Russian legislative elections, won by the ruling party, United Russia, were marked by "frequent violations" in the count, in particular the introduction of the urn of additional ballots, according to a release issued Monday by election observers of the OSCE.
"The vote was well organized, but the quality has deteriorated considerably during the count, which was characterized by frequent violations of procedure, with severe signs of introducing additional ballots," said the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

The OSCE also found a "limited political competition and unfair" during the campaign and said "lack of independence" of the electoral authorities and the press.
Organization revealed that "despite" these irregularities, "voters have used to express the right choice."

"Changes are needed so that people will be respected," revealed an official of the observation mission, Petros Efthymiou, in a statement.

"We stressed in particular the state interference at all levels of political life, lack of conditions for fair competition and the absence of media independence," he added.

United Russia party of Vladimir Putin won Sunday's elections, winning an absolute majority in the Lower House of Parliament (Duma), with 238 deputies out of 450, a score that marks the important but a step backwards compared to 2007.

Russian independent media and NGO Golos has inventoried numerous fraud throughout the day on Sunday.

Russian Central Election Commission announced, in turn, that was not detected any noticeable fruadă.