The Kremlin’s Sham Elections Manufacture Legitimacy in Occupied Ukraine克里姆林宫在被占领的乌克兰通过虚假选举制造合法性。
The Kremlin used its staged and manufactured 2026 State Duma elections in occupied Ukraine as a de facto referendum on Russian occupation.

The Kremlin used the staged and manufactured 2026 State Duma elections in occupied Ukraine as a de facto referendum on Russian occupation, portraying participation in the election and support for United Russia as evidence of widespread acceptance of Russia’s illegal rule. The September 2026 State Duma elections are Russia’s nationwide parliamentary elections, during which Russians vote for 450 members of the Russian State Duma to serve five-year terms.[1] Half of the Duma’s 450 seats are voted on via a nation-wide party list, whereas the other half are decided via single-seat (also known as single-mandate) constituencies. The 2026 Duma elections, which occurred between September 18 and 20, were the first parliamentary elections since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and notably the first time parliamentary elections were held in occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia oblasts. The Kremlin set careful conditions in the run-up to the 2026 Duma elections to guarantee the ruling United Russia Party’s victory . Russian President Vladimir Putin succeeded in disqualifying Russian opposition party Yabloko from the State Duma elections in August 2026, eliminating the last vestige of so-called “controlled opposition” and denying Russians the option to support the party’s pro-ceasefire stance.[2] United Russia, which previously enjoyed a 310-seat supermajority, has secured 347 Duma seats (58 percent of the vote) as of September 23.[3] The Russian Central Election Commission (CEC) will announce final results on September 25. United Russia’s top five federal Duma candidates were all long-standing Putin loyalists such as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Russian Yunarmia Chief of the General Staff Captain Vladislav Golovin, Moscow City Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, Kremlin-appointed Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova, and Kremlin-coopted and Kremlin-awarded Russian milblogger Yevgeny Poddubny.[4] United Russia formally claimed to be Russian President Vladimir Putin’s party for the first time since 2007 and officially articulated its identity as the pro-war party in the run-up to the September 18-20 elections.[5] The Kremlin has used both the preparations for the Duma election and United Russia’s victory as evidence that the Russian people support a protracted war and are ready to make extensive social sacrifices in the name of Russian victory.[6]
Elections in Occupied Ukraine, 2014 – 2026
The Kremlin has used the staging and management of broader electoral processes in occupied Ukraine since 2014 as critical tools of its wider occupation playbook. Shortly after the Russian invasion of the Crimean Peninsula in February 2014, pro-Russian officials held an internationally condemned referendum on the annexation of Crimea to Russia.[7] Russian state media claimed that almost 97 percent of the population of Crimea voted in favor of “reunification” with Russia and used the outcome of the referendum as evidence of grassroots support for its occupation of the peninsula.[8] The Ukrainian government and international organizations widely condemned the referendum, noting that it took place under intense conditions of militarization, in the absence of independent international observers, and with clearly falsified attendance statistics and manipulated ballots. Russia similarly held sham referenda in occupied Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts — the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics (DNR and LNR) — in 2014 using many of the same machinations as it used in Crimea.[9] While the 2014 annexation referenda differ from more traditional candidate elections such as subsequent gubernatorial, presidential, and parliamentary elections, they are indicative of the Kremlin’s wider electoral manipulation logic : Russia securitizes and militarizes the occupied area to create an atmosphere of coercion, employs voting mechanisms that are easy to co-opt and manipulate, and uses the manufactured results of the election as proof of legality and legitimacy .[10] The Kremlin applied this same toolkit to the 2022 annexation referenda in occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson oblasts, which took place between September 23 and 27, 2022. Ukrainian sources and international organizations such as Human Rights Watch reported that occupation officials and armed Russian law enforcement and military personnel coerced residents into voting to “join” Russia.[11] Russian occupation officials claimed that 99.23 percent of voters in occupied Donetsk Oblast, 98.42 percent in occupied Luhansk Oblast, 87.05 percent in occupied Kherson Oblast, and 93.11 percent in occupied Zaporizhia Oblast voted in favor of Russian annexation, leading to Putin’s announcement of the “official” annexation of all of these four oblasts — including parts that Russia still does not control almost exactly four years later.