Meduza breaks down the evidence pointing to the most fraudulent elections in modern Russian history On March 18, Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) announced that Vladimir Putin would remain in power for a fifth presidential term, following a landslide “election” win. According to the CEC’s preliminary data, Putin received a record-breaking 87.28 percent of the vote with an equally record-breaking voter turnout of 77.44 percent.

US Presidential National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan visited Kyiv on an unannounced visit. On the evening of March 20, he spoke at a joint briefing with the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Ermak. Among other things, the American official answered a question from journalists about how soon a new package of military aid to Ukraine could be approved and whether the Biden administration has a “Plan B” in case Congress does not pass the bill.

Unknown vandals have damaged a new work by street artist Banksy, painted on the wall of a residential building in the Finsbury Park area in north London. The artist created his art object near a trimmed tree - he painted a green background on the wall, imitating foliage. Nearby is a picture of a man holding a pressure hose. On March 18, Banksy confirmed the authorship of the work by posting a photo of it on his Instagram.

Unknown vandals have damaged a new work by street artist Banksy, painted on the wall of a residential building in the Finsbury Park area in north London. The artist created his art object near a trimmed tree - he painted a green background on the wall, imitating foliage. Nearby is a picture of a man holding a pressure hose. On March 18, Banksy confirmed the authorship of the work by posting a photo of it on his Instagram.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. One of the main Putin myths is about the bloodless and voluntary accession of Crimea. And what was the resistance of Crimeans of the annexation of the Russian Federation in fact? Ten years ago, in March 2014, Russia annexed Crimea. This happened after the referendum organized there by the Moscow forces. He took place in the presence of the military personnel of the Russian Federation in the Crimea.

Apple has removed the Photon-2024 application from the AppStore, developed by Alexei Navalny’s team for protest voting in the Russian presidential elections. As FBK director Ivan Zhdanov said, this was done at the request of Roskomnadzor. “At the request of Roskomnadzor, Apple decided to remove the application with the random number generator. They don't understand anything there. Nothing. And they will never understand.

The City Election Commission of St. Petersburg ordered an inspection at polling station No. 5 in the Admiralteysky district of the city. The reason for it was videos with vote falsification in the presidential elections in the Russian Federation, distributed by “Observers of St. Petersburg.” One video shows a woman crawling on her knees to a ballot box and throwing ballots into it. Then another woman joins her.

The final official voting results for the presidential elections in the Russian Federation at polling stations located outside of Russia have appeared in the GAS Elections system. According to the CEC, Vladimir Putin received 72.3% of the votes. Second place went to Vladislav Davankov, who scored 16.65%. Nikolai Kharitonov has 2.22%, Leonid Slutsky has 1.97%. Davankov received more votes than Putin in 15 European countries, Argentina, Paraguay and Israel.

Mentions of actors Danila Kozlovsky and Ksenia Rappoport, who criticized the war in Ukraine, were removed from the credits of the film “The Flying Ship.” This became known following the results of the premiere screening, reports the Film Distributor's Bulletin. Kozlovsky in the film adaptation of the cartoon by Harry Bardeen got several roles at once - the actor, made up beyond recognition, played various Hedgehog Grannies.

Tristan Fewings / Getty Images Work of Damen Hurst “Myth Study, Explained, exploded” at an exhibition at the Gagosyan Gallery in London. March 9, 2022 At least three works of the British artist Damien Hurst, exhibited in galleries around the world, have false dating-they are dated to 1990, but in fact they were created in 2017 and artificially aged, the newspaper The Guardian claims in their investigation .

Journalist Yuri Dud published a post dedicated to the memory of sports commentator Vasily Utkin, whose death became known the day before. In his post, Dud recalls the history of the “Football Club” program, which aired on the NTV channel since 1994, and cites excerpts from material published in 2017 dedicated to it. Utkin was the main presenter of “Football Club”, and the material contains quotes from his co-author, commentator Dmitry Fedorov.

We are trying to deal with political scientist Nikolai Petrov Alexander Zemlyanichenko / AP / Scanpix / Leta Vladimir Putin plays at his headquarters. Moscow, March 18, 2024 The only intrigue of the presidential “elections” of 2024 was what result Vladimir Putin would “draw”. Initially, the administration of the President of the Russian Federation focused on 80%, then - by 85%. But the official 87%voiced by CECs even killed these forecasts (apparently having little in common with reality).

In the city of Grayvoron, Belgorod Region, two local residents who were on the street when the shells arrived were killed during shelling, said the regional governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov. According to him, the Grayvoronsky district has been under massive shelling since early morning. The shelling is also carried out using multiple launch rocket systems, Gladkov clarified. Two more people, according to preliminary data, were injured during the shelling.

In the Amur region, 13 miners remained underground for two days, trapped due to a rock collapse that occurred on March 18. This is a mine on the territory of the Zeya municipal district. The regional government reported that on March 20 they began drilling a well to the blocked miners, and that this would take two to three days. A state of emergency has been introduced in the region. Rescuers have no contact with the miners.

During the presidential elections that took place from March 15 to 17, police officers put pressure on voters by standing next to transparent ballot boxes and closely monitoring what people wrote on the ballots. Those “suspected” of damaging ballots were repeatedly detained - in different regions and under different pretexts.