"Do you live in Russia, understand?"

Crimea and Sevastopol gave Vladimir Putin not only 92 and 90% of the vote, but also a number of alarming signals

10 minutes before the start of voting at the polling station No. 56 in Sevastopol, a crowd of 20 people gather. Mostly pensioners. The woman who decided to vote for Grudinin argues with three supporters of Putin: “I gave a pioneer oath, I was in Komsomol. And do you want to vote for the capitalist? "

In response, she is convinced: Grudinin is also a capitalist, he has foreign accounts and in appendage - deceived shareholders. “But Putin returned us to Russia,” an elderly man with glasses with thick glasses instantly adds to us.

The participation of the elections, as the appreciation of Vladimir Putin, was actively talked in the Crimea: the Crimeans were going to thank the president for the opportunity to study at the universities of Moscow and St. Petersburg, for maintaining the dominant role of the Russian language, for the Kerch bridge and, of course, "for the fact that there is no war."

However, not everyone turned out to be ideological.

- Will they give medals? - the man who received the ballot as a member of the commission asks.

-Ah, medals, yes! - A member of the commission is being caught and takes out an icon with the inscription “With Russia forever!” From the package under the table! ”

The leader of the city branch of the Patriots of Russia, Ivan Ermakov, who came to the Sevastopol residents, came to the elections, Ivan Ermakov, who came to the elections.

The idea was approved by the horiz being approved, but came out sideways: each election commission for 1,500 voters was issued 500 medals each, and by noon they almost ended.

The media reports: "Sevastopol residents refuse to vote without the promised medals." The former head of the Horizburkom Valery Medvedev had to extinguish the fire: “I have to report that the machine delivering commemorative signs to Sevastopol is currently lingering at the Kerch crossing. Because of the storm, it works in actual weather. We ask all the Sevastopol residents not to worry - even if the commemorative signs end, the commission will continue to give all the voters a certificate. Based on the certificate, a commemorative sign can be obtained in each territorial commission from March 20. ”

Despite the hitch with medals, the appearance in the presidential election in Sevastopol was high - 71.44%. This is 26%higher than in the State Duma elections (45.67%), and two times higher than in the governor's election (34.21%).

A similar turnout and in Crimea - 71.55%. But if the Sevastopols obviously went to the elections at the call of the heart, then the Crimeans often did this from under the stick. For example, Lilia Nurlaeva, a teacher of honor of the Honter in the Hontering of the Rural School, said. She published on social networks a recording of a conversation with the school principal Elena Bratusina:

“L.N.: I say once again: I did not go and I won’t go.

EB: You work in our school, so you will say so elsewhere. Do you get wages? You use all the benefits, you live in Russia, understand? You must come and vote. “Against all,” against anyone. You must come to the polls. Dot. This is not my requirement. You work in our school.

L.N.: I know that I am working at your school.

EB: Do you want to lose your job?

L.N.: Why?

EB: And because you live in a country called Russia. ”

The Crimean Tatars gave the alarm to the president. The elections were ignored even by supporters of Russia from their among them.

“During the 4 years of the stay of Crimea in Russia, everything was done so that the Crimean Tatars did not come to the polls,” the director of the Crimean Institute for Strategic Research, pro -Russian activist Rinat Shaimardanov told Novaya Gazeta. - The provisions of the law on rehabilitation of repressed peoples have not been executed. The lands of the Glades of Protest ( self -seizure. - I. Zh. ), On which they settled ten or more years ago are selected from the Crimean Tatars. Our people directly indicate that they do not want to reckon with him. Even those who came to vote voted precisely for Vladimir Putin, but not for Crimean power.