It's not the first their raid, so I believe they didn't store much data on the drives, only cloud. However, Russian police unlikely to ever return the seized stuff, so the drone just saves them money and burden of buying new hard drives.

And highly symbolic. It was a very defiant gesture.

Now that's the fun part of the cyberpunk timeline I was looking for.

I’ve always assumed high level Russian elections are rigged. Is that true? Are low level elections more fair?

Hell no. It's even crazier and more blatantly unfair since there's less monitoring and less need to save face and maintain the illusion of fairness.

But the article implies this guys movement to elect anti kremlin reps to lower positions is working?

Bravo, Sergei Boiko! I hope people donate to your Yandex Kashelyok.