“One Russia” cheered live on Russian television on Sunday. President Vladimir Putin’s party was clearly ahead in the general election. After counting around three quarters of the votes cast, United Russia came in at almost 49 percent. In 2016 it had reached 54 percent. “The balance of power has not changed, politics will remain the same.” “I think they didn’t let any observers in, there weren’t that many, now we’ll look at the results and then hear what the opposition says.” The opposition includes the communist party KPRF and the nationalist party LDPR. Both move back into parliament. They usually support Putin on key issues. The allies of the Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who has been in prison since the beginning of the year, had no chance. His supporters described the vote, which ran from Friday to Sunday, as a hoax. Election observers from the Golos organization accused the authorities of thousands of violations, including threatening election observers and casting more than one vote per voter. As this video from a surveillance camera in a polling station in Belovo, in the Kemerovo region, shows, where a person apparently throws several ballots one after the other into the ballot box. The election result is unlikely to change the political landscape. Putin has dominated Russian politics since 1999 as prime minister or head of state. The parliamentary election was the last vote before the presidential election in 2024. So far, Putin has left it open whether he will run.
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