The electronic voting system in Moscow came under a serious cyberattack overnight, amid the parliamentary elections currently underway in Russia, said Yela Pamfilova, head of the Central Election Commission, on Saturday, according to the Interfax news agency.
She noted that the attacks are continuing, but they are being successfully countered and the situation remains under control.
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Parliamentary elections in Russia are being held from Friday through Sunday.
Russians are called upon to elect the new State Duma. Vladimir Putin’s “United Russia” party is expected to retain control of parliament, which it has held for the past 23 years, with the support of certain parties that technically belong to the opposition but in practice consistently back the Kremlin on critical issues.
Despite the predictability of the outcome, these are the first Duma elections since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Last month, the authorities barred “Yabloko” —the liberal, anti-war party—from the electoral process, thereby removing the only remaining political force in Russia that openly opposed the invasion of Ukraine.
Thus, several other parties remain on the political scene—from the Communists to the far-right Liberal Democratic Party — which make up what is known in Russia as the “systemic opposition”: these are groups that have the leeway to criticize the authorities on minor issues but align with “United Russia” on matters of importance to the Kremlin.
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