Despite the failure of the ruling United Russia party to win even half the vote, monitors said the polls had been slanted in its favour, The Telegraph reports.
The contentious vote sparked vast opposition rallies in Moscow and the country’s second-largest city of Saint Petersburg with police saying 300 people were arrested in Moscow alone, including popular anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny.
“Russia without Putin,” the demonstrators cried.
Police said they arrested about 100 others at the St. Petersburg rally, which was not authorized.
Britain and the United States have expressed “serious concern” about the conduct of Russia’s parliamentary elections, which election monitors said had stifled competition and shown a “lack of fairness”.
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