1", there are proposals to open a sweepstakes. It can be seen that they are disappointed with the first results, but still do not lose hope.

Zhirinovsky left the headquarters of the Liberal Democratic Party, saying goodbye how nervous that night would be. The journalists leave the headquarters. Only reporters remained - to record stand-ups.
The latest data from the LDPR call center at 20.00: 476 complaints, including 36 stuffing, 32 non-admission of observers, 24 deliveries.

In the photo: Pamfilova explains to state television that the CEC has done a lot to increase confidence in the elections.
By the way, the host of "Russia 1", reading out the interim results, ignored PARNAS. As if there is no such party.

Putin saw in the election results the desire of Russians for stability: “It’s difficult, hard, but people still voted for United Russia.”

In PARNAS "the mood is not very positive," Kasyanov told reporters. It's understandable.

At the time of counting, 8.00% of the protocols "Motherland", "Civic Platform" and "Party of Growth" pass to the Duma in single-member districts - each receives one seat. It is reported by Interfax.

“If we take second place, we will celebrate in the small hall. We have a male choir! Zhirinovsky says. - There will be no champagne, not even Pepsi-Cola. We don't drink."

Zyuganov called United Russia's victory false and lamented that the rating of the Russian president was not spared, as the party in power "leaned against him."

According to the exit poll of the Center for Applied Research and Programs PRISP (Moscow), the United Russia party and Dmitry Belik are leading by a wide margin in the elections in Sevastopol.
According to exit polls - polls of voters at the exits from polling stations, as of 20:00 on September 18, 2016, the votes of Sevastopol residents were distributed as follows:

Dmitry Belik - 36.4%;
Vladimir Komoyedov - 16.6%;
Oleg Nikolaev - 14.9%;
Ilya Zhuravlev - 9.9%;
Mikhail Bryachak - 3.2%.

Zhirinovsky compared the parties that scored half a percent with cyclists-mushroom pickers. And the parliamentary parties - with "KamAZ", which drags tons of cargo.

The communists are clearly offended by the possible loss of the Liberal Democratic Party. Zyuganov said that he was conducting a parallel count of votes, the correspondent of Gazeta.Ru reports from the headquarters of the Communists.
“We don’t believe in any “fake FOMs,” the communist is offended. According to him, "the presidential administration drags the LDPR into second place," and all competing parties "baked in the presidential administration."

At 21.26 Moscow time, 8.04% of the ballots were processed. United Russia holds the first place with a score of 45.09% of the vote.
The second place is currently occupied by the Liberal Democratic Party (17.88%), the third - by the Communist Party (16.97%). Seriously behind "Fair Russia", which won 6.28% of the vote.

All others are below the 5% threshold.

"Communists of Russia" - 2.88%
Party of Pensioners - 2.16%
Party "Motherland" - 1.45%
"Apple" - 1.37%
Growth Party - 1.09%
The Green Party - 0.81%
"Patriots of Russia" - 0.71%
PARNAS - 0.69%

"Civil Force" - 0.14%

Zhirinovsky: “We recognize elections. We have a chance to take second place. With the communists we go head to head. We are now one percent ahead."

According to exit polls, Yabloko ranks third in Moscow (11.23%) after United Russia (38.13%) and the Communist Party (13.15%).

Medvedev: “We can safely say that our party has won.<...>The result is good, our party will have the majority.”

At the CEC, all members of the commission, except for Pamfilova, went to drink tea, joking that her salary was "3% more", so let her stay on duty, the correspondent of Gazeta.Ru reports. Pamfilova was pleased with such accuracy. Now he is discussing with Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova. The Ombudsman, a native of A Just Russia, proposed in the future to make an insert in the passport, which is filled out when voting - such a mechanism will exclude multiple voting. In addition, Moskalkova complained about the voting process of Russians in Ukraine.

Putin spoke with an observer from the United Russia:

- Violations, as I understand it, not a lot?

- Almost none.

Putin and Medvedev are at the headquarters of United Russia right now.

Photo from our correspondent from the Central Election Commission.

We remind you, dear readers, that the data provided by VTsIOM and FOM are the results of public opinion polls, and not the final results. They, as Pamfilova said, can change "in the most drastic way."

FOM:
EP - 49.4%
Communist Party - 16.3%
LDPR - 14.3%
SR - 7.6%
"Apple" - 2.6%
PARNAS - 0.8%
Rodina - 1.6%
"Communists of Russia" - 1.5%
Party of Pensioners - 1.9%
Green Party - 0.6%
"Civil Platform" - 0.2%
Growth Party - 1.2%
"Civil Force" - 0.1%
"Patriots of Russia" - 0.6%

VTsIOM:
EP - 44.7%
Communist Party - 14.9%
LDPR - 15.3%
SR - 8.1%
"Yabloko" - 3.4%
"Communists of Russia" - 2.7%
Rodina - 2.3%
Party of Pensioners - 2%
Growth Party - 1.7%
PARNAS - 1.2%
Green Party - 0.9%
"Patriots of Russia" - 0.8%
"Civil Platform" - 0.3%
"Civil Force" - 0.2%
1.7% - spoiled

At the headquarters of the Liberal Democratic Party, journalists are waiting for Zhirinovsky's speech. In A Just Russia, in anticipation of exit polls, they have already begun to drink, toasts are heard for justice. However, our correspondent notes, it is not yet clear whether they drink with joy or with grief.