[12] Occupation officials then similarly manufactured the outcomes of the 2023 local/ regional and 2024 presidential elections in occupied Ukraine. DNR Head Denis Pushilin, LNR Head Leonid Pasechnik, Zaporizhia Oblast occupation head Yevgeny Balitsky, and Kherson Oblast occupation head Vladimir Saldo all submitted their candidacies as official United Russia gubernatorial candidates in what was a staged formality.[13] The election mechanics were built to control the turnout. Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) units reportedly deployed to major population hubs in occupied areas, while armed law enforcement and military personnel reportedly accompanied election commission officials to door-to-door house calls to coerce residents to fill out ballots.[14] Early voting was heavily encouraged, likely to give occupation officials additional time to manage ballots and results.[15] The four United Russia candidates won between 74 and 83 percent of the vote across all four occupied oblasts, in line with Ukrainian estimates that occupation authorities had pre-determined votes in the 75 to 80 percent range.[16] When Putin “ran” for his sixth presidential term in March 2024, occupation officials used the same tactics to guarantee his decisive victory and claim that residents of occupied Ukraine broadly supported Putin’s leadership.[17] The Russian CEC claimed that Putin had higher levels of support in parts of occupied Ukraine than some Russian regions.[18]
September 2026 State Duma elections
The Russian occupation apparatus has employed a diverse range of tactics since 2025 to execute the election management toolkit and manufacture United Russia’s parliamentary victory in occupied Ukraine:
The Russian CEC approved a new scheme in April 2025 that re-distributed single-mandate constituencies to include occupied Ukraine in the existing Russian constituency system.[19] The new scheme allocated seven of the existing 225 single-mandate constituencies to occupied Ukraine — three in occupied Donetsk Oblast, two in occupied Luhansk Oblast, and one each in occupied Kherson and Zaporizhia oblasts, meaning that seven candidates from occupied Ukraine could be selected via single-mandate constituencies and 11 via party lists.[20] Two of occupied Donetsk Oblast’s new single-mandate constituencies — the Donetsk and Horlivka okrugs — notably include areas of Donetsk Oblast that Russia has not yet occupied, including the operationally-significant Fortress Belt settlements of Kramatorsk and Slovyansk.[21] Russia is likely to use this administrative fact for informational effect, setting conditions to claim that these areas “voted” as Russian subjects and therefore should be considered Russian territories even if Russian forces do not control them. The inclusion of territory that Russian forces do not occupy demonstrates that the Kremlin is using constituency design not only to administer elections but also to reinforce territorial claims. The CEC’s single-mandate constituency regulations serve dual purposes: they integrated occupied Ukraine into Russia’s wider electoral bureaucracy and additionally gave Russian officials more ways to manipulate election results. Russian opposition sources have warned that the Kremlin typically has used the re-allocation of single-mandate constituencies (what amounts to re-districting) to create favorable conditions for approved candidates to win.[22] Russian redistribution of single-mandate constituencies helped favored candidates win in elections in occupied Crimea in 2016 and 2021, and likely heavily impacted election results in occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia oblasts in the Duma elections.[23]
One of the predominant means by which the Kremlin manages elections is by dictating who is even allowed to run for election in the first place, executed via the curation of candidate lists. Single-mandate constituencies shape candidate lists by defining how many candidates each geographic area is allowed to elect. United Russia announced its candidate lists for all single-mandate constituencies in occupied Ukraine in April 2026, effectively setting the expectation that its representatives would win handily months before the election took place.[24] United Russia notably nominated a slate of pro-war, pro-occupation candidates for the seven single-mandate constituencies in occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia oblasts.[25]
Many of the candidates who applied for inclusion on United Russia’s party lists in occupied Ukraine were additionally either active occupation administration officials or Russian armed forces personnel.[26] The formation of candidate lists in occupied Ukraine effectively assured the victory of pro-war, and by extension pro-occupation, United Russia candidates.
