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The third day of the election and the action "Half of the Putin"
March 17 - the third, final voting day in the presidential election in Russia. Independent observers and experts evaluate the elections as non -free and non -competitive. Vladimir Putin, who has guided Russia since 2000, has been running for the fifth time. In addition to the current president in the elections, three candidates are Vladislav Davankov, the Vice Speaker of the State Duma from the New People party, State Duma deputies Nikolai Kharitonov from the Party of the Communist Party and Leonid Slutsky from the LDPR. The Central Electoral Commission refused to all candidates from non -parliamentary parties and self -nominated signatures.
On the first day of voting, March 15, the appearance of voters, according to official figures, exceeded 38%, in the second - 58%. There were attempts at arson of polling stations and damage to the ballots, when the urns for them were filled with ink and green. During the first day of voting, the Investigative Committee instituted at least 15 criminal cases under the article on the “obstruction of the work of election commissions,” the new newspaper Europe reports.
On Sunday, the opposition announced the campaign "Half by Putin." She called on the protest electorate to come to the polling stations by 12 o’clock in the afternoon. Thus, disagreements with the Kremlin’s policy will be able to meet like -minded people and see that they are not alone. The idea belongs to the ex-deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg from Yabloko Maxim Reznik. She was supported by many opposition politicians, including Alexei Navalny shortly before his death.
The Moscow prosecutor’s office on March 14 made a statement in which she called the calls to come to the elections on March 17 at noon “obstructing the free exercise by citizens of their electoral rights and the work of election commissions” and threatened the participants with criminal prosecution.
The presenter TV channel was conducted by a live broadcast dedicated to the elections in Russia and the Sunday Promotion "Half and afternoon against Putin":
Radio Liberty led the voting chronicle and protests. We complemented the news as the information is received (Moscow time):
23:00 Radio Liberty finishes a broadcast of the last day of the elections of the President of Russia and the Opposition Promotion "Half away against Putin."
22:40 According to the results of processing 50% of the ballots, the current President of Russia Vladimir Putin is gaining more than 87% of votes. A little more than 3% of those who came to the polls voted for Leonid Slutsky, 4% of voters were given to Nikolai Kharitonov and Vladislav Davankov.
21:00 In Russia, a vote in the presidential election ended. In Kaliningrad and the Kaliningrad region, polling stations closed. According to the latest data from the OVD-Info, during the elections throughout the country, at least 80 people in 20 cities were detained .
20:50 about 250 thousand Russians voted in foreign plots, taking into account early and three -day voting, the Russian Foreign Ministry reports. In Europe, voting is coming to an end, in the USA it continues. Eyewitnesses report a large queue formed at noon in local time, in the elections in New York.
20:15 Julia Navalny, the widow of the Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny, voted in the presidential election at the Russian Embassy in Berlin. Navalny spent several hours in line. After the vote, the opposition widow said that she had inscribed the name of her wife into the ballot.
20:05 In Moscow and in regions with Moscow time at 20:00, polling stations completed work. The counting of votes began. The plots in Kaliningrad continue to work. As of 19:50 Moscow time, the turnout throughout Russia exceeded 73%, the CEC reports. In Moscow, by the middle of the day of March 17, the turnout was approaching 62%.
20:00 In Yerevan, due to the influx of people who wish to vote in the elections, extended until 22 hours local time.
19:00 in Kostroma was detained by the Secretary of the Communist Party of the Communist Party Andrei Tarasov. Earlier, he posted a post on the VKontakte social network with an appeal to go to the polls, and also published a photograph of the ballot with the inscription "No War" and the crossed out of Vladimir Putin. The police drew up a protocol on an administrative article on the so -called discrediting of the Russian army and forced Tarasov to remove the post.
18:40 In the occupied Energodar of the Zaporizhzhya region of Ukraine, the drones attacked the building, in which three election commissions were at once, TASS reports .
18:35 In the building of the polling station in Perm, a 63-year-old woman carried a large firecracker to the territory of the polling station and undermined her in the toilet. The woman was torn off her hand, reports the Telegram channel "Base". Information about the explosion later confirmed the Ministry of Territorial Security of the Perm Territory.
18:30 The operating time of the plots in the Consulate General in Almaty extended until 21 hours local time due to the influx of people who want to vote.
