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Russia opens three-day voting in parliamentary elections aimed at consolidating Kremlin power

Russia opens three-day voting in parliamentary elections aimed at consolidating Kremlin power

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September 18th, 2026

Russia opens three-day voting in parliamentary elections aimed at consolidating Kremlin power

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On Friday, Russians embarked upon three days of voting in the nation's first-ever wartime parliamentary election, held in the absence of any substantive opposition, and it is all but certain that this election will entrench the Kremlin's political dominance.

๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์ธ๋“ค์€ ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ, ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์ธ ์•ผ๋‹น์ด ๋ถ€์žฌํ•œ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ์ƒ ์ดˆ์œ ์˜ ์ „์‹œ ์˜ํšŒ ์„ ๊ฑฐ์—์„œ 3์ผ๊ฐ„์˜ ํˆฌํ‘œ์— ๋Œ์ž…ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ํฌ๋ ˜๋ฆฐ์˜ ์ •์น˜์  ์ง€๋ฐฐ๋ ฅ์ด ๊ณต๊ณ ํ•ด์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ํ™•์‹ค์‹œ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

In an effort to boost turnout among an electorate numbering 111 million, the authorities extended voting through the weekend, closing it on Sunday, and went so far as to permit electronic voting.

๋‹น๊ตญ์€ 1์–ต 1,100๋งŒ ๋ช…์— ๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์˜ ํˆฌํ‘œ์œจ์„ ์ œ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€ ์—ฐ์žฅํ•˜์—ฌ ์ผ์š”์ผ์— ๋งˆ๊ฐํ•˜๋„๋ก ์กฐ์น˜ํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€ ์ „์ž ํˆฌํ‘œ๊นŒ์ง€ ํ—ˆ์šฉํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

According to the Central Election Commission, turnout by late Friday, including online voting, stood at a mere 30 percent.

์ค‘์•™์„ ๊ฑฐ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์œ„์›ํšŒ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ํˆฌํ‘œ๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ ๋Šฆ์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ๊นŒ์ง€์˜ ํˆฌํ‘œ์œจ์€ ์•ฝ 30%์— ๊ทธ์ณค๋‹ค.

Through this parliamentary election, the first to be held since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Kremlin seeks to highlight popular support for the war and lend a veneer of legitimacy to its actions.

ํฌ๋ ˜๋ฆฐ์€ 2022๋…„ ์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜ ์ „๋ฉด ์นจ๊ณต ์ดํ›„ ์ตœ์ดˆ๋กœ ์น˜๋Ÿฌ์ง€๋Š” ์ด ์˜ํšŒ ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ „์Ÿ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋Œ€์ค‘์  ์ง€์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ถ€๊ฐ์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์˜ ํ–‰๋™์— ์ •๋‹น์„ฑ์˜ ์™ธ๊ด€์„ ๋ถ€์—ฌํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•œ๋‹ค.

By eradicating even the faintest signs of opposition, the Kremlin sought to avert any political risk whatsoever.

ํฌ๋ ˜๋ฆฐ์€ ๋ฏธ๋ฏธํ•œ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€์˜ ์ง•ํ›„์กฐ์ฐจ ๋ง์‚ดํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์–ด๋– ํ•œ ์ •์น˜์  ์œ„ํ—˜๋„ ํšŒํ”ผํ•˜๋ ค ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Ahead of the vote, President Vladimir Putin declared to the nation, "Your choice and resolve will once again demonstrate that millions of people stand behind our warriors, and that we are a single people bound together by shared values, historical memory, and love for the motherland."

๋ธ”๋ผ๋””๋ฏธ๋ฅด ํ‘ธํ‹ด ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์€ ํˆฌํ‘œ์— ์•ž์„œ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์„ ํ–ฅํ•ด "์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ์„ ํƒ๊ณผ ๊ฒฐ์˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๋ช…์˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ „์‚ฌ๋“ค ๋’ค์— ์„œ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ณต์œ ๋œ ๊ฐ€์น˜์™€ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์  ๊ธฐ์–ต, ์กฐ๊ตญ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์†๋œ ๋‹จ์ผํ•œ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์žฌ์ฐจ ์ž…์ฆํ•  ๊ฒƒ"์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์–ธ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The Kremlin announced that Putin had cast his vote online on Friday, while simultaneously releasing an image capturing him seated before a computer screen.

