“There is no doubt that since foreign interference is always there, the pressure will significantly increase given the special military operation,” Peskov said.

Russian Central Election Commission (CEC) head, Ella Pamfilova, said earlier that the West is deliberately doing preparatory work to discredit the elections in this nation, because “undermining the society from within is important for them,” she added.

In his address to the Federal Assembly in February, President Vladimir Putin announced that local and regional elections in September and the presidential elections in 2024 would take place in strict compliance with the law.

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