Press Release, 13.01.2022

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The Investigative Committee filed a criminal case on the fact of fraud in the elections of deputies of the State Duma in the Satkinsky District of the Chelyabinsk region. A voter applied to the headquarters of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko which was engaged in election observation and said that on 19 September, having come to his polling station No. 1213 in the village Berdyaush of the Satkinsky District, he found out that he and five members of his family, including those who had not been living in the village for a long time, had already voted.

Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko, recorded the fact of falsification and appealed to the Investigative Committee.

“Apparently, such a case at this polling station was not an exception. A similar situation happened in the village of Chipyshevo, Sosnovsky District, where a family of six, including one deceased, found out that someone signed on the voter list for them in polling station No. 2164 to receive ballot papers. We will continue to defend the interests of democracy and the rights of voters in the elections,” the leader of the regional branch of the party emphasised.

It should be noted that Yaroslav Shcherbakov also file law suits in the Sosnovsky District Court with claims to cancel the voting results in the settlements of Chipyshevo and Vishnyovaya Gorka.