The complete absence of PECs at polling stations only reinforces the assumption that the voting results here will be adjusted as needed.

Report on monitoring of federal television channels during the eleventh week (24–30 August 2026) of the election campaign for the elections of deputies to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the ninth convocation, scheduled for 20 September 2026

Results of the nomination and registration of candidates and party lists in the regional and local elections scheduled for 14 September 2025

The powers of Yelena Mayatnikova, a voting member of the Pskov Oblast Election Commission, were terminated early following a court ruling on interference in the elections. Mayatnikova had been a member of the commission representing the Yabloko party since 2016. She is a retired prosecution service official and worked for 17 years in the supervisory system.

Despite the general trends in domestic politics, Russia remains a large and diverse country in which elections can differ profoundly in substance and in form — in some places there has been no political competition at all for a couple of decades already, while in others a hidden or even open struggle between elites continues, and independent candidates are nominated who stand against the incumbent heads of regions.