Pamfilova talks about possible provocations at the stage of counting the elections, and says with a laugh that there was no order for turnout. He calls those who voted "true citizens", and those who did not vote "let them take offense at themselves later."

Pamfilova speaks of the only case in the whole of Russia of the removal of an observer. In the Sverdlovsk Region, an observer was removed by a court decision: “I didn’t knit a bast.”
She also said: “There were no specific facts that would allow us to speak about the illegitimacy of the elections.” In her opinion, there are no serious reasons to be disappointed in the elections, however, one cannot say that the elections are held "sterile".

“Exactly in 15 minutes the whole country will see the counting of votes,” said Bulaev from the CEC. Pamfilova asks to do so that a minute before 9 pm "she fell silent."

The turnout in the elections in Russia at 18.00 is 40.46%.

Oleg Melnikov, a self-nominated single-mandate member from Dagestan, tells Gazeta.Ru that he has just been attacked by about 50 strong men near PEC 1019 in Makhachkala.
“They attacked and stole the phone. Thanks to the police officers who recaptured me,” the candidate says.

The results of the elections in Shchukino will not be taken into account: a member of the precinct election commission issued ballots for voting in municipal elections to conscripts, which is contrary to the law.

Members of the commission extinguish unused ballots - for this, on the sheet with answer options, the lower left corner must be cut off.

Vladimir Vasiliev, head of the UR faction in the State Duma, arrived at the information center of the UR headquarters: “We set the task of updating the party. And the events that will now take place will even shock some.” But there is no other way for the party, he said.

Both Putin and Medvedev will come to the center of the United Russia executive committee, a Gazeta.Ru correspondent reports. It is not yet known whether they will perform together - a la Manezhnaya Square in 2011 - or separately.
United Russia occupies two adjacent buildings in Banny and Pereyaslavsky lanes. On Bannoy there is the Central Executive Committee, in Pereyaslavsky there is a second building, it was there that the information center of the headquarters was located.

Turnout in St. Petersburg rose to 25.7%, still the lowest figure in the country.

Vladimir Putin will arrive at the United Russia campaign headquarters, RBC reports. This will happen during the counting of votes.

The headquarters of United Russia in Banny Lane is crowded, everyone is working and preparing to meet party leader Dmitry Medvedev, who will arrive after 21.00 and, obviously, will go to a specially prepared area on the street to communicate with the people. There are a lot of police in the alleys around the headquarters (the building of the Central Election Commission of the United Russia is located nearby), there is even a fire engine.
Outwardly, the press service employees are preparing for the working night: they say, it’s not clear yet, let’s sum up, and at one or two in the morning you can celebrate. But with a vigilant eye, the Gazeta.Ru observer noticed a waiter who carried a dish with small exquisite cakes through the headquarters into the closed part of the building.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed stuffing in the Rostov region, where teachers lined up a "wall".

The headquarters of the Liberal Democratic Party became noticeably livelier. Operators of all major TV channels arrived. Waiting for the arrival of Zhirinovsky.

Not a single online has been interfered with by cats, #truetruth.

The head of the CEC commented on the information about the shooting at the site in the Uvelsky district near Chelyabinsk, where a drunken man fired a shot at the windows of the PEC. Pamfilova said the shooting had nothing to do with the voting process and joked that the voters must have been actively arguing about the "political platform."

Pamfilova opposed the fact that voters photographed ballots at the polling stations.

The candidate from the "Communists of Russia" Darya Mitina complained about the PEC 27 in the center of Moscow. She says that when she received the ballots, she noticed in the notebook the names of the neighbors on the entrance, whose data were filled in with one hand. Mitina claims that both neighbors have been living in Germany for two years now and could not vote in person (she was informed about the alleged personal voting by the commission). The candidate complained to the CEC Ella Pamfilova.

In front of the building of the CEC of Russia, a site in Banny Lane was cordoned off: people, police, music. They say that Medvedev will come here soon.

Kuzmenko further stated that it was not a stuffing, but an absentee ballot:
“There is information that these actions are not really stuffing, it was an absentee vote. She (they called her) explained to us that she had an absentee ballot. She voted for herself."

Gazeta.Ru contacted Sergei Kuzmenko, chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod region election commission, and discussed the infamous PEC 2211 with him:
“We saw the story and have already created a working group together with law enforcement agencies on the road. We'll figure out. First, we need to view the full plot of the action of this person, if we establish that there really was a stuffing, then we do not exclude the annulment of the results at the site. We phoned this person, who allegedly carried out the "stuffing". The urn has not been sealed yet.”

The protesters outside the Russian embassy went home. Recall that the police detained three participants in the rally: Volodymyr Nazarenko, deputy of the Kyiv City Council from the nationalist Svoboda party, activist Mykhailo Kovalchuk, and a man who threw an egg at a man who came to vote.

Wasserman spoke at the headquarters of A Just Russia. It is curious that no one approached him after the performance to take a picture. Whereas a line of those wishing to take a photo lined up for the previously speaking balaerina Anastasia Volochkova.

The police detained Fontanka correspondent Denis Korotkov, who reported on the "carousel" at one of the polling stations.

PARNAS was mistakenly deleted from the ballots at one of the polling stations in the Kuban, Interfax reports.

“A serious case that could lead to the annulment of the voting results was recorded at polling station No. 2756 in the village of Rodnikovskaya, Kurganinsky district,” said David Kankiya, regional coordinator of the movement to protect voters “Golos”.

In the buffet at the headquarters of "A Just Russia" they offer alcohol, however, so far there are few people who want to drink, our correspondent reports.