ํฌ๋ ˜๋ฆฐ์€ ํ‘ธํ‹ด์ด ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ์— ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ์œผ๋กœ ํˆฌํ‘œ๋ฅผ ํ–‰์‚ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ณตํ‘œํ•˜๋Š” ํ•œํŽธ, ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ ํ™”๋ฉด ์•ž์— ์•‰์•„ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋‹ด์€ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋ฅผ ๊ณต๊ฐœํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

United Russia, the Kremlin's dominant party, is almost certain to continue wielding overwhelming control over the State Duma, the lower house of parliament.

ํฌ๋ ˜๋ฆฐ์˜ ์ฃผ๋„์  ์ •๋‹น์ธ ํ†ตํ•ฉ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„๋Š” ํ•˜์›์ธ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋‘๋งˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์••๋„์  ํ†ต์ œ๋ ฅ์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ–‰์‚ฌํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ฑฐ์˜ ํ™•์‹ค์‹œ๋œ๋‹ค.

A multitude of small parties of a 'systemic opposition' character, which align their votes with the government on every pivotal issue, are likewise expected to retain their seats.

๋ชจ๋“  ํ•ต์‹ฌ ํ˜„์•ˆ์—์„œ ์ •๋ถ€์™€ ๋ณด์กฐ๋ฅผ ๋งž์ถ”์–ด ํ‘œ๊ฒฐ์— ์ž„ํ•˜๋Š” '์ฒด์ œ ๋‚ด ์•ผ๋‹น' ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์˜ ๋‹ค์ˆ˜ ์†Œ๊ทœ๋ชจ ์ •๋‹น๋“ค ์—ญ์‹œ ์˜์„์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋ง๋œ๋‹ค.

Voters are required to complete two separate ballots: by means of one of these, they fill half of the total 450 seats by selecting a party listed on the ballot, while the remaining half is determined through contests in single-member constituencies, in which voters choose individual candidates.

์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์€ ๋‘ ๊ฐœ์˜ ๋ณ„๋„ ํˆฌํ‘œ์šฉ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ž‘์„ฑํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ทธ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋กœ ์ด 450์„์˜ ์˜์„ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜์„ ํˆฌํ‘œ์šฉ์ง€์— ๋ช…์‹œ๋œ ์ •๋‹น์„ ์„ ํƒํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์ฑ„์šฐ๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜์€ ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๊ฐ€ ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ ํ›„๋ณด์ž๋ฅผ ์„ ํƒํ•˜๋Š” ๋‹จ์ผ ์„ ๊ฑฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ฒฐ์ •๋œ๋‹ค.

The Russians who consented to interviews with Reporters articulated a multifaceted array of expectations surrounding the election.

๋ฆฌํฌํ„ฐ์Šค์™€์˜ ์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐ์— ์‘ํ•œ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์ธ๋“ค์€ ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์‹ธ๊ณ  ๋‹ค๊ธฐํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ํ‘œ์ถœํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Earlier this week, Dmitry Kirillin of Moscow expressed his desire to witness a change whereby a different political party would assume power.

๋ชจ์Šคํฌ๋ฐ”์˜ ๋“œ๋ฏธํŠธ๋ฆฌ ํ‚ค๋ฆด๋ฆฐ์€ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ ์ดˆ, ๊ถŒ์ขŒ์— ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ •๋‹น์ด ๋“ค์–ด์„œ๋Š” ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ชฉ๋„ํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์„ ํ‘œ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

However, Moscow resident Alexander Vertukhin was adamant: "What United Russia and the Communist Party are doing is sufficient; their platforms encompass everything."

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋ชจ์Šคํฌ๋ฐ” ์‹œ๋ฏผ ์•Œ๋ ‰์‚ฐ๋” ๋ฒ ๋ฅดํˆฌํžŒ์€ "ํ†ตํ•ฉ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์™€ ๊ณต์‚ฐ๋‹น์ด ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์ด ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•˜๋‹ค; ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๊ฐ•๋ น์€ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ํฌ๊ด„ํ•œ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ํ™•์‹ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

At a polling station in Moscow on Friday, pensioner Galina Babilova stated that she considers ending the war in Ukraine to be "of course the most important matter."

๊ธˆ์š”์ผ ๋ชจ์Šคํฌ๋ฐ”์˜ ํ•œ ํˆฌํ‘œ์†Œ์—์„œ ์—ฐ๊ธˆ ์ˆ˜๊ธ‰์ž์ธ ๊ฐˆ๋ฆฌ๋‚˜ ๋ฐ”๋นŒ๋กœ๋ฐ”๋Š” ์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜ ์ „์Ÿ์„ ์ข…์‹์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด "๋ฌผ๋ก  ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ผ"์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

She said, "That is the most important thing right now.

๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” "๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ง€๊ธˆ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ผ์ด๋‹ค.

Everyone wants peace; ultimately, that is what it comes down to.

๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ํ‰ํ™”๋ฅผ ์›ํ•œ๋‹ค, ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

That our young people stay safe and healthy."

์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ Š์€์ด๋“ค์ด ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ"์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Another pensioner, Lyudmila Kalinina, expressed her wish that life would "stabilize for the better" and that "the glaring gap between the ultra-wealthy and the desperately poor would be brought to an end โ€” after all, not a few people are unable to enjoy such a sweet life."

๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์—ฐ๊ธˆ ์ˆ˜๊ธ‰์ž์ธ ๋ฅ˜๋“œ๋ฐ€๋ผ ์นผ๋ฆฌ๋‹ˆ๋‚˜๋Š” ์‚ถ์ด "๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ์•ˆ์ •๋˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ", ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  "์ดˆ๋ถ€์œ ์ธต๊ณผ ๊ทน๋นˆ์ธต ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ํ˜„์ €ํ•œ ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ์ข…์‹๋˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ โ€” ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์ ์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ด๋“ค์ด ๊ทธํ† ๋ก ๋‹ฌ์ฝคํ•œ ์‚ถ์„ ๋ˆ„๋ฆฌ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ"์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์—ผ์›ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Vladimir Chubarev, a 72-year-old professor, expressed his wish that "every important initiative our government pursues should succeed," adding, "and, of course, for victory."

72์„ธ์˜ ๊ต์ˆ˜ ๋ธ”๋ผ๋””๋ฏธ๋ฅด ์ถ”๋ฐ”๋ ˆํ”„๋Š” "์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๊ฐ€ ์„ฑ๊ณตํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ" ๋ฐ”๋ž€๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ "๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์Šน๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค.

The liberal Yabloko party, the only registered political party that has mustered the courage to criticize the war, was barred from the ballot last month by Russia's Supreme Court, and it is fielding only a few dozen candidates in single-mandate district races.

์ „์Ÿ ๋น„ํŒ์˜ ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ฒœ๋ช…ํ•œ ์œ ์ผํ•œ ๋“ฑ๋ก ์ •๋‹น์ธ ์ž์œ ์ฃผ์˜ ์•ผ๋ธ”๋กœ์ฝ”๋‹น์€ ์ง€๋‚œ๋‹ฌ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„ ๋Œ€๋ฒ•์›์— ์˜ํ•ด ํˆฌํ‘œ์šฉ์ง€์—์„œ ๋ฐฐ์ œ๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋‹จ์ผ ์„ ๊ฑฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฝ์„ ์— ์ถœ๋งˆํ•œ ํ›„๋ณด๋Š” ์ˆ˜์‹ญ ๋ช…์— ๋ถˆ๊ณผํ•˜๋‹ค.

Moreover, some antiwar politicians were detained before the campaign even began, or else found themselves compelled to flee abroad.

๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๋ฐ˜์ „ ์„ฑํ–ฅ ์ •์น˜์ธ๋“ค์€ ์„ ๊ฑฐ ์šด๋™ ๊ฐœ์‹œ ์ „์— ๊ตฌ๊ธˆ๋˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ•ด์™ธ๋กœ ๋ง๋ช…ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค.

This election is being held after a summer in which Ukraine's long-range drone strikes on Russian oil refineries precipitated a widespread fuel crisis.

์ด๋ฒˆ ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋Š” ์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜์˜ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„ ์ •์œ  ๊ณต์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์žฅ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ๋“œ๋ก  ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ด ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ์—ฐ๋ฃŒ ์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ด‰๋ฐœํ•œ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ์ดํ›„์— ์น˜๋Ÿฌ์ง„๋‹ค.

The warehouses of the online retailers Wildberries and Ozon likewise became targets of attack.

์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด์ธ ์™€์ผ๋“œ๋ฒ ๋ฆฌ์Šค์™€ ์˜ค์กด์˜ ์ฐฝ๊ณ  ์—ญ์‹œ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ ๋Œ€์ƒ์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

These strikes have exacerbated Russia's economic predicament and drawn the war into the daily lives of millions.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํƒ€๊ฒฉ์€ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์˜ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ๋‚œ์ œ๋ฅผ ์‹ฌํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๋ช…์˜ ์ผ์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ „์Ÿ์„ ๋Œ์–ด๋“ค์˜€๋‹ค.

Local officials reported that polling stations in Sochi, a resort city on Russia's Black Sea coast, were temporarily closed due to the threat of drone attacks.

๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„ ํ‘ํ•ด ์—ฐ์•ˆ ํœด์–‘๋„์‹œ ์†Œ์น˜์—์„œ ๋“œ๋ก  ๊ณต๊ฒฉ ์œ„ํ˜‘์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ํˆฌํ‘œ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ์ผ์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ์‡„๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ง€์—ญ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋“ค์ด ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

According to Ella Pamfilova, chairwoman of the Central Election Commission, a polling station in the Krasnodar region had to be relocated to another site after a drone shattered its windows.

์ค‘์•™์„ ๊ฑฐ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์œ„์›ํšŒ ์œ„์›์žฅ ์—˜๋ผ ํŒœํ•„๋กœ๋ฐ”์— ์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด, ํฌ๋ผ์Šค๋…ธ๋‹ค๋ฅด ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ํ•œ ํˆฌํ‘œ์†Œ๋Š” ๋“œ๋ก ์ด ์ฐฝ๋ฌธ์„ ์‚ฐ์‚ฐ์กฐ๊ฐ๋‚ธ ํƒ“์— ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์žฅ์†Œ์— ์žฌ์„ค์น˜ํ•ด์•ผ๋งŒ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

For the first time, this parliamentary election will involve residents of four Ukrainian regions that Moscow illegally annexed after the outbreak of the war but has still failed to bring under complete control.

์ตœ์ดˆ๋กœ, ๋ณธ ์˜ํšŒ ์„ ๊ฑฐ์—๋Š” ์ „์Ÿ ๊ฐœ์‹œ ์ดํ›„ ๋ชจ์Šคํฌ๋ฐ”๊ฐ€ ๋ถˆ๋ฒ•์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ‘ํ•ฉํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋‚˜ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์™„์ „ํ•œ ํ†ต์ œ๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ฆฝํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ๋„ค ๊ฐœ์˜ ์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜ ์ง€์—ญ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์ด ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค.

Voting will also take place in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula illegally annexed by Russia in 2014.

2014๋…„ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์— ์˜ํ•ด ๋ถˆ๋ฒ• ๋ณ‘ํ•ฉ๋œ ํ‘ํ•ด ๋ฐ˜๋„ ํฌ๋ฆผ์—์„œ๋„ ํˆฌํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ์‹ค์‹œ๋œ๋‹ค.

At a polling station under Russian occupation in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, voters deposited their ballots into the ballot box, while an armed Russian soldier stood nearby, keeping watch over the proceedings.

๋™๋ถ€ ์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜ ๋ˆetsk ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„ ์ ๋ น ํ•˜์— ์žˆ๋Š” ํ•œ ํˆฌํ‘œ์†Œ์—์„œ ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์ด ํˆฌํ‘œํ•จ์— ํˆฌํ‘œ์šฉ์ง€๋ฅผ ํˆฌ์ž…ํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฌด์žฅํ•œ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„ ๊ตฐ์ธ์ด ์ธ๊ทผ์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์‹œํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

During a meeting with officials, Putin asserted that Ukraine was attempting to disrupt the voting, and he cited a Ukrainian attack in the Zaporizhzhia region that killed the head of a polling station.

ํ‘ธํ‹ด์€ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ํšŒ์˜์—์„œ ์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ํˆฌํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉํ•ดํ•˜๋ ค ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์žํฌ๋ฆฌ์ž ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ํˆฌํ‘œ์†Œ์žฅ์„ ์‚ดํ•ดํ•œ ์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜์˜ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์„ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

According to Pamfilova, in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region, 14 polling stations are relying on emergency power as a consequence of Ukrainian drones damaging power lines.

ํŒœํ•„๋กœ๋ฐ”์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„๊ฐ€ ์ ๋ นํ•œ ๋ฃจ๊ฐ„์Šคํฌ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜ ๋“œ๋ก ์ด ์ „๋ ฅ์„ ์„ ํ›ผ์†ํ•œ ์—ฌํŒŒ๋กœ 14๊ฐœ ํˆฌํ‘œ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋น„์ƒ ์ „์›์— ์˜์กดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค.

Separately, Russian officials reported that a polling station chief lost his life and another individual sustained injuries earlier this week in a Ukrainian attack in the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia region.

๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋“ค์€ ์ด์™€๋Š” ๋ณ„๊ฐœ๋กœ, ๊ธˆ์ฃผ ์ดˆ ์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜์˜ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„๊ฐ€ ํ†ต์ œํ•˜๋Š” ์žํฌ๋ฆฌ์ž ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ํˆฌํ‘œ์†Œ์žฅ์ด ๋ชฉ์ˆจ์„ ์žƒ๊ณ  ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ•œ ๋ช…์ด ๋ถ€์ƒ์„ ๋‹นํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ „ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The Ukrainian side did not immediately offer any comment on these allegations.