18:00 Secretary of the General Council of United Russia Andrei Turchak wrote that he voted in the elections at noon. He later removed this wording from his message. The screenshot managed to preserve the journalists of the Agency.
17:10 The seventh grade student of the Krasnodar school No. 108 set fire to the tablecloth at the polling station in her educational institution. The girl did not cause any damage to the constituency, and the vote after the incident continued. “Psychologists and the police work with the child,” said the head of the precinct election commission.
16:34 The latest data "OTD-info" about detainees during the presidential election and during protests related to voting, March 17. More than 75 people in 17 cities were detained, the project writes . The largest number of detentions is still in Kazan-at least 29, several of which were left in the police at night. In Moscow, at least 19 detainees, in St. Petersburg-at least 7, in Volgograd-at least three. The detentions are also reported in Chelyabinsk, Ryazan, Petrozavodsk, Ufa, Balakovo, Barnaul, Kostroma, Novokuybyshevsk, Cherepovets and several other cities.
16:23 The total turnout in the elections of the President of Russia, including remote voting, amounted to 70.81% as of 15:45 of Moscow time, the head of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova said . Prior to this, a few hours earlier, more than 60%was reported.
16:13 "Violations that could some extent have not been identified," the head of the Council of Human Rights under the President of Russia Valery Fadeev said on the course of the presidential election. According to him, those violations that were discovered "are" small and effectively eliminated. "
15:40 In the center of the Czech capital, the Prague against Putin was held. 150-200 people participated in it. The protest was supported by the "Prague Anti -Wesnoye Committee." The applicant of the action is Anton Litvin, the organizer of the Prague Festival of Actual Culture and Human Rights Kulturus. Participants in this performance boycotted voting in the Russian elections in Prague, held on March 15 at the Russian Embassy, emphasizing that they did not want to legitimize them.
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15.28 In Berlin, the line to the Russian embassy of those who wanted to vote stretched more than 1.3 kilometers.
Opposite the embassy there is a large rally, which Russians who protest against the war in Ukraine and the Kremlin’s repressive policy in Russia came. Along Unter Den Linden Street, stands with photographs and stories of Russian political prisoners are placed. The ones who came-at least a few hundred of them, and the crowd continues to arrive-carry the white-blue-white flags of the Russian opposition. The politician Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former political strategist and galleryman Marat Gelman, co -founder of the Free Buryatia Foundation Alexander Garmazhapov, act from the stage. The rally program declares the speeches of musicians who left Russia because of their anti-war position. Among them is the rapper Ligalase and the Rock Group "TV" with Mikhail Borzykin.
15:11 at noon on Sunday, on March 17, when the Russian opposition called on disagreements with President Vladimir Putin’s policies to come to polling stations at the same time, the queues for them lined up in many cities of Russia-Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Tomsk, Perm, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, summarizes Medusa . Regarding the queues in other countries that stretched for hundreds of meters, the publication notes among others Limasol (Republic of Cyprus) and the Gaga (the Netherlands).
15:07 The Embassy of Russian Yukos, public figure Mikhail Khodorkovsky, also came to the Russian Embassy in Berlin. “It's nice to see like-minded people in one line-even if only in Berlin,” Khodorkovsky wrote in a telegram channel, accompanying the post with a photograph with Julia Navalny.
14:43 The Ark project writes in a telegram channel that he took off the line in Yerevan. It stretched for several kilometers, the project coordinators say. They estimated the number of people who came to the embassy at five thousand people. "Ark" positions itself as a project for assistance to Russians with an anti -war position.
14:36 Several hundred people came to polling stations by 12 local time to the Russian embassy in Paris. The line stretched for 200-250 meters and continues to grow. The exit will be on duty by activists of the Exitpols, the new newspaper Europe reports.
14:30 In Irkutsk, a local resident glued the names of opposition convicted in Russia-Ilya Yashin, Vladimir Kara-Murza, as well as the widows of Alexei Navalny Julia. The police demanded that the voter write an explanatory, but he refused, citing the 51st article of the Constitution. As a result, he was released without a protocol, and the ballot was lowered into the urn, writes the publication "People of Baikal" .
14:20 The widow of the opposition policy of Alexei Navalny in the area of noon as local time came to the Russian Embassy in Berlin. The queue in the city to the embassy stretched for several quarters, reports Rusnews .
