Putin celebrated a decade of the annexation of Crimea (and his new term) by the next “rally-concert” on Red Square. Report "Medusa" Maxim Shemetov / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta broadcast of Vladimir Putin’s speech at a “rally-concert” on the occasion of his victory in the election of the President of the Russian Federation and a decade of the annexation of Crimea. Moscow, March 18, 2024 There is a mat in this text. If this is unacceptable for you, please do not read it.

The Russian presidential election did not meet the criteria of freedom and fairness, US National Security Assistant Jake Sullivan said at a briefing with reporters. “The reality is that President Putin is the president of Russia. We have had to deal with this reality against the backdrop of everything in Ukraine and other moves that are contrary to US interests that we have seen from this president and Russia under his leadership. And we will continue to operate in this reality.

About 22 million votes that Vladimir Putin received during the Russian presidential election were falsified. This is the conclusion reached by electoral analyst Ivan Shukshin after analyzing the data of the Russian Central Election Commission using the Kisling-Shpilkin method, which is based on comparing the results of voting at polling stations with different turnouts.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Almost 90% of Putin look completely implausible. Why do you need such a "record"? Is this a new stage of Putinism? According to the results of the so -called elections in Russia, according to the CEC, almost 90% of Russians voted for Putin. This puts him on a par with the dictators of the post -Soviet countries: Alexander Lukashenko, Islam Karimov and Nursultan Nazarbayev.

The Koptevsky District Court of Moscow sentenced anesthesiologist Vera Indiyenko, who worked as an observer at the Russian presidential elections from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and was detained on March 16, to 12 days of arrest. Indiyenko was found guilty of displaying extremist symbols (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), Mediazona reports , citing the court's decision.

Russia may use satellite images provided by private companies from the United States to launch cruise missile attacks on Ukraine, The Atlantic writes, citing a Ukrainian military source. The publication's interlocutor said that Russia attacks one or another object in Ukraine after satellites take pictures of this object. Sometimes satellite images appear after an attack, which can be used to judge the consequences of the attack.

Kremlin insiders weigh in on the record-breaking voting results reported for Vladimir Putin Sergey Bobylev / Sputnik / imago images / Scanpix / LETA After three days of tightly controlled and coerced voting, Vladimir Putin has secured another six-year term as Russia’s president. According to election officials , turnout exceeded 77 percent, and Putin took home roughly 87 percent of the vote — breaking all records in the history of modern Russia.

What about Putin’s re -election in Belgorod? On the eve of the “election”, the Armed Forces of Ukraine constantly fired at the city, and the Gur detachments tried to break through the border The Vyacheslav Gladkov channel in Telegram / AFP / Scanpix / Leta employees of the Ministry of Emergencies extinguish a fire that arose as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces. Belgorod, March 17, 2023 A week before the “elections” (Putin, of course, broke all records) Belgorod was fired daily.

Here are just a few such cases Natalya Kolesnikova / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Police officer at the polling station in Moscow, March 17, 2024 The Russian centriezbirk did not record complaints and violations following the results of the presidential election of 2024, said the head of the department Ella Pamfilova.

They all supported Putin from the stage Vladimir Putin . I congratulate you on the reunification of Crimea and Sevastopol with Russia. Crimea is not only our history and a strategically important territory. These are, first of all, people who have never separated themselves from Russia. The path of the people of Novorossiya and Donbass to their homeland turned out to be more difficult and tragic. But we did it anyway and now we are walking together.

Four people were killed as a result of shelling of the border village of Nikolskoye, Belgorod region, on the afternoon of March 18, said the head of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov. The projectile, which, according to the governor, was launched by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, hit a private residential building. Judging by the photos that Gladkov published, the building is completely destroyed.

The first criminal case has been opened in Russia on the organization of an extremist organization and participation in it (parts 1 and 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) in connection with the declaration of the “international LGBT movement” as “extremist” in the country, claims the head of the Safe Internet League, Ekaterina Mizulina.

At polling station No. 1136 in the Krasnoselsky district of St. Petersburg, a policeman pulled a voter out of a voting booth during the Russian presidential election. A video of the incident was published by the telegram channel “Observers of St. Petersburg.” According to activists, the video was filmed on March 17 at polling station No. 1136. In the video footage, a police officer forcibly pulls a voter out of a booth.

Meduza’s Russian readers on what the ‘Noon Against Putin’ election protests looked like on the ground Evgeny Feldman / Meduza The line to vote at the Russian Embassy in Riga. March 17, 2024. At 12:00 on March 17, thousands of Russians throughout the country and abroad lined up outside of polling stations to take part in the “Noon Against Putin” election protest.

The Nagatinsky District Court of Moscow sentenced Sotavision journalist Antonina Favorskaya to 10 days of arrest. Mediazona reports this. Favorskaya was found guilty of disobeying the legal demands of the police.