Russia expanded technological election infrastructure into occupied Ukraine in advance of the Duma elections. Head of the LNR occupation Electoral Commission Marina Sumskaya stated in June that occupied Luhansk Oblast’s electoral system had been fully integrated into the Russian one, and that elections would take place using the new “Vybory (Elections) 2.0” Russian state automated system (GAS).[27] GAS Vybory 2.0 is Russia’s official state information system for the automation and data management of elections, and the conduct of elections in occupied territories on Russian state-run software likely contributed to the fabrication of election results. A hacker group notably infiltrated the systems of GAS Vybory 2.0’s developer Tsifrtech in September 2026 and found unresolved critical errors in the software the week before the Duma elections.[28] The hackers determined that GAS Vybory 2.0 makes errors in determining the winners of single-mandate constituencies and that it included over 100,000 deceased residents of occupied Ukraine and Russia’s Kursk and Bryansk oblasts in its voter data.
The CEC approved a list of regulations in July pertaining to the conduct of elections in occupied Ukraine, including provisions that emphasized the importance of early and at-home voting and suggesting the shortening of the voting period to mitigate potential security risks.[29] Local election officials claimed that they paid special attention to early voting at people’s homes and workplaces and advertised the “Mobile Voter” mechanism, which allows voters to cast ballots wherever they are as opposed to at their registered address.[30] At-home and workplace voting is likely to have resulted in widespread voter intimidation, as election officials frequently conduct such visits in the presence of armed personnel.[31] Early voting also likely provided election officials additional time to manipulate ballots.
The 2026 Duma elections were carried out in an environment of intense militarization, echoing the conditions that Russia has imposed to intimidate voters in occupied Ukraine since 2014.[32] Occupation officials justified the presence of armed security personnel, including Rosgvardia officers, at polling places as necessary to protect against the threat of Ukrainian drone strikes. Footage posted on September 16 shows local election officials in occupied Donetsk Oblast visiting people’s homes alongside armed military personnel, and in one case shows a woman dropping a ballot into the ballot box held by an armed soldier.[33] A Reuters correspondent posted an image on September 15 showing an armed Russian soldier holding a ballot box as a woman nearby fills out voter documents in occupied Verbivka, Donetsk Oblast.[34] The ubiquitous presence of armed personnel undoubtedly impacted both voter turnout and election outcomes in occupied Ukraine, all but assuring that the elections were neither free nor fair.
