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Pekka Huttunen @pahin.bsky.social

Do convicts have right to vote in Russia i.e. are they calculated as voters?

aug 5, 2025, 1:18 am • 1 0

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arboretum @andthetreestoo.bsky.social

There is a ban on voting in elections, "imposed automatically on all convicted offenders deprived of their liberty in a detention facility, as provided for by the Russian Constitution". The few convicts sentenced to community service can vote under a law passed in 2017. www.coe.int/en/web/execu...

aug 5, 2025, 5:10 am • 2 0 • view