Vladimir Putin, speaking at a press conference following the results of the presidential elections in Russia, for the first time publicly spoke the name of Alexei Navalny and commented on his death in the colony. “As for Mr. Navalny. Yes, he passed away. This is always a sad event. Well, we have had other cases where people in prison have died. Hasn't this happened in the United States? It happened, and more than once,” Putin said.

There were several polling stations in Moscow where Putin’s official result was as close to absolute as possible. There he allegedly won 99% or more of the votes. attention to this . drew Electoral expert Dmitry Nesterov On his Facebook, he published a summary table of results for polling stations in the Danilovsky district of Moscow and drew attention to the anomalous results at polling stations No. 1757 , No. 1766 , No. 1769 and No.

Vladimir Putin did not confirm that negotiations on the exchange of Alexei Navalny were held. This was stated by his press secretary Dmitry Peskov. “He said that an idea was put forward by one of the people about exchanging Navalny, which he potentially agreed to and immediately told the person who put forward such an idea about it,” Peskov said.

In St. Petersburg, during the counting of votes, Olesya Vasilchenko, a voting member of the precinct election commission (PEC) No. 427 of the Kalininsky district, was beaten by members of the territorial election commission (TEC) No. 38. The reported this on its telegram channel. association “Observers of St. Petersburg” As the report says, at about three o'clock in the morning on March 18, when votes were being counted at the polling station, a man and a woman approached Vasilchenko.

There were no chapters of democratic states in the list. Even Serbia ignored the victory The CEC expectedly reported on the victory of Vladimir Putin in the presidential election of 2024. However, this time Putin received much less congratulations from foreign leaders than after winning the 2018 election. Moreover, the leaders of a number of Western countries called the elections in Russia “not free”, “unfair” and “dishonest”.

In annexed Crimea, a local resident was detained for eating a ballot at a polling station. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to the chairman of the local election commission, Mikhail Malyshev. According to him, the incident occurred on the last day of voting, March 17. The voter attracted the attention of the commission by being in the voting booth for more than five minutes.

The Krasnooktyabrsky District Court of Volgograd sentenced Arsen Melkonyan, a former participant in the war in Ukraine, to three years and two months in a penal colony for threatening the judge, who had previously sentenced him to 11 years in prison for murder. This was reported by the joint press service of local courts, Mediazona noted .

In Moscow, when counting votes in the last presidential election, ballots that were covered in green paint were taken into account. This was reported by RIA Novosti, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow City Election Commission Dmitry Reut. “I would like to note that the 115 ballots filled with green paint at PEC 690 in Otradnoye and 217 ballots at PEC 2084 in Chertanovo Yuzhnoye are all readable, the marks on the ballots are visible. Everything was calculated and taken into account.

Based on the results of processing 99.67% of polling station protocols, Vladimir Putin won the presidential election in Russia, gaining 87.32% of the votes. These are the data from the calculations of the Central Election Commission. The remaining three candidates received less than 5% of the vote each.

As a result of the attack on the village of Nikolskoye in the Belgorod region, a family of four people was killed. This was announced by local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. According to him, the shell hit a residential private house. The dead were a 17-year-old boy, his mother and her common-law husband, as well as his grandmother. The little granddaughter was saved; she is in intensive care and connected to a ventilator. The child was diagnosed with a closed craniocerebral injury.

Two girls from Russia got married to the United States and returned to their homeland during the war. Here is their story In recent months, Russia has finally criminalized any orientation, except for heterosexual: in November 2023, the non-existent “LGBT move” was recognized as extremist, which allows the security forces to put people in the insulator even for earrings of rainbow flowers.

About half of the ballots for Vladimir Putin - at least 31.6 million - were thrown out. Novaya Gazeta Europe came to these conclusions after its own calculations. The publication calls this a record scale of fraud in the presidential elections in Russia. Journalists counted votes using the method of mathematician Sergei Shpilkin. This method allows you to determine how many ballots were counted for the winner by stuffing and rewriting protocols.

On March 18, a number of Russian and Ukrainian media reported the death of King Charles III of Great Britain. Relevant publications, in particular, appeared in the pro-Kremlin telegram channel Mash , the Rosbalt agency, the publication Present Time , the Vedomosti newspaper and the Tsargrad TV channel . also reported the death of the British monarch, citing Russian media The Ukrainian agency UNIAN .

Communist Party observer Vera Indienko was beaten at the police station after being detained at a polling station on March 16. this with reference to the girl’s friends reports The Agency . She herself told them about this in court, which sentenced her to 12 days of arrest under the article on displaying prohibited symbols (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code). Indienko was an observer at site No. 369 in the Moscow district of Koptevo.