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In Russia, early results from the parliamentary election show the Kremlin-backed United Russia party leading in the tightly controlled vote. The election, the country’s first parliamentary ballot held during wartime, began on Friday and concluded on Sunday, with around 111 million people eligible to vote. Moscow’s mayor said voting went ahead as planned despite Ukrainian drone attacks. Charlotte Hughes reports.
Preliminary results suggest that Kremlin-backed United Russia is on course to retain its constitutional majority.
Vladimir Putin will likely use the result to claim most Russians back the so-called special military operation in Ukraine, writes the BBC's Steve Rosenberg.
Vladimir Putin's party was a step away from securing the parliamentary majority in the first legislative elections his country held in times of war. The Kremlin leader has highlighted the results as a sign of popular support for the military campaign in Ukraine. This process, of which the opposition factors have been almost completely excluded, defines half of the seats of the Duma or Lower House: 225 of the 450 curules.
The Kremlin party, United Russia, gets 57% of the votes at the start of the count in elections where only the government has access to the electronic voting system
US President Donald Trump said Friday that his eldest son had repaid a Kremlin-linked Russian businessman who funded two days of lavish wedding celebrations in the Bahamas, after the gift raised questions over foreign influence and ethics.
For the Kremlin, parliamentary elections remain a mechanism for political participation, feedback and legitimacy.
New law allows tariffs of up to 100 percent on major buyers of Russian oil, including China and India.
President Vladimir Putin comes to parliamentary elections in the middle of a somewhat uncomfortable position. With the changes in the Ukrainian Army's strategy of recent months, the Russians began to live in their own flesh the war initiated by the Kremlin four years ago, with drones impacting on strategic structures, dissupply, scarcity, inflation and lack of workers. Our correspondent Xavier Colàs extended the information.
The Russians have already begun to vote in a number of parliamentarians that are held until Sunday and in which even the parties loyal to the Kremlin recognize irregularities
Moscow transferred to a Russian company the operations of Nestlé, Auchan, Lemana Pro and FM Logistic subsidiaries, to a extent that the Kremlin presents as a response to the Western sanctions for the war that Vladimir Putin launched against Ukraine. The decision concerns companies from countries that Russia considers "unfriendly" and raises pressure on Western companies that still maintain business on Russian territory.
The polling stations opened on Friday, September 18, in the Russian Far East at the beginning of a three-day vote for the parliamentary elections, the first since Moscow launched its large-scale invasion of Ukraine. The main party of the Kremlin, United Russia, stands out to maintain its control of power along with other formations aligned with President Vladímir Putin, as the only party that criticized the war was excluded from the electoral ballot.
Kremlin calls UK's support for Ukraine an endorsement of 'terrorism' after recent escalation in weapons supply.
Russians on Friday began three days of voting in the country’s first wartime parliamentary election, which features virtually no opposition and is all but certain to secure the Kremlin’s political dominance. France 24's Douglas Herbert takes a closer look.
Russia and Ukraine traded strikes overnight as Russians prepared to vote in parliamentary elections in which the Kremlin's main party, United Russia, is poised to keep its grip on power, with the only party that criticised the war was removed from the ballot.
Nestlé is assessing its options after Russia placed the Swiss food giant’s local assets under temporary external administration.
There is no doubt about the outcome of this vote, but for the Kremlin it remains important.
Fuel shortages, drone strikes and mobilization rumors are fueling anxiety and war fatigue in Russia. As support for peace talks grows among Russians, the Kremlin is watching closely ahead of parliamentary elections.
Voting got underway on Friday in a tightly controlled three-day parliamentary election in Russia which President Vladimir Putin has framed as a barometer of support for Russia's war in Ukraine. It is the first parliamentary election since Russia launched its full-scale war in Ukraine in February 2022, and most anti-war candidates have been excluded from the ballot.
The risk of a protest vote was too high at the Duma elections so a pre-election crackdown was carried out.