United Russia candidates appear to have “won” across the board in occupied Ukraine, with alleged voter turnout exceeding Russian averages. The claimed voter turnout, while certainly inflated, is also likely in part a reflection of the intensive application of the election management toolkit in occupied areas. Russian media and election officials claimed that United Russia won 80.46 percent of the vote in occupied Donetsk Oblast; 78.99 percent in occupied Luhansk Oblast; 74.81 percent in occupied Kherson Oblast; and 79.83 percent in occupied Zaporizhia Oblast.[35] Claimed voter turnout in occupied Crimea was much lower than the other four occupied oblasts (where voter turnout was claimed to be around 80 percent), and United Russia allegedly won 60.70 percent of the vote — much closer to the claimed Russian average.[36] United Russia candidates Kuksenkova, Borodai, Makarov, Kolesnikov, Sanayev, Tikhomirov, and Dmitryuk won their respective single-mandate constituencies across occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia oblasts.[37]
The Kremlin will use United Russia’s victory in occupied Ukraine as a referendum on the occupation itself. Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson and United Russia Chairperson Dmitry Medvedev claimed that voter turnout in occupied Donetsk Oblast shows that residents have “a high degree of civic responsibility,” and Pushilin claimed that the elections show that occupied Donetsk Oblast wants to share its future with Russia.[38] Several local election officials claimed that the elections marked the “final” stage of occupied Ukraine’s “integration” into Russia and are a “collective act” of support for Russia.[39] A Russian political scientist told occupied Donetsk Oblast-based outlet Donetsk News Agency on September 21 that the election results and United Russia’s victory are evidence that occupied Ukraine has consolidated around Putin.[40] These various statements are indicative of two major narrative trends resulting from the elections: first, that high voter turnout in occupied Ukraine is the result of a grassroots civic mobilization around the concept of Russian integration. This aspect echoes how Russia has historically used the conduct and results of elections in occupied Ukraine to legitimize the facts of its illegal occupations.