Politics● ElevatedSep 23 · Sep 23, 2026, 8:51 AM
Russian officials entered public-sector employees’ data into an electronic database without their consent to monitor voter turnout, legal aid project says
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Meduza [en] · Eastern Europe
During recent elections to the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament, officials stepped up monitoring of public-sector employees’ turnout at polling stations, the legal aid project Na Ravnykh reported.
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