Look, by the way, what certificates in some polling stations were given to voters who have recently reached the age of 18 and came to their first vote.

State Duma deputy from the Liberal Democratic Party Andrey Svintsov gave a general picture of the violations during the voting day, the correspondent of Gazeta.Ru reports.
“A few minutes ago the website of the Central Electoral Commission was broken. And we send them by car complaints in paper form with the signatures of Vladimir Zhirinovsky,” Svintsov began, after which he spoke about the violations themselves.

At PEC 427 in the Stavropol Territory and PEC 44 in the Kemerovo Region, voters were given ballot papers already marked with checkmarks. This was reported by observers from the Liberal Democratic Party. In Elektrostal, for unknown reasons, KOIBs suddenly began to break down - the call center of Zhirinovsky's party received several similar complaints at once.

Food as a reason to vote. Igor Korovin, chairman of the Astrakhan Regional Electoral Committee, said that the election commission had received complaints of sausage bribery from residents who voted in the elections, Interfax reports.
“They brought us a whole bag of sausages: a woman said that one of the candidates was delivering packages with food packages and his campaign products. Another complaint was against the same candidate: the man said that he was given 500 rubles. and asked to vote for a specific person," Korovin said.

The CEC announced the turnout at 18.00 in the country - 39.37%. They say that the figure will not change much now.

An observer at PEC 1180, Dmitry Mikhailover, told Gazeta.Ru that in the morning grandmothers in his district received a call on behalf of deputy Sergei Zheleznyak and were reminded that elections are coming today, do not forget to vote. It was for Zheleznyak that they did not campaign, but at first they introduced themselves that they were from him.

At the Russian embassy in Yerevan, only the State Duma was offered to choose, only one ballot was issued, the correspondent of Gazeta.Ru reports. Five booths, two opaque wooden bins that could have been left over from the 90s. The seven members of the commission probably did not have enough strength to do everything, therefore, at the entrance to the reception hall where the voting took place, people were stopped, lined up and launched one at a time when someone from the commission was released.
There were six people in line at two o'clock local time, then the same number came up. They voted on the basis of a foreign passport, although many of them took a Russian passport with them in advance. In general, the atmosphere is sedate and calm, everyone is very polite and hospitable, there were no “carousels” or anything suspicious. There was no buffet, and no gifts were provided for those who voted for the first time.

Russians from Sydney were forced today to elect deputies in the Barnaul district of the Altai Territory. Non-natives of this region, approaching the commission, began to giggle, but what to do - so distributed. In Japan, as far as is known, they also voted in the Altai Territory, but in a different region.

Pamfilova commented on the information about the shooting at the site in the Uvelsky district near Chelyabinsk, where a drunken man fired a shotgun at the windows of the PEC. Pamfilova said the shooting had nothing to do with the voting process and joked that the voters must have been actively arguing about the "political platform."

But the masters of conspiracy in Nizhny Novgorod at the site number 2211. We are waiting for a comment from the regulatory authorities.

Society correspondent Anna Semyonova wrote a whole essay about her polling station:
“At the entrance to the school, where two polling stations, 2448 and 2449, are located, loudspeakers were installed, from where the music of Retro-FM is cheerfully borne. The aroma of That Same School Pizza hovers in the premises, but a detailed reconnaissance in the dining room does not reveal even traces of it. Apparently, the more agile electorate has eaten up the pastries, and those who are late are invited to be content with sausages in dough, puffs and muffins, which, apparently, can also be used as throwing weapons. Friendly ladies sit on the commission, more like teachers from the same school. They ask for a passport, ask when the rest of the family members registered at the address are going to vote, and give out two papers. Voting booths, in contrast to those that were in the elections for the mayor of Moscow and the Moscow City Duma, do not give the opportunity to secludedly make a choice behind the curtain. By the way, they didn’t sell potatoes and carrots at bargain prices, as at that time. There are no electronic ballot boxes; ballots must be dropped into one of four ballot boxes. Observers managed to notice only two: a girl in her thirties and a hipster-looking guy, both with concentrated faces. There are three people in the polling station: an elderly couple who go to the booth together, and another girl who votes for the first time. Before registering, she carefully studies what is written about each deputy in the poster on the wall. Members of the commission cordially congratulate her on the electoral premiere, but they do not seem to give any gifts. At the exit from the school, a young man in a blue vest with the inscription "Poll" is waiting for voters. He, as the inscription on his badge says, represents the IMA-consulting company. He asks who they voted for, falls into a slight stupor from the clarifying question, does he mean single-mandate members or a party. But he quickly determines and, in addition, clarifies how it became known about the single-seat member for whom the vote was eventually cast.

The average turnout at 18.00 Moscow time in Russia (remember that this is like an average temperature, since somewhere else it is not six o'clock in the evening, and somewhere the voting has already ended) - 39.84%, the correspondent of Gazeta.Ru reports.

Fresh data on regional voter activity. At 18:00 Moscow time, the maximum turnout was registered in the Tyumen region (74%), the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (66%), Dagestan (73%) and Tyva (67%). The minimum data is in St. Petersburg - 16%, that is, only every sixth citizen came to the polling station there.

By the way, Gorovoy confirmed that in the Rostov region “by means of objective control (that is, on video cameras. - Gazeta.Ru) stuffing situations were recorded” at PECs 1958 and 1749. The check is currently underway, the decision will also be made by the Investigative Committee.

