Russian election

Putin’s United Russia claims constitutional majority and record-sized faction in new parliament

Russia’s ruling United Russia party won a constitutional majority in the State Duma after the Sept. 18-20 vote, giving it 355 of the lower chamber’s 450 seats, Russian outlet Meduza reported on Sept. 21, citing the Central Election Commission.

21 September, 05:57 PM

Russia prioritized Duma election turnout over public safety during drone attack

Russian authorities prioritized achieving a high voter turnout at the Duma elections over public safety during Ukraine’s large-scale attack on Moscow and the surrounding region on September 20, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported.

21 September, 09:46 AM

Russia claims massive cyberattack hit Moscow election system during Duma vote

Moscow’s election system came under a large-scale, intense cyberattack overnight into Sept. 19, Russian Central Election Commission Chair Ella Pamfilova claimed, Russian news agency RBC reported.

19 September, 08:20 PM

Ukraine calls Russian State Duma elections in occupied territories illegal and void

Russia will hold so-called State Duma elections from Sept. 18 to 20 in temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories, elections that are illegal and whose results are legally null and void, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Sept. 18.

18 September, 02:15 PM

Russia stages sham State Duma vote in occupied Ukraine amid coercion

Russia plans to hold another round of so-called State Duma elections on Sept. 18–20, 2026. The criminal Kremlin regime wants to draw occupied Ukrainian territories into the process.

18 September, 12:21 PM

Kremlin officials fear new mobilization, seek ways to move relatives and assets

Fears are growing among Russians that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin could announce a new large-scale mobilization for the war against Ukraine after elections to Russia’s State Duma, with concerns also spreading among members of the Russian elite, Bloomberg reported on Sept. 18.

18 September, 12:04 PM

Hackers claim breach of Russian election systems days before State Duma vote

Days before Russia’s State Duma elections, the anonymous hacker group CikLeak said it had breached the infrastructure of Russia’s Central Election Commission and its contractors, according to a statement from the group.

17 September, 12:24 PM

ISW: Putin frames predetermined Duma vote as referendum on Ukraine war

Russia’s State Duma elections, which begin on Sept. 18, have predetermined results. Dictator Vladimir Putin is framing them as a referendum on support for the war against Ukraine, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said in a Sept. 16 report.

17 September, 11:12 AM

Russian commanders use dead troops’ names in election fraud, Atesh reports

So-called “early voting” in Russia’s State Duma elections began on Aug. 29 in temporarily occupied territories, ahead of the official vote scheduled for Sept. 18–20. This has allowed Russia to launch a large-scale election fraud operation, the Atesh partisan movement reported.

11 September, 12:25 PM

Ukraine urges CIS observers to skip Russian vote in occupied areas

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry warned on Aug. 13 observers from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) against visiting Ukrainian territories temporarily occupied by Russia, where the aggressor state plans to illegally hold voting as part of its State Duma elections.

14 August, 12:05 PM

Cyber retaliation by Ukraine’s HUR paralyzes Russian election servers — NV sources

In response to illegal elections held in temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories, cyber specialists from Ukraine’s HUR military intelligence agency launched a large-scale attack on the digital infrastructure of Russia’s Central Election Commission on Sept. 14, 2025 — the so-called “single voting day.”

15 September 2025, 01:14 PM

Report: Only 6.6% of the world lives under full democracy

Democracy worldwide is in its worst state in over 20 years, according to the latest Democracy Index published by The Economist on Feb. 27.

27 February 2025, 01:35 PM

Zelenskyy: Putin to remain in power until death, peace talks futile

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin will remain in power until his death, and that he will be "taken out of the Kremlin only feet first," the Ukrainian leader told Reuters on May 21.

22 May 2024, 11:10 AM

Russians resigned to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine

Russians have come to terms with Russia's war of aggression and conquest against Ukraine, Bloomberg reported.

7 May 2024, 02:49 PM

List of EU countries to attend Putin’s ‘inauguration’ revealed

Representatives of six European Union member states will attend “inauguration” of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, Radio Liberty, citing its own sources, reported on May 7.

7 May 2024, 12:30 PM

Montenegrin official attends Russian presidential election as observer, sees no controversy

Boban Radović, Secretary General of the Free Montenegro party and a member of the Podgorica City Council, traveled to Russia to the so-called presidential election as an "international observer", the leader of the Free Montenegro party, Vladislav Dajković, told the Pobjeda portal on March 16.

16 March 2024, 08:45 PM

Russia prints presidential ‘election’ ballots in Transnistria — MD deputy PM

Russia illegally printed ballots for voting in an unrecognized region of Transnistria ahead of the Russian presidential "elections" scheduled for March 15-17, Oleg Serebrian, Moldova’s Deputy Prime Minister said, a European news website Euractiv reported on March 14.

14 March 2024, 04:36 PM

Putin’s perfect plan: Ukraine should seize Russian lands to swap for Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory

Ukraine should simply annex Russian border lands and attempt to swap them for occupied Ukrainian territory, political expert Taras Zahorodniy told NV, agreeing with an idea put forward by Russian dictator Vladmir Putin.

14 March 2024, 03:05 PM

Kremlin orders fabrication of 75% support for Putin in occupied Ukrainian territories in upcoming ‘elections’

Kremlin-appointed heads of the occupied Ukrainian territories have been tasked with fabricating 75% support for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in the upcoming sham presidential “elections,” Defense Ministry Main Intelligence Directorate spokesman Vadym Skybytskyi said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine on March 13.

14 March 2024, 01:45 PM

Russian partisans use tanks to move on Russian border towns in the Belgorod and Kursk oblasts

Three units comprised of Russian citizens—the Legion of Free Russia, the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK), and the Siberian Battalion—crossed the border in tanks into Russia’s Belgorod and Kursk oblasts on March 12, kicking off ‘Operation Freedom’ to "liberate RF (the Russian Federation – ed.) from dictatorship," NV reports.

12 March 2024, 01:20 PM

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