[41] Second, the Kremlin will use United Russia’s victory as evidence that residents of occupied Ukraine are fully supportive of the occupation itself. United Russia’s “People’s Program” — the long-term planning document it publishes built on citizen proposals and appeals on which its candidates campaign — emphasizes the role of “the development of Donbas and Novorossiya” as a United Russia campaign platform.[42] This particular platform alludes to the various socio-economic programs that Russia is implementing to consolidate physical and psychological control over occupied Ukraine. By ensuring United Russia’s victory, the Kremlin has effectively created the impression that residents of occupied Ukraine definitively voted for the continuation of the occupation. The Kremlin and Russian occupation officials will also use the election results as evidence of grassroots endorsement of Russia’s increasingly formalized official ideology amongst residents of occupied areas, which will set conditions for the Kremlin to continue to force residents of occupied Ukraine into making sacrifices for the Russian state in defense of this constructed and imposed ideology . United Russia itself has become increasingly militarized in the years since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, both in ideology and party make-up, which has featured increasing numbers of Russian veterans of the war in Ukraine on United Russia ballots.[43] Putin has gradually solidified United Russia’s position as a pro-war, and pro-Putin party, culminating in United Russia’s formal presentation as “Putin’s party” for the first time since 2007 in June 2026.[44] Putin officially charged United Russia to do “anything possible to achieve victory in Ukraine” in August 2022, linking the party’s pro-war, pro-Putin stance as a central part of Russia’s informal state ideology.[45] United Russia’s ideological militarization has immediate ramifications for occupied Ukraine. Regional occupation authorities tied United Russia’s victory to the propagation of Russian military-patriotic ideals during initial election preparations in early 2026.[46] Pasechnik, for example, stated on March 1 that his administration’s top election priority was the victory of “patriots, loyal to the interests of Russia.”[47] Several of the winning candidates in constituencies throughout occupied Ukraine are also notably involved in Russia’s war effort against Ukraine, echoing the gradual militarization of United Russia’s platform since 2022. Kuksenkova is a military correspondent and a volunteer with the People’s Front, and Borodai emphasized the fact that he was on the frontline as the commander of the 7th Assault Brigade (part of the Union of Donbas Volunteers, which Borodai founded) during the campaign season.