A Russian election observer was assaulted at a polling station after raising concerns about potential fraud during the September 8 vote for governor of St. Petersburg.
After nearly two months of protests over rejected candidate registrations in Moscow, Russian officials had a stake in making sure voters turned out for the country’s September 8 local and regional elections. Some opted for entertainment, others for a military escort. This is how a strange day of contrasts unfolded.
As Russia heads into national local and regional elections on September 8, what do ordinary voters make of the country's 2019 summer of protest? Journalist Vadim Kondakov, host of Current Time’s Unknown Russia series, took to the streets in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Yekaterinburg to find out.
A Ukrainian court has released Volodymyr Tsemakh, a "person of interest" to investigators in the 2014 shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. The release came as Russian President Vladimir Putin said a prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine was nearing completion.
The mother of a Russian blogger sentenced to five years in prison for extremism related to a social media posting has expressed shock at the punishment meted out to her son, suggesting it was meant to send a warning to Russia’s opposition.
Demonstrators estimated to number in the low thousands again defied authorities on August 31 and marched in central Moscow, ignoring officials' warnings and pressing demands to let independent candidates run in upcoming city council elections.
In a video shot at a protest rally in Moscow on August 31, protesters surrounded a correspondent for the state-owned Rossiya 1 television channel, chanting "Propaganda" and "Stop lying."
Thousands of Russians marched in central Moscow as opposition activists defied authorities' warnings and pushed ahead with a protest focused on upcoming city council elections. The August 31 action was the latest in a series of confrontations between liberal activists and Moscow city authorities -- and the Kremlin. A leading opposition figure, Lyubov Sobol, speaking to journalists during the protest, said that repression will not work and also called on Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin to resign.
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