Election in Russia's Far East to be re-run after fraud scandal

FILE PHOTO: Andrei Tarasenko, the acting head of Russia's Primorsky region, attends a session of the International Far Eastern Maritime Show in the far eastern city of Vladivostok, Russia July 27, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Maltsev

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) - A regional election in Russia's Far East will be re-run, the local election commission said on Thursday, dealing a rare blow to the Kremlin after allegations the vote had been rigged in its candidate's favour.

The ruling, in Russia's Primorsky Region which includes the Pacific port of Vladivostok, 6,400 km (4,000 miles) east of Moscow, came a day after Russia's top election official recommended that the election be re-run.