A popular Instagram vlogger from Russia’s northwestern Komi region, Aleksandr Tretyakov (@tretyakov034), posted a video on September 9 in which he offered to “personally” pay 500 rubles (about $7) to anyone over the age of 18 who is registered in Komi.
RFE/RL: Vlogger in Russia allegedly offers money to vote ‘for whom I tell you’
A woman walks past a poster announcing the upcoming election to the Russian State Duma, the lower chamber of Russia's parliament, in the southern city of Krasnodar on Sept. 6, 2021.
