Russian regional elections: Increased turnout, new voting options, and ruling party success

The incumbent mayor of Moscow was among those to retain his position, as turnout was reportedly boosted by the option to vote electronically Russia concluded voting in regional elections in roughly one-fifth of its 89 federal subjects on Sunday, as the population elected local leaders and legislatures. In various parts of the country, including the…

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Shots fired at Russian military conscription center

Days after partial mobilization began, an official was attacked in a remote Siberian town A military recruitment officer was severely wounded after a man opened fire at a center in the town of Ust-Ilimsk in Irkutsk Region in Russia’s Siberia on Monday morning, the local authorities have said. There were no other casualties in the…

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Netanyahu to undergo heart surgery

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to undergo heart surgery overnight to be fitted with a pacemaker, he said in a brief statement on Twitter early Sunday morning. “A week ago I was fitted with a monitoring device. That device beeped this evening and said I must have a pacemaker and that I must…

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