Russians vote in parliamentary elections

A woman reads her ballot paper in Klukino, 290 miles from Moscow Photograph: Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters

A woman casts her vote at a polling station in Moscow Photograph: Maxim Shipenkov/EPA

A woman fills in a voting form in her house in Gryaz, 290 miles west of Moscow Photograph: Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters

Sailors queue to cast their votes at a polling station at the Kronstadt naval base Photograph: Anatoly Maltsev/EPA

A man reads his ballot at a polling station in Tskhinvali, the capital of the South Ossetia Photograph: Mikhail Mordasov/AFP/Getty Images

Members of the Polar Bear sports club cast their ballots at a polling station in Barnaul, capital of Altai region Photograph: Andrei Kasprishin/Reuters

An election official knocks on the window of a house in the village of Prutskoi, in the Altai region Photograph: Andrei Kasprishin/Reuters

Police officers block the entrance to Red Square to keep protesters out Photograph: Ivan Sekretarev/AP

Opposition activists take part in a protest against vote rigging in St Petersburg Photograph: Dmitry Lovetsky/AP

Police in Moscow detain an activist during a protest rally by the opposition group Another Russia Photograph: Anton Golubev/Reuters

Police in Moscow detain an activist during a protest rally by an opposition group called Another Russia Photograph: Mikhail Voskresensky/Reuters

A man casts his ballot at his home in the village of Gryaz, 290 miles west of Moscow Photograph: Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters

Police detain an opposition activist during a protest against vote rigging in St Petersburg Photograph: Dmitry Lovetsky/AP