14.12 According to the calculations of the OVD-Info, on Sunday by 14 o’clock Moscow time in Russia at polling stations or near them were detained by the police at least 46 people. The most massive detentions were in Kazan: there are at least 23 detainees. Most of them were released without a protocol, but the activist Gulnaz Orlov was left in the police department at night: she is accused of organizing an inconsistent rally. At the exit from the house, the employees of the Center "E" and the criminal investigation department detained the activist Zulfia Sitdikova - where she is and that she is charged with is still unknown.
At least six people were detained in Moscow, at least five in St. Petersburg, at least three in Chelyabinsk. The detentions are also reported in Petrozavodsk, Ufa, Balakovo (suburbs), Volgograd, Barnaul, Kostroma, Cherepovts, Kirov and Irkutsk.
At least 16 people were detained by the police on the previous voting day, March 16.
The detainee may be charged with obstruction of the will of citizens in the elections, as well as hooliganism, participation in unauthorized rallies or their organization, disobedience of the police and other administrative or criminal articles.
13.49 at least 400 meters stretched to the polling station at the Russian Consulate in Tel Aviv, Israel, reports "We can explain."
13.44 The midday queue in Belgrade, Serbia.
13.40 In Italy, the artist and photographer Danila Tkachenko and his friend Mariam Povanidze burned a portrait of the current President of Russia Vladimir Putin against the background of the current volcano. Tkachenko previously opposed the war of Russia in Ukraine. He left the country due to political persecution: a criminal case was instituted to prepare an anti-war action against him.
13.20 at least 300 people came at noon to the local time to the polling station at the Russian Embassy in Vilnius. According to the publication “we can explain”, a group of people rally at the embassy with posters against the war in Ukraine and against Vladimir Putin, as well as with Ukrainian and Lithuanian flags.
13.02 In Chisinau, the unknown threw two bottles with incendiary mixture into the territory of the Russian Embassy, where the polling station was opened. The attacker was detained by the police, the Russian State Agencies, in particular TASS , said, citing a diplomatic mission. The victims and damage are not reported. The embassy said that the work of the voting site had to be interrupted for a short time, now it is restored.
The Moldavian Radio Service Freedom also informs this incident. According to her, the vote was really interrupted for a short time due to smoke. The incident occurred around 11:30, when several dozen people stood in line, waiting for the opportunity to vote. There were also several journalists on the spot. Eyewitnesses said that they saw how an unknown man threw something through the fence of the consulate, perhaps Molotov cocktail. He tried to escape, but was detained by security.
12.57 In the center of St. Petersburg near the polling station, the police at noon detained the journalist of the city edition of Fontanka. He did not even have time to go inside, the newspaper writes . The head of the PEC wrote a statement that the journalist allegedly waved his hands, expressed an obscenely and picked up to others.
Also, about noon in the north of the city, police detained activist Anastasia Kuznetsov due to a complaint about violation of public order, when she left the house, she told Rotonda. Who complained and what exactly was not told to her.
12:43 Regarding the queues in Kazakhstan, the local Radio Liberty Service reports with reference to its correspondent that in Almaty to the Russian consulate on Oraza Zhandosov Street, for noon, about one and a half thousand people, and people still continued to arrive. The queues are also observed by the Russian consulate in Uralsk, in the west of Kazakhstan.
12.30 Russians reached a rally in Tbilisi. They hold posters demanding to free the political prisoners and bring to justice the current president of Russia Vladimir Putin. The rally was attended by the art group "Party of the Dead."
There are no polling stations in Georgia, the country does not maintain diplomatic relations with Russia.
12:21 "OTD-Info" reports the detention in Ufa by a local resident Bulat Khalikov. He himself said that the reason was his attempt to throw a photo of Navalny into the urn at the polling station No. 342. The detainee was taken to the police. The PEC member threatened Khalikov with a criminal article on the obstruction of the work of election commissions, the human rights project reports.
It is also reported that in Kazan, at the exit from the house, employees of the Center of the "E" and the criminal investigation department detained the activist Zulfia Sitdikova. Previously, she was awarded a warning against participation in a mass inconsistent campaign, without specifying which action was in question. In addition to it, at about 12 pm at the polling station a local resident Alexander Shirshov was detained. He told the OVD-Info that he was being taken to the police department and that at least 20 detainees are in AvtoZak with him.
The Kazan telegram channel "Thunderstorm" writes that in one of the sites, police prohibit the first of all young people to vote around noon. “They say, go later, after an hour or two. Either we are leaving now or delay us,” the subscriber’s word reports.
