Russian President Putin's party is set to retain a majority in parliament on the last day of three-day elections in which most Kremlin critics were barred from the ballot
A man casts his ballots at the last day of a three-day long parliamentary elections in the far eastern city of Vladivostok, Russia, September 19, 2021.
The vote comes in the wake of an unprecedented crackdown on the opposition this year, with Russian authorities jailing Putin's best-known domestic foe Alexey Navalny and banning his organisations as "extremist". "These essentially aren't elections. People in effect have no choice," 43-year-old businessman Vladimir Zakharov told AFP in Russia's second city Saint Petersburg.As voting kicked off on Friday, Apple and Google caused an uproar among Russia's opposition after they removed Navalny's "Smart Voting" app, which showed supporters which candidate they should back to unseat Kremlin-aligned politicians.
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