In the Altai Territory, according to Gorovoy, explanations were taken from six people about the possible organization of carousels, the materials were transferred to the UK, which, judging by the words of the deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, will decide on initiating a case. “I don’t want to give, for ethical and legal reasons, an assessment of the decision-making by colleagues from the UK,” he said.

Shiroka Rossiyushka - look at a polling station in South Africa.

Just an interesting fact. As the first deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Alexander Gorovoy said, since the beginning of the election campaign, 25 criminal cases have been initiated in connection with violations of the electoral law, which is "less than in 2011."
There were 728 administrative cases in 2016, while in 2011 there were 2090.

Meanwhile, CEC member Boris Ebzeev shows journalists a video of a bride and groom voting in Chechnya, who arrived at the polling station directly from the registry office, the girl in a wedding dress with a veil. “I want to congratulate the young people on this day!” - comments a member of the CEC Alexander Klyukin.

Option one, the source continues: ballot boxes may contain ballots that are visually different from the "correct" ballots, and these can be easily selected. “And the second option: if the ballots are the same and there are more of them than there should have been voters, then the commission will discuss the issue of recognizing the elections at the polling station as invalid,” he concludes.

The ill-fated ballot boxes of polling station No. 1958 will be opened at the territorial commission and the prosecutor's office. The materials have already been submitted to the Investigative Committee.

Fresh information about Rostov-on-Don and PEC 1958. According to Gazeta.Ru's source in the Election Committee of the Rostov Region, at the moment both ballot boxes caught on video have been sealed and removed - set aside.
“They don't vote. A new ballot box was collected at the polling station, in the presence of all of us it was re-sealed, and now voting is taking place in it. At 20.00, a separate count will be made, and if there is a discrepancy in the number of ballots that were at the polling station and those that ended up in the ballot boxes, then there are two options,” the source said.

Meanwhile, foreign observers praised Russia for the good organization of the elections, TASS reports. Thus, MEP Stefano Mauliu said that during the day he managed to visit four polling stations with his colleagues. “We looked at how the voting procedure is going, talked with voters. Everything is going well, without violations,” he said.

As of 15.00 in the Republic of Crimea, 33.77% of voters voted. This was announced at a briefing in Simferopol by the head of the election commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Mikhail Malyshev. “More than 504,000 voters have voted, the situation is calm,” Malyshev said. In Sevastopol, the results are less - at 16.30 the turnout was at the level of 32.41%.

Pokémon cannot be caught at polling stations, said the chairman of the election commission of the Sverdlovsk region, Valery Chainikov.
“An attempt to catch a Pokemon is a violation of public order, obstruction of the work of the election commission, art. 5.69 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. The police officers know this. One of us tried to catch him, he was taken away.”

The elections to the State Duma under the new rules are being held in a more organized and "more emotional" manner than the elections to the State Duma in 2011, said Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko.

REN-TV journalists were not allowed into the headquarters of PARNAS. It is not yet clear why.

At a polling station in the Uvelsky district in the Chelyabinsk region, an unknown person opened fire, TASS reports.

“According to preliminary data, the shooting took place in the Uvelsky district. There were no casualties. As a result of the shooting, only the window was broken, ”said the source of the agency.

Sofya Cherepanova, press secretary of the Rodina party, told Gazeta.Ru about the complaint to the CEC against the actions of United Russia in the Tambov region. In the complaint, the “Rodintsy” refer to massive illegal campaigning near polling stations in the region for United Russia, expressed in the collection and storage of invitations to elections with the symbols of the ruling party and an appeal to vote for it on the territory of the PEC. At most polling stations, invitations are folded directly on the tables of voting members of PECs, or they are collected at the entrance to the polling station.
The response of the election commission of the Tambov region, signed by its chairman Ofitserov, said that such invitations with United Russia symbols “cannot be recognized as election campaigning,” since they do not “encourage” the voter to vote for the candidate and the list.

Self-nominated candidate Maria Baronova (“Open Russia”, walking in the Central Administrative District of Moscow) will file a complaint against PEC 76 with the CEC. Earlier, ballots found in the safe had suddenly run out at this polling station. Baronova's observers were expelled from the polling station, the candidate says.

The Rostov electoral committee commented on the video with the “wall” covering the stuffing at the infamous CEC 1958: “The investigation of the incident will be brought to an end,” said Sergei Yusov, chairman of the electoral committee of the Rostov region.

After a request from Gazeta.Ru, the Central Election Commission is preparing a request to the Ministry of Internal Affairs demanding that exit poll data published on social networks during the elections be removed, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Central Election Commission Nikolai Bulaev said. Recall that the question of Gazeta.Ru to the head of the department, Ella Pamfilova, was related to the fact that the leader of the Green party, Oleg Mitvol, published on his Twitter the data of the exit poll in the Medvedkovsky district, in which he is running as a single-mandate.
“The legal department of the rapid response group, after analyzing what is available, will prepare a request to the Ministry of Internal Affairs on this matter with a statement against the author of the posted material, a demand has been sent to remove this material, to remove it where it is currently posted,” Bulaev explained.

Those who follow the voting process have a hard time. “Voters are not fed, those who came to vote for the first time are not given anything,” Yelena, a member of the election commission at one of the polling stations of constituency No. 205, told Gazeta.Ru. “Several bags of crackers, two containers of Soviet pasta, chops and a container of sauerkraut were brought for members of the election commission.” In previous elections, the food was better, she sadly states.