In the Saratov region, due to a conversation on the war on the war, the police detained the observer from the Communist Party of the Communist Party Damir Khisyt. He worked in the PEC No. 510 in Balakovo. On March 16, the local journalist provoked him to talk about the war, and then called him the words "discrediting." On March 17, police officers arrived at the site in the morning and took Khisyt.minov to the department for testimony, reports OVD-Info.
12.10 Closer to noon, noticeably more people began to come to sites in St. Petersburg, the city publication "Paper" reports.
12.02 Faces for polling stations are built in Moscow.
11.42 Voting also takes place in the regions of Ukraine controlled by Russian troops. Astra publishes photos from Avdeevka, Donetsk region. The battles outside the city lasted for many months, Ukrainian troops left it in February. The city is largely destroyed.
Voting in the occupied territories is one of the main reasons why the international community may not recognize the elections legitimate.
11:27 The head of the Russian Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova, announcing a turnout of more than 60%, emphasized: "The elections should go as clean as possible, honestly, correctly that no doubt causes the correctness of how these elections go." The words of Pampilova are given by Interfax .
11.17 In St. Petersburg, the court removed from the work of two members of the election commissions from different sections-Denis Varlamov (they were a member of the PEC with a decisive vote) and Nikita Limonov . Both represent the Party "Apple". They were accused of agitation among voters and shooting a video, including meetings of the commission and voting books. They themselves deny it. Limonov said that he was filmed only a sealed safe package and an act according to the results of the first day, and Varlamov-that the meetings at which he allegedly was filming was not at all.
OVD-Info also reports the exceptions of members of election commissions and removal from the observers in Moscow and Dolgoprudny near Moscow.
10.54 Half queue at the Russian Embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
10.43 Ten days of arrest and a fine of two thousand rubles due to damage to the ballots were appointed a resident of the city of Sudzha in the Kursk region Roman Yatsenko, reports OVD-Info. According to the court, on the voting site, he deleted himself from the voters list, after which he tore his ballot and his wife and threw scraps into the urn for voting. Yatsenko explained that in this way he expressed his civil position.
10.39 Stones for sites at 12.00 local time in Omsk, Tomsk, Chelyabinsk, Perm and Yekaterinburg.
10.35 Voice Movement reports a “carousel vote” in Chechnya. One of its participants, a civil servant, said that he was instructed to vote in seven polling stations in a row. So Chechnya achieves at 90% and higher.
10.31 In Kazakhstan, by noon, hundreds of people came to the Russian embassy in Astana and polling stations in Almaty, where the line, according to eyewitnesses, stretched for 500 meters.
10:26 In Yerevan, according to the estimates of the Rain correspondent, the line at the entrance of the Russian embassy stretched for 600 meters.
10:19 Sota publishes a photo and video sent by subscribers from Tashkent and Bangkok. In Bangkok (Thailand), “Half by Putin” takes place at a 35-degree heat, notes a telegram channel.
09.56 In Australia, the Russian Consulate in Sydney Participants “Half a day against Putin” opposed the pro-government-minded Russians with state flags and anti-National slogans.
09.54 According to the CEC, the appearance of the country's elections reached 60%. При этом сопредседатель движения "Голос" Станислав Андрейчук, проанализировав данные о явке, заявляет о следах их фальсификации.
09.44 "ОВД-Инфо" сообщило , что в Москве полиция задержала члена УИК с правом решающего голоса Вячеслава Голикова. Поводом для задержания стала его футболка с надписью "Навальный". Сперва от Голикова потребовали просто переодеться, что он и сделал, но потом всё же повезли в отдел полиции.
08.36 Издание "7х7" сообщает , что в полдень по местному времени заметные очереди выстроились у избирательных участков в Новосибирске. Позднее городская мэрия разместила сообщение о том, что в разных регионах были предприняты попытки "провокативных действий" для дестабилизации работы избирательных комиссий. Мэрия Новосибирска указала, что на участках усилены меры безопасности, а в "некоторых помещениях для голосования наблюдалось скопление избирателей".
В Чите перед участками было усилено полицейское наблюдение, дежурят автозаки.
07.15 "Полдень против Путина" проходит и за границей, как правило, у посольств и консульств России. "Астра" публикует фотографии из Окленда, Новая Зеландия.