์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜ ์ธก์€ ์ด ํ˜์˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ฆ‰๊ฐ์ ์ธ ๋…ผํ‰์„ ๋‚ด๋†“์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.

The authorities in Kyiv have denounced the voting in Russian-occupied territories as illegal, urged foreign governments and international organizations not to recognize the elections, and warned Ukrainians that they could face criminal liability should they take part in organizing the vote.

ํ‚ค์ด์šฐ ๋‹น๊ตญ์€ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„ ์ ๋ น ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ์˜ ํˆฌํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋ถˆ๋ฒ•์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋น„๋‚œํ•˜๊ณ , ์™ธ๊ตญ ์ •๋ถ€์™€ ๊ตญ์ œ ๊ธฐ๊ตฌ์— ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ์ธ์ •ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ง ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ด‰๊ตฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜์ธ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํˆฌํ‘œ ์กฐ์ง์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ํ˜•์‚ฌ ์ฑ…์ž„์„ ์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Christian Wigand, a spokesperson for the European Commission, likewise characterised the voting conducted in Russian-occupied territories as "illegal" and declared that the European Union unequivocally condemns it.

์œ ๋Ÿฝ์—ฐํ•ฉ ์ง‘ํ–‰์œ„์›ํšŒ ๋Œ€๋ณ€์ธ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šคํ‹ฐ์•ˆ ๋น„๊ฐ„ํŠธ ์—ญ์‹œ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„ ์ ๋ น ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ์žํ–‰๋œ ํˆฌํ‘œ๋ฅผ "๋ถˆ๋ฒ•"์œผ๋กœ ๊ทœ์ •ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์œ ๋Ÿฝ์—ฐํ•ฉ์ด ์ด๋ฅผ ๋‹จํ˜ธํžˆ ๊ทœํƒ„ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฒœ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He stated, "These so-called elections constitute yet another flagrant violation of international law.

๊ทธ๋Š” "์ด๋ฅธ๋ฐ” ์ด ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋Š” ๊ตญ์ œ๋ฒ•์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋…ธ๊ณจ์ ์ธ ์œ„๋ฐ˜์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ธ๋‹ค.

The European Union does not, and never will, recognise the holding or the results of these so-called elections, these sham elections, in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine," he said.

์œ ๋Ÿฝ์—ฐํ•ฉ์€ ์šฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋‚˜์˜ ์ผ์‹œ ์ ๋ น ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ด๋ฅธ๋ฐ” ์„ ๊ฑฐ, ๊ฐ€์งœ ์„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๊ฐœ์ตœ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ธ์ •ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ์ธ์ •ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ"์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Vigant stated that the manner in which the elections were conducted "underscores the persistent and deepening erosion of democracy in Russia," and that the Kremlin "deprives Russian voters of a genuine choice regarding the nation's future."

๋น„๊ฐ„ํŠธ๋Š” ์„ ๊ฑฐ๊ฐ€ ์‹ค์‹œ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด "๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์—์„œ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ด๊ณ  ์‹ฌํ™”๋˜๋Š” ์นจ์‹์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•œ๋‹ค"๋ฉฐ ํฌ๋ ˜๋ฆฐ์ด "๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„ ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์„ ํƒ์„ ๋ฐ•ํƒˆํ•œ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He further pointed out that Russia had flouted its commitments by deciding not to invite observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

๊ทธ๋Š” ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„๊ฐ€ ์œ ๋Ÿฝ์•ˆ๋ณดํ˜‘๋ ฅ๊ธฐ๊ตฌ(OSCE)์˜ ์ฐธ๊ด€์ธ์„ ์ดˆ๋น™ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ•œ ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์•ฝ์†์„ ๋ฌด์‹œํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ง€์ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He vowed that the European Union would continue to support Russian civil society organizations, human rights groups, and independent media.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์œ ๋Ÿฝ์—ฐํ•ฉ์ด ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„ ์‹œ๋ฏผ ์‚ฌํšŒ ๋‹จ์ฒด์™€ ์ธ๊ถŒ ๋‹จ์ฒด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋…๋ฆฝ ์–ธ๋ก ์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ง€์›ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งน์„ธํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Lorne Cook, based in Brussels, contributed to this report.

๋ธŒ๋คผ์…€ ์†Œ์žฌ ๋กœ๋ฅธ ์ฟก์ด ๊ธฐ๊ณ ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

September 18th, 2026

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