In Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals, police confiscated an apple at a polling station.

In Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals, police were called to polling station no. 1457 because an observer had an apple on their table—the chair of the commission considered this campaigning for the Yabloko party. On the first day of voting, the commission did not react to the fruit in any way; by the end of the second day, the chair of the precinct election commission made remarks, and today they called the police.

“A squad consisting of several senior lieutenants was called, the scene was inspected, a scene inspection report was drawn up, and statements were collected. The ‘instrument of the crime’ was also seized—namely, the apple itself. The inspection was conducted under articles 164, 176, and 177 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation,” the observer told Vecherniye Vedomosti. The observer was not given the inspection report or a copy of the written statement, nor were they allowed to photograph them.

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