22 criminal cases were opened in Russia in connection with the State Duma elections.

22 criminal cases were opened in Russia in connection with the State Duma elections.

This is what the head of the Central Election Committee, Ella Pampilova, said. She stated that the statistics took into account all the cases during the election campaign. Most of the cases were opened under the article on knowingly false reports about terrorism (Article 207 of the Criminal Law).

The MLA added that in the last day, the Ministry of the Interior received 367 reports of incidents, including 24 false reports of ballot box mining in 15 areas.

At the same time, Pampilova said that electronic voting in 33 regions is progressing "virtually without failures" - during the last day more than 3 million people voted this way.