And in the Astrakhan region, as Solovyov said, at 4-5 in the morning, unknown persons welded the door of the regional committee of the Communist Party. The secretary of the Central Committee, a candidate for the State Duma, Nikolai Arefiev, who arrived at the scene in the morning, was forced to call a brigade to boil the door back. Thus, the attackers thwarted the advancement of observers to the polling stations.

In total, the Communist Party sent 30 complaints to the Central Election Commission, they were duplicated by complaints to the Prosecutor General's Office, Vadim Solovyov told Gazeta.Ru. The main violations that the communists complain about have already been publicized by the rest of the parties: this is a throw-in at the CEC 1958 in the Rostov region and in Dagestan at the PEC 1041. Also, according to Solovyov, two “carousels” were found in Tver, which transport voters in columns from polling station to polling station : at the head of one column is a bus A 156 AN, the other is a Skoda C400RM car. The last time they were seen was near PEC 435. In Vyshny Volochek, a car was smashed to the candidate of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation for the Legislative Assembly of the Tver Region, Ulyanov, Lenin's namesake.

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation writes that the Communists have exhausted the "censored comments" on the elections.

The Fontanka correspondent tried himself as a “carousel driver”: he received a special sticker on his passport and showed it to a member of the PEC, who gave him four ballots. “The correspondent was offered to sign for receiving the ballot for another person,” the St. Petersburg journalists write.

The chief lawyer of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Vadim Solovyov - "Gazeta.Ru": “In the aggregate, the elections are an order of magnitude more cynical and unfair than five years ago. It reminds me of Egypt, when Mubarak won with a score of 95%, and then there was a revolution.” True, most of the Communists' claims to the elections are not related to the voting day, but to the legislation and the postponement of the elections to September.

But a member of the CEC with an advisory vote from United Russia, Konstantin Mazurevsky, told Gazeta.Ru that their headquarters did not reveal any serious violations: “These are separate, minor violations.”
For example, at polling station 683 in the Churapchinsky district, observers recorded the fact of a defective urn. "The urn has been repaired. During the repair, voting was not interrupted,” Mazurevsky said, explaining that voters left their ballots in a conspicuous place under the supervision of the commission. In Chelyabinsk, observers from "one party" came in signs with symbols. However, this violation was quickly eliminated.

In Khabarovsk, a suspicious object was recorded at one of the sites. He was checked with cynologists. During this procedure, the voting stopped for a few minutes. “I repeat that our observers are aimed at strict suppression of the revealed violations,” Mazurevsky emphasized.

Representatives of the Growth Party told a Gazeta.Ru correspondent that they had filed a complaint with the CEC about violations at polling stations in Rostov-on-Don.

A crowd of soldiers was found at PEC 573 in St. Petersburg. “When asked about being forced to vote for someone, they look at the floor in embarrassment.”

The turnout for the elections to the State Duma in Moscow at 15.00 reached 19%.

As of 12:00, Yabloko's hotline had received 300 applications, Ignat Kalinin from the party's press service told Gazeta.Ru.
Of these, 208 signals are on minor issues: procedural issues of entering into the voter lists, restrictions on photo and video filming, making calls by voters, consultations on issues of electoral legislation.

61 signals were received on more serious issues: unlinked “additional lists of voters”, non-admission of a member of the PEC with the right to an advisory vote/observer (all issues were promptly resolved), voting by certain small groups of citizens by absentee ballots. There are also 32 "dangerous" signals: mainly mass organized voting by absentee ballots. Complaints about mass voting stopped coming after 12 days, Yabloko notes.

Our correspondent from the headquarters of A Just Russia reported on the mysterious disappearance of Vasserman: “It seems that he has already left, although his vest is here.”

In Tolyatti, near a polling station, a drunken man with a knife tried to attack a traffic police officer. The law enforcement officer was forced to open fire on the man, he is now hospitalized.

At 16.00 Moscow time the voting ended in Irkutsk. According to candidate Olga Zhakova, no serious violations were recorded in the Irkutsk region: “For the first time in six years, we have not written a single complaint.”
At the same time, a very low turnout is indicated on the website of the local CEC - 13.03%, and this figure has not changed since the morning. “The regional election committee shows the same number, so we don’t know exactly what turnout,” Zhakova added.

In four regions of Crimea, polling stations were de-energized due to a thunderstorm, Mikhail Malyshev, head of the local election commission, told Interfax.

The call center of the Yabloko headquarters received 170 complaints in just 12 hours, deputy chairman of the party Nikolai Rybakov told a Gazeta.ru correspondent. But so far, only one complaint from Yabloko has been sent to the CEC - a member of the commission with the right to vote from the party was not allowed to work at PEC 2091. But in the near future, party members promise to process and send more complaints to the Central Election Commission.

In Chechnya, turnout currently stands at 67.43%.

The headquarters of United Russia told Gazeta.Ru that they did not record any large-scale violations. The biggest one is the stuffing in Rostov.

In Crimea, they also launched a phone raffle to increase turnout.

A real fair was launched at the polling station in Irkutsk.

You won’t believe it, but another stuffing happened at the famous 1958 site in Rostov.

