The Moscow prosecutor’s office again warned against participation in uncoordinated actions

Moscow Prosecutor’s Office again released warning in connection with publications on the Internet calling for simultaneous arrival at polling stations at 12:00 on March 17. Previous department warning published March 14th. Previously, comrades of opposition leader Alexei Navalny called for such actions.

The prosecutor’s office regards these actions as “illegal mass public actions.” The department declared responsibility for participation in such actions, dissemination of information about them, preventing citizens from exercising their voting rights and the work of election commissions, as well as involving minors in illegal activities.

The press release reports that the above actions can be qualified as crimes under articles of the Criminal Code on obstruction of the exercise of electoral rights and the work of election commissions (141), repeated violation of the established procedure for holding a rally (212.1) and involvement of a minor in the commission of a crime (150) .

Today, March 15, on the first day of the Russian presidential elections, the head of the Russian Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, said that in Rostov and Karachay-Cherkessia there were cases of ink being poured into ballot boxes. She also said, that journalists with fake accreditations, “impostors from civil initiatives” who are “trying to carry out illegal actions” have appeared at polling stations in St. Petersburg and other regions. Deputy Chairman of the Central Election Commission Nikolai Bulaev called strengthen security at ballot boxes due to damage to ballots

Investigative Committee of Russia excited criminal case under Art. 141 of the Criminal Code in relation to a girl who poured brilliant green into a ballot box in Moscow. Later TFR accused according to the same article, a resident of the Rostov region who poured green liquid into a trash can. In addition, media outlets are publishing a video allegedly showing two women pouring brilliant green into a ballot box in Borisoglebsk in the Voronezh region.

The Election Commission of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug reported that a resident of Kogalym threw a Molotov cocktail into a stationary voting box for the presidential elections in the Russian Federation. On the commission called unsuccessful arson attempt. Later Ella Pamfilova stated about a major attack on the video surveillance system at polling stations in the Tyumen region.

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