[48] The Kremlin will use United Russia’s wins in occupied Ukraine as evidence that occupied areas are wholly supportive of Russia’s informal state ideology. By framing support for United Russia as support for Russia’s wartime political project, the Kremlin can argue that residents of occupied Ukraine have accepted corresponding obligations to the Russian state. Putin may use this as justification for some future form of mobilization, both in Russia and in occupied Ukraine.[49] Russian officials will undoubtedly weaponize the conduct of elections in occupied territories against the Ukrainian government in pursuit of a favorable end-state to the war in Ukraine. Russia has long insisted on Ukrainian elections as a precondition for negotiations.[50] Ukraine’s constitution and Ukrainian law explicitly forbid elections under martial law, which the Ukrainian government cannot legally suspend as long as Russia continues to attack and occupy Ukraine. Russia has purposefully misrepresented this fact of Ukrainian law to delegitimize the Ukrainian government over the backdrop of episodic negotiations attempts. Russia is likely to use the conduct of its elections in occupied Ukraine as evidence that Ukraine itself must hold elections. This unmeetable demand will likely further complicate future negotiations processes, which are a current point of discussion following recent US administration visits to Kyiv and Moscow and the ongoing United Nations General Assembly.[51] Russia’s elections in occupied Ukraine, however, have been widely condemned as illegal, coerced, and fabricated — which should weaken any Kremlin argument about Ukrainian elections.[52]
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克里姆林宫利用在被占领的乌克兰精心策划的2026年国家杜马选举,将其作为对俄罗斯占领的一次事实上的全民公投,并将参与选举和支持统一俄罗斯党的行为描绘成民众普遍接受俄罗斯非法统治的证据。2026年9月举行的国家杜马选举是俄罗斯全国性的议会选举,俄罗斯民众将投票选举450名国家杜马议员,任期五年。[1] 杜马450个席位中,一半通过全国政党名单选举产生,另一半则通过单一选区(也称单一任期)选举产生。2026年杜马选举于9月18日至20日举行,是自全面入侵乌克兰以来的首次议会选举,也是首次在被占领的顿涅茨克、卢甘斯克、赫尔松和扎波罗热州举行议会选举。克里姆林宫在2026年国家杜马选举前精心设置条件,以确保执政的统一俄罗斯党获胜。俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京成功取消了俄罗斯反对党“亚博卢”党参加2026年8月国家杜马选举的资格,彻底消除了所谓“受控反对派”的最后残余,并剥夺了俄罗斯民众支持该党支持停火立场的选择。[2] 截至9月23日,此前拥有310个席位的统一俄罗斯党已获得347个杜马席位(得票率为58%)。[3]俄罗斯中央选举委员会(CEC)将于9月25日公布最终结果。统一俄罗斯党在联邦杜马选举中的前五名候选人都是普京的长期忠实拥护者,包括俄罗斯外交部长谢尔盖·拉夫罗夫、俄罗斯海军总参谋长弗拉季斯拉夫·戈洛温上尉、莫斯科市市长谢尔盖·索比亚宁、克里姆林宫任命的儿童权利专员玛丽亚·利沃娃-别洛娃,以及克里姆林宫收买并嘉奖的俄罗斯军事博主叶夫根尼·波杜布尼。[4] 统一俄罗斯党自2007年以来首次正式宣称自己是俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京的政党,并在9月18日至20日的选举前夕正式表明其亲战政党的身份。[5]克里姆林宫利用杜马选举的筹备工作和统一俄罗斯党的胜利,作为俄罗斯人民支持持久战并准备为俄罗斯的胜利做出广泛社会牺牲的证据。[6]
2014-2026年被占领乌克兰的选举
