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Two residents of Grozny reported that they decided to go to the polling stations on the last day of the three-day voting for the elections. Another citizen said that he had already participated in the voting.

Last night, the military shot down drones in 11 municipalities of the Rostov region.

The presidential elections in South Ossetia indicate Moscow's attempts to strengthen control in the region, stated the European Union. The elections held are illegal and have no legal consequences, noted the Georgian Foreign Ministry.

Access to beaches and embankments in Sochi has been allowed, which was restricted due to the threat of attack by unmanned boats.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia called the information about granting international protection to Russian deserter Vladislav Tatarintsev a complete lie.

Drone debris damaged the glazing, roof, and cladding of five private houses in the Slavyansky district.

The elections for the State Duma deputies in the Lazarevskoye stanitsa are accompanied by abnormal discrepancies in turnout data and the active use of remote voting, local public figures reported.

Residents of the Khostinsky district of Sochi complained that due to the flow of water rushing down from Mount Bythha, they were unable to reach the polling station and vote in the elections.

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.