How elections are held where there are no "carousels" and other violations:
“There are no queues, there are few people, mostly neatly dressed elderly people,” says Dmitry Mikhailover, an observer at PEC 1180. - The members of the commission sit on Facebook and show each other videos, periodically chuckle at especially freaky old people. Security somehow does not show itself very well, they do not search anyone. The voters were not given presents for the first time, but chocolates were purchased. A lot of people are not included in the lists. They vote on a "separate list" in a separate queue. They are fed with dull pies for 50 rubles. There are no electronic boxes. At the exit, no one gives anything to voters. There are three observers: me and some completely green youth. They sit on the couch, huddle. One grandmother came, she said she voted for Stalin, and now she came to vote for Putin, but he is not on the lists. The other one shouted for a long time that she did not want to vote for a united, fair or some other, but simply FOR RUSSIA, then she crossed the ballot. People in the crowd are joking: who to vote for - for Trump or for Clinton?

The average turnout in Sevastopol (according to TASS) is 20.24%, throughout Crimea - 34%.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky personally witnessed one of the violations: a bus brought about 200 people to the Moscow polling station 2714, where the party leader came to vote.
According to Karginov, there is a lot of pressure on state employees. Such cases are seen in the Vologda region. People are forced to vote under the threat of dismissal. “I think you can guess for which party,” he added. He also talked about how, even in the private sector, directors of enterprises force their employees to bring blank ballots.

When asked by a Gazeta.Ru correspondent how many complaints had already been submitted to the CEC and how many responses had been received, Karginov replied that 179 complaints had been filed, but not a single official response had yet been received. “We hope to get a reaction before the end of the voting hour,” the source said.

A briefing has just ended at the LDPR headquarters, a Gazeta.ru correspondent from the party headquarters reports. Sergey Karginov, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Agrarian Issues, summed up the interim results on the situation at the sites.
Karginov spoke about the nature of the violations. According to him, in Naro-Fominsk, on election day, the addresses of polling stations were changed, people do not know where to vote. Complaints are coming from the Omsk region from pensioners: the elevator and electricity are turned off in the houses so that the elderly cannot get to the plots.

More than 100 citizens of the Russian Federation voted on the territory of the Russian Embassy in Kyiv. “Despite the difficult situation around Russian foreign missions on the territory of Ukraine, the elections are held in the prescribed manner. As of 15.00 Moscow time, more than 100 people voted in Kyiv,” the embassy said.

The candidate from the party "Fair Russia" Anatoly Wasserman said that there is no fundamental difference in the number of violations between these elections and the previous ones - the same already known methods, the same scale.

Guys, the polls have opened in the US.

In several regions of Siberia, they are trying to stimulate turnout with competitions for the best selfies. The winners will receive certificates in stores or smartphones for photos from polling stations, the election commission of the Altai Territory reports.
“Any citizen who voted in the Central District can be a participant in the contest. It is necessary to provide a photo with a positive story that evokes a positive attitude of voters towards the elections and encourages them to actively participate in them, the best will be determined by the competition commission, ”the election commission told TASS. What prize awaits the winner, the electoral committee did not disclose. It is specified that 19 photos have come to the competition so far.

Everything is calm in Rwanda.

No stuffing was recorded at the Russian Consulate General in Munich.

In the village of Oktyabrsky, a pensioner came to the polling station and found that data had already been entered in front of his last name. In fact, a complaint was filed with the police.

At the polling station in 1860, the voters' registers contained penciled notes with numbers on almost every page. There is reason to believe that they were made to prepare falsifications. Prepared a complaint to the PEC. The same violation was found in the Oktyabrsky settlement. There, marks were put in front of the names of voters under 35 years old - that is, those who often do not participate in elections.

One more violation, in Yemanzhelinka, was reported by a supporter of the party, combatant Viktor Timchenko. “Exit voting is being conducted with obvious violations,” he said. - I photographed the register before leaving - there are no signatures, no seals, several mandatory fields are not filled. 100 ballots issued. In addition, we checked and found that the portable trash can was taken to addresses that were not included in the register.” A complaint is being prepared to the electoral commission.

At polling stations 1912 and 2400, it was found that people who were not on the register were voting at home voting. There are grounds for canceling the results of the exit voting. Written complaints to the electoral commission.

At the polling station, located at 46 Troitsky Trakt, observers from the SR registered a mass transfer of voters with absentee ballots.

"Fair Russia" in the morning recorded violations in Barnaul, the correspondent of "Gazeta.Ru" from the headquarters of the party. Deputy of the faction of the SR in the State Duma, candidate for deputy of the State Duma Valery Gartung, during a live broadcast at the central headquarters of the SR, reported massive violations during the “day of silence” and election day in the Chelyabinsk region.

The elections are monitored not only in Russia, but also abroad. The Guardian, for example, writes that the outcome of the elections will not affect Putin's power.

The best constituency detected.

Oleg Mitvol, a candidate for the Medvedkovo single-mandate district, published on his Twitter the data of the exit poll in his district. Ella Pamfilova, at the request of Gazeta.Ru, promised to deal with this fact: “This is a direct violation, on his own head. We will collect all the facts and we will react.” Mitvol's blog has 68,000 subscribers and is subject to the same restrictions as the media.

Pamfilova wished that journalists “like pikes” would not let the members of the Central Electoral Commission doze like “crucians”.

The turnout throughout Russia at 14.00 is approximately 23%.

The CEC took special control over the situation in two regions of the Russian Federation, where absentee ballots could be abused.

“We now have two regions under close control, where there may be abuse at the regional level with the help of regional absentee ballots,” Pamfilova said, without specifying which territories he was talking about.

In the Samara region, the following announcements appeared: the tenants of the house are promised to make repairs in the entrance if they ensure a high turnout in the elections.