自2014年以来,克里姆林宫一直利用在被占领的乌克兰境内组织和操控更广泛的选举进程,作为其更广泛占领策略的关键工具。2014年2月俄罗斯入侵克里米亚半岛后不久,亲俄官员举行了一场国际社会谴责的关于克里米亚并入俄罗斯的全民公投。[7] 俄罗斯国家媒体声称,近97%的克里米亚居民投票赞成与俄罗斯“重新统一”,并将公投结果作为民众支持其占领克里米亚的证据。[8] 乌克兰政府和国际组织广泛谴责了此次公投,指出公投是在高度军事化的环境下进行的,没有独立的国际观察员,而且投票率统计数据明显造假,选票也遭到操纵。俄罗斯也曾在 2014 年在被占领的顿涅茨克州和卢甘斯克州(即所谓的顿涅茨克人民共和国和卢甘斯克人民共和国)举行虚假公投,其手段与在克里米亚使用的许多手段如出一辙。[9]尽管2014年的吞并公投与随后的州长、总统和议会选举等更传统的候选人选举有所不同,但它体现了克里姆林宫更广泛的选举操纵逻辑:俄罗斯对占领区进行安全化和军事化,以营造胁迫氛围;采用易于收买和操纵的投票机制;并将人为制造的选举结果作为合法性和正当性的证明。[10] 克里姆林宫将同样的工具应用于2022年9月23日至27日在被占领的顿涅茨克、卢甘斯克、扎波罗热和赫尔松州举行的吞并公投。乌克兰方面和人权观察等国际组织报告称,占领官员和俄罗斯武装执法人员及军人胁迫居民投票“加入”俄罗斯。[11]俄罗斯占领官员声称,在被占领的顿涅茨克州,99.23%的选民投票赞成俄罗斯吞并;在被占领的卢甘斯克州,98.42%的选民投票赞成;在被占领的赫尔松州,87.05%的选民投票赞成;在被占领的扎波罗热州,93.11%的选民投票赞成。这导致普京宣布“正式”吞并这四个州——包括俄罗斯在近四年后仍然无法控制的部分地区。[12] 随后,占领官员以类似的方式操纵了被占领乌克兰2023年地方/区域选举和2024年总统选举的结果。顿涅茨克人民共和国领导人丹尼斯·普希林、卢甘斯克人民共和国领导人列昂尼德·帕谢奇尼克、扎波罗热州占领区领导人叶夫根尼·巴利茨基和赫尔松州占领区领导人弗拉基米尔·萨尔多均以统一俄罗斯党正式候选人的身份提交了候选人资格,但这不过是一场精心安排的作秀。[13] 选举机制旨在控制投票率。据报道,俄罗斯联邦安全局(FSB)部队被部署到被占领地区的主要人口中心,而武装执法人员和军方人员则陪同选举委员会官员挨家挨户走访,强迫居民填写选票。[14] 提前投票受到大力鼓励,很可能是为了让占领当局有更多时间来管理选票和计票结果。[15] 这四位统一俄罗斯党候选人在所有四个被占领州的得票率在74%到83%之间,这与乌克兰方面估计的占领当局预先设定的75%到80%的得票率相符。[16] 2024 年 3 月,普京竞选第六个总统任期时,占领当局使用了同样的策略来保证他取得决定性胜利,并声称被占领的乌克兰居民普遍支持普京的领导。[17] 俄罗斯中央选举委员会声称,普京在被占领的乌克兰部分地区的支持率高于俄罗斯某些地区的支持率。[18]
2026年9月国家杜马选举
自 2025 年以来,俄罗斯占领机构采用了多种策略来实施选举管理工具包,并制造统一俄罗斯党在被占领的乌克兰议会选举中获胜的局面:
俄罗斯中央选举委员会于2025年4月批准了一项新方案,重新分配单一选区,将占领的乌克兰纳入现有的俄罗斯选区制度。[19] 新方案将现有的225个单一选区中的7个分配给了占领的乌克兰——其中3个位于被占领的顿涅茨克州,2个位于被占领的卢甘斯克州,1个位于被占领的赫尔松州,1个位于被占领的扎波罗热州。这意味着,来自被占领的乌克兰的7名候选人可以通过单一选区选举产生,另有11名候选人可以通过政党名单选举产生。[20] 值得注意的是,被占领的顿涅茨克州新增的两个单一选区——顿涅茨克区和戈尔利夫卡区——包含了俄罗斯尚未占领的顿涅茨克州部分地区,其中包括具有重要作战意义的“要塞带”定居点克拉马托尔斯克和斯拉维扬斯克。[21]俄罗斯很可能利用这一行政事实来达到宣传目的,以此为由声称这些地区“投票”给了俄罗斯公民,因此即使俄军并未控制这些地区,也应被视为俄罗斯领土。将俄军未占领的领土纳入其中,表明克里姆林宫不仅利用选区划分来管理选举,还以此强化其领土主张。中央选举委员会的单一选区划分规定具有双重目的:一方面,它将被占领的乌克兰纳入俄罗斯更广泛的选举体系;另一方面,它为俄罗斯官员提供了更多操纵选举结果的手段。俄罗斯反对派人士警告说,克里姆林宫通常会利用重新划分单一选区(相当于重新划分选区)来为已获批准的候选人创造有利的胜选条件。[22]俄罗斯重新划分单一选区,帮助其支持的候选人在 2016 年和 2021 年被占领的克里米亚的选举中获胜,并且可能对被占领的顿涅茨克州、卢甘斯克州、赫尔松州和扎波罗热州的杜马选举结果产生了重大影响。[23]
克里姆林宫操控选举的主要手段之一是决定谁有资格参选,而这主要通过筛选候选人名单来实现。单一选区通过规定每个地区可以选出的候选人数量来决定候选人名单。统一俄罗斯党于2026年4月公布了其在被占领乌克兰所有单一选区的候选人名单,实际上在选举前几个月就已预示其代表将轻松获胜。[24] 值得注意的是,统一俄罗斯党在被占领的顿涅茨克州、卢甘斯克州、赫尔松州和扎波罗热州的七个单一选区提名了一批亲战、亲占领的候选人。[25]
许多申请加入统一俄罗斯党在被占领乌克兰的候选人名单的人,要么是现役占领当局官员,要么是俄罗斯武装部队人员。[26] 在被占领的乌克兰组建候选人名单,实际上确保了亲战的统一俄罗斯党候选人(进而也是亲占领的候选人)的胜利。
在国家杜马选举前夕,俄罗斯将技术选举基础设施扩展到了被占领的乌克兰。卢甘斯克人民共和国占领区选举委员会主席玛丽娜·苏姆斯卡娅在6月表示,被占领的卢甘斯克州的选举系统已完全并入俄罗斯系统,选举将使用新的俄罗斯国家自动化系统“Vybory 2.0”(选举2.0)进行。[27] GAS Vybory 2.0是俄罗斯官方的选举自动化和数据管理系统,在被占领土上使用俄罗斯国家软件进行选举很可能导致了选举结果的造假。值得注意的是,一个黑客组织在2026年9月入侵了GAS Vybory 2.0开发商Tsifrtech的系统,并在杜马选举前一周发现了该软件中尚未解决的关键错误。[28]黑客们发现,GAS Vybory 2.0 在确定单一选区获胜者时出现错误,并且其选民数据中包含了超过 10 万名来自被占领的乌克兰和俄罗斯库尔斯克州和布良斯克州的已故居民。
