The first pre-election scandal in the Middle Urals rumbled in Serov. On the eve of here, the propaganda of a candidate for governors Yevgeny Kuyvashev and candidates for the local Duma was stolen from the pre-election headquarters of United Russia..

The incident occurred in broad daylight. August 17th at 12. 20 employees of the local election headquarters saw how the unknown, breaking the doors of the premises, in which the propaganda products were stored, kidnapped packs of leaflets ready for distribution, the newspaper Globus.

United Russia called the police, which began an operation to intercept intruders. The kidnappers disappeared on a minibus in the territory of a local concrete plant. When the police came there, concrete mixers left the territory. In them, and was found stolen propaganda. According to unconfirmed information, she tried to mix with the solution to hide the traces of the crime.

The incident was reacted by the secretary of the Sverdlovsk office of Viktor Viktor Sheptiy. He said that the party "is fighting for the purity of the election campaign".

"It is a special responsibility that municipal elections are held in close conjunction with the election of the governor of the Sverdlovsk region. And this glaring fact, the barbaric theft of agitation products, is beyond the reasonable and far beyond the framework of electoral legislation. We will demand that those who consider it possible to conduct such political struggles in such ways are found and punished according to the strictness of the law, "Viktor Sheptiy.

United Russia expressed hope that law enforcement agencies will work "adequately and quickly", and called the crime "extremism".