A report from GlobalVoices.org details a massive wave of DDoS attacks against blogging platforms, election watchdog Websites, and various independent sources of media and content aggregation in the days leading up to the elections. Among the targets were LiveJournal (a popular blogging platform in Russia), Golos.org (an election monitoring association), KartaNarusheniy.ru (the crowd-sourced election map itself), and many more. In addition to the DDoS campaign, a number of opposition voices were arrested in classic fashion as well.
Source: https://threatpost.com/russian-parliamentary-election-marred-ddos-campaign-120511/75958/