This footage was filmed and produced 19 September 2021.

Russia heads to the polls in the country’s parliamentary elections in which most vocal Kremlin critics have been barred from running. The jailed Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny and his allies may not be running in the September 19 parliamentary election but they had hoped to challenge President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party with a strategy known as “Smart Voting”. But the app, created by Navalny and other opposition leaders, was removed from Apple and Google stores on Friday, the day Russians started casting their ballots.

The video shows a man being detained with a poster «Freedom for political prisoners!» during the country’s parliamentary elections.