In Ufa, a major city in the Urals, a court fined an observer 4,000 rubles (approximately US$45) for disobeying the police (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences). According to observers, there were also detentions, equipment confiscations and attempts to remove them from the polling station in the city, reports RusNews.
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In Ufa, an observer was found guilty of disobeying the police
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