A voter studies a candidate information broadsheet at a polling station during the Moscow city parliament election in Moscow, Russia September 8, 2019. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow citizens voted on Sunday in some of the most closely observed regional elections in years, after the exclusion of many opposition candidates triggered huge protests in the capital.
The protests began in mid-July after the Central Election Commission refused to register of large numbers of candidates, saying they had failed to collect enough signatures from genuine backers - a response that President Vladimir Putin endorsed on Sunday after casting his ballot.
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