Observers register no violations yet at Russia's parliamentary elections

International observers monitoring Russia's parliamentary elections said early on Sunday they had registered no violations during the voting, RIA Novosti reports.

"The group of observers linked to a network of non-governmental organizations, including deputies of the European Parliament, national parliaments, experts and political scientists, has visited 48 polling stations in several Russian regions and so far our colleagues have no critical remarks, and everyone says that the process is very transparent," Mateusz Piskorski, an observer from Poland, said.

Piskorski, who is also head of the European Center of Geopolitical Analysis, said that no one obstructed the work of the observers.

Russians are today electing members of the State Duma, the country's parliament's lower chamber.