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Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin tops 92% in early district results

State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin has more than 92% of the vote in his single-member district in Saratov in the election ...
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Teenage girl detained in St. Petersburg on suspicion of setting two police cars on fire

In St. Petersburg, police have detained a teenage girl on suspicion of setting fire to police cars outside a station ...
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov urges Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to press Putin to release Russian political prisoners

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov, the former editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, spoke about Russia’s political ...
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Russia’s election commission says ruling party United Russia leads in single-member districts and party-list vote, putting it on track for another ‘constitutional majority’

United Russia has 57.82% of the party-list vote so far, according to Central Election Commission data as of the morning ...
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Russia’s antiwar Yabloko party was barred from seven of eight regional races. In the one where it made the ballot, it’s set to enter the regional legislature.

With 96.86% of precinct tallies counted, Yabloko is on track to win seats in the Novgorod regional legislature’s eighth ...
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Russian pro-war blogger Anastasia Kashevarova says friend was added to military registry the day after voting online. Another Moscow voter reported the same thing.

Anastasia Kashevarova, a pro-war propagandist and Z-blogger, said an acquaintance of hers received a notice that he had been ...
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Pro-peace Russian parliamentary candidate Yulia Kuznetsova says she’s home and voted after disappearing days before the election. She still hasn’t fully explained wh…

Yulia Kuznetsova, a Greens party candidate for the State Duma, says she’s back home. She stopped responding to messages and ...
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Axios: Trump and Zelensky agree to meet in New York as U.S. president again asks Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian refineries

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump by phone on the evening of September 20.
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Russia’s election commission says five parties are on track to enter the State Duma. Ruling United Russia had 57.19% with results in from more than a third of precincts.

Russia’s Central Election Commission has released results from the State Duma elections after 36.87% of precinct tally sheets ...
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Russia held its first State Duma election since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Officials say the same five parties are set to return, with the ruling party on track to ...

Voting has ended in Russia’s State Duma elections, and United Russia has finished first. According to Central Election Commission figures as of 11:55 p.m. Moscow time on September 20, United Russia ...
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In photos: Russians abroad hold peace rallies on the main day of voting in Russia’s State Duma elections as voters at home write ‘No war’ on ballots

September 20 is the final day of voting in Russia’s State Duma elections. The Russian opposition had urged voters to cast ...
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On the third day of Russia’s parliamentary elections, Moscow came under what its mayor called the largest Ukrainian drone attack on the capital. Officials reported tw…

Russian air defenses repelled the heaviest drone attack Ukraine has ever launched on Moscow, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said.