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Observers at polling station No. 109 in the Stavropol region were prohibited from moving around the premises, and from their designated spot, part of the ballot boxes and booths are not visible, reported the "Yabloko" party.

The Central Election Commission of South Ossetia has summarized the final results of the presidential elections in the republic. 84.95% of voters cast their votes for Marat Kambolov, who is recognized as the elected president.

Observer Ekaterina Burdyukova called the police to polling station No. 2014 in Krasnodar after discovering a tenfold discrepancy between the number of records of early voters in the logs and the data submitted to the election commission.

Participants of the mourning "March of Memory" held in Yerevan sent a petition to the UN office calling for condemnation of the Azerbaijani authorities' policies and for measures to ensure the safe return of residents who left Nagorno-Karabakh after the hostilities in September 2023.

The election commission's data that more than 36 percent of voters in the Volgograd region voted on Friday suggests that such turnout may be related either to artificial inflation of the figure or to coercion to participate in the voting, local analysts indicated, stating that they see signs of the use of administrative resources in it.

In the Rostov region, voters do not perceive elections as a platform for protest, as dissent can be expressed in other ways. On Saturday, there was no excitement at the polling stations, no queues, people went to vote one by one or in small groups, local residents reported.

The administration of Makhachkala reported on the repair of the roadway of several city streets. Local residents, commenting on this report on social media, pointed out the inadequate quality of the road works, called it patching holes, and complained about the poor condition of other streets.

At some polling stations in Makhachkala, there were almost no voters, and one of them had only about 15 ballots in the box, voters reported. They attributed the low turnout to apathy and disbelief in change, expressing doubt that their votes could alter the political situation.

After processing 99% of the protocols from the precinct commissions, Marat Kambolov received 85.12% of the votes from the voters in the presidential elections of South Ossetia.

State Duma deputies must cancel the pension reform, address the housing issues for orphans, and the rise in tariffs, prices for medicines and food, voters from Kabardino-Balkaria indicated on the second day of voting.

After the detention of the observer from "Yabloko", Boris Miklyukov, in the Rostov region, his whereabouts remained unknown for some time, and a person who participated in the court, introducing himself as a lawyer, took Miklyukov's phones and stopped communicating, reported his party colleagues.

Security forces in Chechnya conducted unofficial raids on the homes of residents registered with the Ministry of Internal Affairs before the elections, and school class leaders are gathering parents of students and organizedly sending them to polling stations, said human rights activist Maxim Rudnev.

The electricity tariff in Dagestan will increase by 11.3% starting October 1, the republican Ministry of Energy reported. Residents of the republic, commenting on the announcement of the tariff increase on social media, complained about rising expenses against the backdrop of low salaries and pensions, and also pointed out regular power outages.

On the first day of voting at polling stations in Elista, many came to vote, residents reported. According to the Kalmykia election commission, turnout exceeded 21%.

Residents of Grozny said that they do not plan to express protest through voting or to refuse to show up at the polling station on election days.

Authorities in Sochi have restricted access to beaches and embankments due to the threat of an attack by unmanned boats.

The safe with filled ballots was found outside the video surveillance zone at the polling station in Gelendzhik, said observer Svetlana Terezhol.

Convicted citizens of Armenia in Azerbaijan are deprived of phone communication and visits with relatives, they are not provided with medical examinations, and their walking time has been reduced, stated the former state minister of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The military shot down drones in Rostov-on-Don and two districts of the Rostov region.

More than 50 Azerbaijani NGOs stated in a joint statement that claims against Baku due to the visit of foreign diplomatic missions to Karabakh hinder the establishment of relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia. The Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan supported the authorities' version that the Gandzasar Monastery is a monument of Caucasian Albania.