The observer was taken to the police station, and after returning was forcibly pushed out of the polling station.

In St Petersburg, at PEC No. 486, Sofia Arkhipova, an observer from candidate Svetlana Bogomazova, was detained without explanation. She was later released and the police drove her back to the polling station. There, the chair of TEC No. 11, Maria Ryavkina, attacked Sofia. The observer’s phone was smashed, her documents were taken away, and she was left with marks and scratches on her arms from the use of force. Sofia was pushed out of the polling station with the support of commission members, and her personal belongings remained at the PEC, according to the Yabloko press service.

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