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Sergei Bojko, Putin’s challenger in Novosibirsk, was elected to the city council on Sunday. Kseniya Fadeyeva, who heads the Navalny staff in Tomsk, was also chosen. Both were the main characters in Navalny’s two documentaries about Siberia, which were released before the local elections. The films sparked great interest after Navanyj fell into a coma when he was poisoned in Tomsk. So far, they have garnered 4.9 and 3.7 million views, respectively.
Ksenia Fadeyeva
Photo: Alexander Nemenov / AFP
– The victory of Ksenija Fadejeva is very significant. It was in Tomsk that Navalny was poisoned. This was the best possible answer the staff can give. Live! writes Ivan Zhdanov on Twitter. He runs the Foundation Against Corruption, the Navalny organization that produces his documentaries, among other things.
https://twitter.com/IoannZH/status/1305194447957880832
Navalny supporters were expected to move forward in the election. After the opposition leader was poisoned with the novitjok chemical weapon during his trip to Siberia, interest in Russian local elections has grown.
The pattern repeats from last year’s local elections. The authorities did not allow opposition candidates to register, prompting a series of demonstrations in Moscow. Local elections, which everyone often ignores, were suddenly noticed and United Russia lost more than half of its seats in the Moscow city hall.
Last year’s elections still did not represent a breakthrough for the opposition. That was not the case this year either. In all the gubernatorial elections, the loyal Kremlin candidate won, according to election observers, largely through electoral fraud. The election observation organization Golos testifies about extensive violations of the rules.
Observers have been hampered in their work, not allowed to study polling stations, and webcams monitoring polling stations have been shut down. It is explicitly thanks to webcams that much of the cheating has been discovered in previous elections. It often involves filling the ballot boxes with preloaded ballot papers.
Golos has received a total of 1,306 complaints of electoral fraud from 59 different regions.
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