The chairman of the electoral committee of the Rostov region, Sergei Yusov, told Pamfilova that he watched a video of the alleged stuffing at the 1958 polling station about half an hour ago: “There is no 100 percent certainty that this is a stuffing, but we can assume that it looks like it. Moreover, it was organized by one of the present members of the commissions.
According to Yusov, measures have already been taken. Half an hour ago, the urn was sealed and set aside. According to the results of voting, a separate counting of votes will be carried out. Appropriate applications have also been filed with the prosecutor's office. “At the same time, this gives us reason to put all sites in this territory under special control,” says Yusov.

Note that Gazeta.Ru let Pamfilova know about the suspicious video just half an hour ago.

“In A Just Russia they happily report that more than 15% have already voted in the Pskov region and people are coming, the deputy is happy with everything, there are no violations,” reports a Gazeta.Ru correspondent from the headquarters of the Socialist Republic.
In Velikie Luki, the turnout is already more than 30%, the election organizers are working closely with the prosecutor's office so that there are no stuffing. “In the Murmansk region, the picture is worse - they complain that turnout is low due to good weather, many have gone on a picnic,” the correspondent adds.

In Dagestan, the same people vote several times in several polling stations.

Over the past two hours, the LDPR call center reported an additional 88 complaints about violations of the electoral law, of which 6 were stuffing, 5 deliveries. In total, 105 complaints have already been sent to the CEC.

In Edinburgh, Scotland, a 20-year-old boy who came to vote for the first time was presented with a flower and a tricolor ribbon, TASS reports citing diplomats from the local consulate. Also, the young man, like all other voters, was treated to tea with gingerbread and bagels.

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation reports that near polling station 1584 (Mozhaisk district of the Moscow region) 5 buses with carousels have been blocked, they have already voted in several polling stations. They called the police.

The entrance to the embassy is blocked, the correspondent of Gazeta.Ru reports in Kyiv. Anyone who comes up and tries to get inside is called a criminal.

Pamfilova also recalls that there are not so many absentee ballots issued in Russia. In Moscow - approximately 0.37% of all voters. In the Moscow region - 1% of all voters. She also reminded that it is impossible to vote for candidates in single-seat districts using absentee ballots.

Altai Krai, apparently, "recaptured". The head of the regional election committee, Irina Akimova, smashes the videos to smithereens and hints at their "staged nature." Pamfilova, in turn, does not claim anything, but clearly hints that nothing can be revealed from the materials sent.
“God forbid there will be some violations in Ryzhkov’s district, they should inform us right away,” Pamfilova urged, but noted that it was necessary to confirm her position with more serious materials.

“So that we don’t waste energy on something that doesn’t exist,” she concluded her speech, adding that there are more serious problems that the CEC should pay attention to.

The National Police of Ukraine has strengthened the security of the Russian Embassy in Kyiv. This was announced by the head of the Main Department of the National Police of Kyiv Andriy Klymenko. The police also detained a protester who was beating a Russian citizen in front of the consulate in Kyiv.

Meanwhile in a parallel universe...

A bomb threat at a polling station in Moscow did not have a bomb. The work of the site at the address: Armenian lane, 4, has been restored to normal.

Pamfilova: “According to the fragmentary data that we received, there is no way to identify the perpetrators. In the videos from the Altai Territory, the license plate of the car is closed, a piece of the passport is without any data.”

The Election Commission of the Moscow Region also refutes the information about the transportation of voters.

Irina Akimova, chairman of the Altai Territory Executive Committee, denies any problems in Barnaul:
“In general, in 1835 districts of the region, everyone is working in a regular, working, conflict-free mode, at each district there are 10 or more observers, especially in Barnaul, in all the districts that we recorded as called on the Internet, including 142, all checked on call, no violations.

Akimova announced this via video link with Pamfilova at the CEC.

The candidate from the Party of Growth in Sevastopol, Oleg Nikolaev, told Gazeta.ru about problems with the admission of observers to 70 polling stations. In addition, the low level of training of members of the commissions.

In Sevastopol, ballots have already begun to be found in trash cans, our correspondent from Crimea, Anna Zhurba, reports.

An Interfax law enforcement source said the man who threatened to detonate a bomb at a polling station in Armenian Lane in Moscow is a local resident known for his penchant for excessive drinking and inappropriate behavior.

This explains a lot.

In the Far Eastern regions, the CEC website already gives an appearance at 18.00 local time. It is mostly low: Sakhalin Region - 32%, Jewish Autonomous Region - 37%, Magadan Region - 33%, Amur Region - 39%, Khabarovsk Territory - 32%, Primorsky Territory - 32%. Kamchatka Territory - 34%, Trans-Baikal Territory - 33%, Yakutia - 46%. Only Chukotka - almost 69%.

In Rostov, surveillance cameras recorded a stuffing. Pamfilova promised that in order to clarify the circumstances of the incident, the head of the election commission would be contacted as soon as possible.

In Moscow School 591 (PEC 2567), voting at one o'clock in the afternoon proceeded calmly. Neither observers, nor members of the commission, nor students on duty at the gates of the school, who made exit polls, noticed any violations. There were no signs of cruise voting and no crowds at the site since morning.
However, in parallel with the Gazeta.Ru correspondent, a man entered the polling station, who suddenly began to argue with voters, PEC members and observers, clearly distracting the latter. After that, an observer from Yabloko accused the correspondent of Gazeta.Ru of coordinating the violent citizen and facilitating falsifications, arguing that two people appeared at the polling station at the same time.

