The third day of State Duma elections. What is happening

2026-09-20

✹ The main day of the three-day State Duma election voting has begun. Opposition representatives had earlier called for an anti-war action on September 20 — and for people to vote exactly at 12:00. Despite that call, as Meduza confirmed, there are no lines outside polling stations in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Agentstvo reports a line outside one polling station in New Moscow.

✹ On the night of September 20, Ukraine carried out a massive strike on Russian regions, with Moscow as the main target of the attack. Despite this, Moscow authorities said the city’s elections are proceeding “as normal.” In the Moscow region, a member of an election commission was wounded.

✹ By 12:00 Moscow time, the independent election monitoring platform “Elections 2026 — observing together!” had received about 800 complaints, one in three of them concerning violations of observers’ rights.

✹ Most polling stations abroad have opened. In total, 313 polling stations are operating in 152 countries.

Elections Proceed Normally Through Complaints

On election day three, monitors reported hundreds of complaints.

Normal procedure survived the facts again.