00:00Russians voted on Sunday in the third and final day of tightly controlled parliamentary
00:04elections with Vladimir Putin's United Russia party widely expected to retain its dominance.
00:09The vote fills all 450 seats in the State Duma and is the first parliamentary election
00:14since Russia launched its full-scale war in Ukraine in 2022.
00:19However, there is little genuine opposition.
00:21The anti-war Yabloko party was barred from running its nationwide list by Russia's
00:26Supreme Court while the other main parties on the ballot all support Putin and the war.
00:31Most of Putin's prominent political opponents are now in prison, in exile, or dead.
00:36The election has also been overshadowed by fears that another military mobilization could follow
00:40the vote.
00:41Russia called up 300,000 reservists in 2022, triggering a large exodus of draft Asian men.
00:49Putin has repeatedly denied plans for another mobilization.
00:52The vote also comes as Ukrainian drone strikes increasingly bring the effects of the war
00:57deeper into Russia.
01:00The turnout has been announced by the Central Election Commission as a little over 50 percent.
01:05Russia's electoral chief also claimed that there had been over 1,000 waves of DDoS cyberattacks
01:10targeting election infrastructure in recent days without saying who was responsible.
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