乌克兰中央选举委员会于7月批准了一系列关于在被占领的乌克兰境内进行选举的法规,其中包括强调提前投票和居家投票重要性的条款,并建议缩短投票时间以降低潜在的安全风险。[29] 地方选举官员声称,他们特别关注选民在家中和工作场所进行的提前投票,并宣传了“流动选民”机制,该机制允许选民在任何地方投票,而无需前往其登记地址。[30] 居家投票和工作场所投票很可能导致选民普遍受到恐吓,因为选举官员经常在武装人员在场的情况下进行此类访问。[31] 提前投票也可能为选举官员提供了更多篡改选票的时间。
2026年国家杜马选举在高度军事化的环境下进行,这与俄罗斯自2014年以来在被占领的乌克兰境内为恐吓选民而采取的手段如出一辙。[32] 占领当局官员辩称,在投票站部署包括俄罗斯国民近卫军在内的武装安保人员是为了防范乌克兰无人机袭击的威胁。9月16日发布的视频显示,在被占领的顿涅茨克州,地方选举官员与武装军人一同挨家挨户走访选民,其中一段视频显示,一名妇女将选票投入一名武装士兵手中的投票箱。[33] 9月15日,路透社记者发布了一张照片,照片显示,在被占领的顿涅茨克州韦尔比夫卡,一名武装的俄罗斯士兵手持投票箱,附近一名妇女正在填写选民登记表。[34]武装人员的普遍存在无疑影响了被占领乌克兰的投票率和选举结果,几乎可以肯定选举既不自由也不公正。
在被占领的乌克兰,统一俄罗斯党候选人似乎全面“获胜”,据称投票率超过了俄罗斯的平均水平。虽然声称的投票率肯定被夸大了,但也可能部分反映了在被占领地区广泛应用选举管理工具。俄罗斯媒体和选举官员声称,统一俄罗斯党在被占领的顿涅茨克州赢得了80.46%的选票;在被占领的卢甘斯克州赢得了78.99%的选票;在被占领的赫尔松州赢得了74.81%的选票;在被占领的扎波罗热州赢得了79.83%的选票。[35] 据称,在被占领的克里米亚,投票率远低于其他四个被占领州(据称这些州的投票率约为80%),统一俄罗斯党据称赢得了60.70%的选票——这更接近俄罗斯声称的平均水平。[36]统一俄罗斯党候选人库克森科娃、博罗代、马卡罗夫、科列斯尼科夫、萨纳耶夫、季霍米洛夫和德米特留克在被占领的顿涅茨克、卢甘斯克、赫尔松和扎波罗热州赢得了各自的单一委任选区。 [37]
克里姆林宫将利用统一俄罗斯党在被占领的乌克兰的胜利,作为对占领本身的一次全民公投。俄罗斯联邦安全会议副主席兼统一俄罗斯党主席德米特里·梅德韦杰夫声称,被占领的顿涅茨克州的投票率表明居民具有“高度的公民责任感”,普希林则声称,选举表明被占领的顿涅茨克州希望与俄罗斯共享未来。[38] 几位地方选举官员声称,此次选举标志着被占领的乌克兰“融入”俄罗斯的“最后”阶段,是支持俄罗斯的“集体行动”。[39] 一位俄罗斯政治学家于9月21日告诉位于被占领的顿涅茨克州的顿涅茨克通讯社,选举结果和统一俄罗斯党的胜利证明,被占领的乌克兰已经团结在普京周围。[40]这些不同的表述表明了此次选举产生的两大叙事趋势:首先,被占领乌克兰的高投票率是围绕“俄罗斯一体化”理念的基层公民动员的结果。这一点呼应了俄罗斯历史上利用被占领乌克兰的选举过程和结果来为其非法占领行为合法化的做法。[41] 其次,克里姆林宫将利用统一俄罗斯党的胜利来证明被占领乌克兰的居民完全支持占领本身。统一俄罗斯党发布的“人民纲领”(一份基于公民提案和呼吁的长期规划文件,其候选人以此为竞选纲领)强调了“顿巴斯和新俄罗斯的发展”作为统一俄罗斯党竞选纲领的作用。[42] 这一纲领实际上指的是俄罗斯正在实施的各项社会经济计划,旨在巩固其对被占领乌克兰的物质和心理控制。通过确保统一俄罗斯党获胜,克里姆林宫有效地营造了一种假象,即被占领的乌克兰居民已明确投票支持继续占领。克里姆林宫和俄罗斯占领官员还将利用选举结果作为证据,证明被占领地区居民对俄罗斯日益正式化的官方意识形态表示支持,这将为克里姆林宫继续强迫被占领的乌克兰居民为俄罗斯国家捍卫这一人为构建和强加的意识形态而做出牺牲创造条件。自全面入侵乌克兰以来,统一俄罗斯党在意识形态和政党构成方面都日益军事化,越来越多的乌克兰战争俄罗斯老兵出现在统一俄罗斯党的选票上。[43] 普京逐步巩固了统一俄罗斯党作为亲战、亲普京政党的地位,最终在2026年6月,统一俄罗斯党自2007年以来首次正式以“普京的政党”自居。[44] 2022年8月,普京正式指示统一俄罗斯党“不惜一切代价在乌克兰取得胜利”,并将该党亲战、亲普京的立场与俄罗斯非正式国家意识形态的核心部分联系起来。[45] 统一俄罗斯党的意识形态军事化对被占领的乌克兰产生了直接影响。在2026年初的初步选举筹备阶段,地区占领当局将统一俄罗斯党的胜利与俄罗斯军事爱国主义理想的传播联系起来。[46]例如,帕谢奇尼克在3月1日表示,他领导的政府的首要选举目标是“忠于俄罗斯利益的爱国者”的胜利。[47] 在被占领的乌克兰各地选区,一些获胜候选人也明显参与了俄罗斯对乌克兰的战争,这与自2022年以来统一俄罗斯党纲领的逐步军事化相呼应。库克森科娃是一名军事记者,也是人民阵线的志愿者;博罗代强调,在竞选期间,他曾担任第七突击旅(隶属于博罗代创立的顿巴斯志愿军联盟)的指挥官,身处前线。[48] 克里姆林宫将利用统一俄罗斯党在被占领的乌克兰的胜利,作为被占领地区完全支持俄罗斯非正式国家意识形态的证据。通过将对统一俄罗斯党的支持解读为对俄罗斯战时政治计划的支持,克里姆林宫可以辩称,被占领的乌克兰居民已经接受了对俄罗斯国家的相应义务。普京可能会以此为由,在未来于俄罗斯和被占领的乌克兰进行某种形式的动员。[49] 俄罗斯官员无疑会利用在被占领土上举行的选举来攻击乌克兰政府,以期在乌克兰战争中取得对其有利的最终结果。俄罗斯长期以来一直坚持将乌克兰选举作为谈判的先决条件。[50] 乌克兰宪法和法律明确禁止在戒严令下举行选举,而只要俄罗斯继续攻击和占领乌克兰,乌克兰政府就无法合法中止戒严令。俄罗斯故意歪曲乌克兰法律的这一事实,以在零星谈判的背景下削弱乌克兰政府的合法性。俄罗斯很可能会利用其在被占领的乌克兰举行的选举,作为乌克兰自身必须举行选举的证据。这一无法满足的要求可能会进一步使未来的谈判进程复杂化,而谈判进程正是近期美国政府访问基辅和莫斯科以及正在举行的联合国大会之后讨论的重点。[51] 然而,俄罗斯在被占领的乌克兰举行的选举已被广泛谴责为非法、胁迫和捏造的——这应该会削弱克里姆林宫关于乌克兰选举的任何论点。[52]
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