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    "country": "RU",
    "country_name": "Russia",
    "date": "2026-09-20",
    "date_status": "declared",
    "kind": "legislative",
    "conditional": null,
    "timezone": "Europe/Moscow",
    "status": "finalising",
    "last_verified_at": "2026-09-25T11:25:00Z",
    "stale": true,
    "stale_reason": "state-duma: election-night was expected by 2026-09-21T18:00:00Z and has not been observed yet",
    "provenance": {
      "from": "researcher agent 2026-09-25: Interfax (1117420, 1117330, 1118457, 1118465), RTVI 18 Sep 2026, Meduza 20 Sep 2026, Russian and English Wikipedia (leads); CEC sites cikrf.ru / izbirkom.ru unreachable (connection refused)",
      "licence": "CC BY 4.0 (Election Index)"
    },
    "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/russia-legislative-2026",
    "races": [
      {
        "id": "state-duma",
        "key": "russia-legislative-2026/state-duma",
        "name": "State Duma",
        "body": "legislature-lower",
        "seats": 450,
        "polls_close_utc": "2026-09-20T18:00:00Z",
        "authority": {
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          "name": "Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation",
          "name_local": "Центральная избирательная комиссия Российской Федерации",
          "role": "electoral-commission",
          "homepage": "http://www.cikrf.ru/",
          "results_index": "http://www.izbirkom.ru/region/izbirkom",
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        "status": "finalising",
        "expected_stage_now": "final-result",
        "observed": false,
        "final_observed": null,
        "final_expected": {
          "from": "2026-09-24T21:00:00Z",
          "by": "2026-10-05T20:59:59Z",
          "confidence": "announced",
          "basis": "CEC chair Ella Pamfilova, 21 Sep 2026: final results were planned for 25 Sep, after regional commissions had considered complaints (Interfax, https://www.interfax.ru/russia/1117420). Legal outer limit: the CEC determines the overall result no later than 5 Oct 2026 (RTVI, 18 Sep 2026) — end of 5 Oct MSK (UTC+3). Interfax reported on 25 Sep 2026 at 12:34 MSK that CEC members signed the protocols approving the result (https://www.interfax.ru/russia/1118457); observedAt is left unset because the CEC's own page (cikrf.ru / izbirkom.ru) could not be reached to confirm it."
        },
        "stages": [
          {
            "stage": "election-night",
            "from": "2026-09-20T18:00:00Z",
            "by": "2026-09-21T18:00:00Z",
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "estimate",
            "citation": "Estimate: the CEC's preliminary count starts once the last polls close (Kaliningrad, 20:00 local = 18:00 UTC on 20 Sep) and runs through the next day. Press reports of this count (secondary, not the CEC itself): 79.08% of protocols processed by 21 Sep 05:30 MSK (Interfax, https://www.interfax.ru/russia/1117330); 95.18% at 11:00 MSK 21 Sep (Meduza, citing the CEC); 97.64% at 20:31 MSK 21 Sep (English Wikipedia). This is a preliminary count, not the final result.",
            "source": null,
            "observedAt": null,
            "observedSource": null
          },
          {
            "stage": "final-result",
            "from": "2026-09-24T21:00:00Z",
            "by": "2026-10-05T20:59:59Z",
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "announced",
            "citation": "CEC chair Ella Pamfilova, 21 Sep 2026: final results were planned for 25 Sep, after regional commissions had considered complaints (Interfax, https://www.interfax.ru/russia/1117420). Legal outer limit: the CEC determines the overall result no later than 5 Oct 2026 (RTVI, 18 Sep 2026) — end of 5 Oct MSK (UTC+3). Interfax reported on 25 Sep 2026 at 12:34 MSK that CEC members signed the protocols approving the result (https://www.interfax.ru/russia/1118457); observedAt is left unset because the CEC's own page (cikrf.ru / izbirkom.ru) could not be reached to confirm it.",
            "source": null,
            "observedAt": null,
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        "sources": [
          {
            "url": "http://www.izbirkom.ru/region/izbirkom",
            "role": "results-final",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "no election or results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "CEC results index (izbirkom.ru), not a single-election page. Unreachable from this researcher's network on 2026-09-25 (connection refused), so the URL of this election's own results page could not be read or recorded.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "http://cikrf.ru/analog/ediny-den-golosovaniya-2026/kategorii-viborov/vybory-deputatov-gosudarstvennoy-dumy-federalnogo-sobraniya-rossiyskoy-federatsii-devyatogo-sozyva/kalendarnyy-plan-meropriyatiy-po-podgotovke-i-provedeniyu-vyborov-deputatov-gosudarstvennoy-dumy-fed/",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "CEC calendar plan for the ninth-convocation State Duma election (published 17 Jun 2026). URL taken from the Wikipedia references; cikrf.ru was unreachable on 2026-09-25, so it was not read directly.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://rtvi.com/news/v-rossii-nachalis-vybory-v-gosdumu-18-20-sentyabrya-2026/",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
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            "origin": "race",
            "note": "RTVI, 18 Sep 2026 (secondary): voting 18–20 Sep, polling stations open 8:00–20:00 local time, CEC to determine the overall result no later than 5 Oct.",
            "check": null
          },
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            "role": "see-also",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Interfax, 25 Sep 2026 12:34 MSK (secondary): CEC members signed the protocols approving the results of the ninth-convocation State Duma election at Friday's meeting.",
            "check": null
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            "kind": "emb_home",
            "kindReason": "site root: cannot answer a results question",
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            "origin": "authority",
            "check": null
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        "government": null,
        "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/russia-legislative-2026#state-duma"
      }
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