At the polling station 2151 in Moscow, where Putin voted, the choice was also made by the chairman of the Supreme Court Vyacheslav Lebedev, the head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina and the deputy chairman of the State Duma, the president of the Russian Olympic Committee Alexander Zhukov.

Turnout by noon: Moscow - 8.3% (5 years ago it was 12%), Chechnya - 45%.

Information about the bomb at the site in Armenian Lane was not confirmed - it turned out that this was the Ministry of Emergency Situations conducting a drill! At least, this is reported by the correspondent of "Open Russia".

“If you want the quality of the highest legislative body of the country to meet your ideas, take the trouble ... to make a meaningful choice in your choice”

There is a slight panic at the headquarters of PARNAS, reports Gazeta.Ru correspondent Anna Fedorova: “The map of violations in the elections in Moscow is not working properly, information about non-compliance with laws practically does not come. The only way to get information about violations is to send the journalists themselves to the PEC, which is what many want to do now.”

A man who threatened to blow up at a polling station in Moscow was detained, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said.


The seventh composition of the modern State Duma of Russia was elected in September 2016 and officially began to work in October of the same year. The term of office of the Duma is five years, provided that it is not dissolved by the president of the country (which can only be done in individual cases and has never happened in the history of modern Russia). Thus, the seventh squad as such will work until the fall of 2021. Nevertheless, this year by-elections to the Duma will be held in several regions of Russia, which for various reasons do not yet have their own deputy in the lower house of the Russian parliament. Elections to the State Duma in September 2018 in Russia - the date of voting in which regions the by-elections of deputies will be held.

Date of elections to the State Duma in 2018

By-elections of deputies will be held on September 9, 2018 - on a single voting day, which traditionally falls at the beginning of September.
On the same day, all other elections scheduled for this year will be held in the country, with the exception of the presidential one, which takes place in March.

These are elections of governors of several regions (including Moscow), elections of deputies of several regional parliaments and elections of deputies of city parliaments in a number of cities of the country.

By-elections of deputies of the State Duma will be held in six regions of Russia:


  • Amur region,

  • Kaliningrad region,

  • Nizhny Novgorod Region,

  • Samara Region,

  • Saratov region,

  • Tver region.

Residents of these regions should keep in mind that the 2018 State Duma elections do not affect everyone who lives in these regions. In the Saratov region, by-elections will be held in two single-mandate districts of the region, in all the rest - in one of the single-mandate districts.

Elections to the State Duma in September 2018 in the Amur Region

The Duma deputy from the 71st Amur single-mandate constituency was Ivan Abramov from the LDPR party. On June 13 of this year, the Duma released him from the mandate - Abramov is one of the contenders for the post of senator from the Amur region.
If a former deputy becomes a senator of the Federation Council, formally this means an increase - from the lower house of parliament, Abramov will go to the higher one.

In order to fill the vacant seat of a deputy, by-elections of a deputy will be held in the 71st constituency in September.

Elections of a State Duma deputy in September 2018 in the Kaliningrad region

In the 98th Central single-mandate constituency of the Kaliningrad region, there has been no official Duma deputy since May 10 this year. In fact, Aleksey Silanov ceased to perform the functions of a deputy even earlier - in April.

Silanov became the head of Kaliningrad after the former head of the city, Alexander Yaroshuk, resigned early.

Since there are no direct elections of the mayor in Kaliningrad, the new head was elected by local deputies. In order for the seat of the deputy from the 98th district not to be empty, and for the inhabitants of the region to have their own representative in the federal parliament, on September 9, 2018, by-elections to the Duma will be held here.

Elections of a State Duma deputy in September 2018 in the Nizhny Novgorod region

The deputy from the 129th Nizhny Novgorod single-mandate constituency has not been in the Duma since January 19 this year. In Nizhny Novgorod there was a story similar to the one that happened a little later in Kaliningrad. Two days earlier, on January 17, the former deputy from the 129th district, Vladimir Panov, became the mayor of Nizhny Novgorod.
Panov was also elected by the local Nizhny Novgorod Duma, since there are no direct elections of the head of the city in Nizhny Novgorod.

According to rumors, Panov asked to be relieved of his mandate as a deputy of the Duma even before he was formally appointed head of the Lower.

Elections of a State Duma deputy in September 2018 in the Samara region

On the same day that the Duma dismissed the deputy from the Amur Region, the deputy from the 158th Samara single-mandate constituency, Nadezhda Kolesnikova, was also dismissed from her mandate.

On June 13 of this year, Kolesnikova ceased to be a member of the Duma. According to rumors, she was offered a position in the Russian Ministry of Education.

Elections of a State Duma deputy in September 2018 in the Saratov region

In the Saratov region, two deputies of the State Duma are missing at once.

Firstly, a year ago, on June 17, 2017, Oleg Grishchenko, a deputy from the 163rd Saratov single-mandate constituency, died. Since it was too late to call by-elections in September at that time, the district was left without a deputy until September 2018.

Secondly, in October 2017, Mikhail Isaev, a deputy from the 165th Balashov single-mandate constituency, became an interim, and then was elected mayor of Saratov.

Elections of a State Duma deputy in September 2018 in the Tver region

In October 2017, on the same day that Mikhail Isaev was released from the deputy mandate, Vladimir Vasiliev, who was sent by the President of Russia to lead the Republic of Dagestan as acting head of the region, ceased to be a deputy.

Vasiliev was a deputy from the 180th Zavolzhsky single-mandate constituency of the Tver region.

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