Vladimir Putin for the first time personally commented on the death of Alexei Navalny in a colony and called him by his last name for the first time. “As for Mr. Navalny... Yes, he passed away. This is always a sad event. Well, we had other cases when people in places of deprivation of liberty passed away. Hasn't this happened in the USA? It happened. And repeatedly,” he said. In addition, Putin said that he agreed to exchange the opposition leader for prisoners in the West.

In Bratsk, Alexander Shokhirev was detained after voting, taken to the police department and beaten for “voting the wrong way.” His wife told OVD-Info about this. After voting, the man left the polling station to go to work. The police arrived there. As human rights activists report, citing the man’s wife, at the police station Shokhirev was put face down on the ground, beaten, he was threatened with having his finger cut off, and his documents and phone were also taken away.

At the Russian embassies in Yerevan (Armenia) and Almaty (Kazakhstan), voting extended, the founder of the project of assistance to Russians in the emigration "Ark" and lawyer Anastasia Burakova reported . The site in Yerevan worked until 23:00 local time. Arriving at 13 pm, stood in line for 9 hours, the correspondent of Novo-Europe reports.

Novyevropa found out how they vote for Putin in the occupied territories of Ukraine Those who came to the polling station in Makeevka, Donetsk region, take a common photo with the action “I chose the president”, March 17, 2024. Photo: Alessandro Guerra / EPA-EFE On March 17, the presidential elections ended in Russia or, as they are also called, “bends”.

Reporting "Novaya Gazeta Europe" from the Baltic countries Yankees GOU HOMOM: How the Russians voted in the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - geographically the nearest European neighbors of Russia. 135,000 of its citizens and several hundred thousand ethnic Russians are temporarily or constantly living there. Relations of the Baltic countries with Russia aggravated after the outbreak of war in Ukraine.

Photo: EPA-EFE/MIKHAIL METZEL/SPUTNIK/KREMLIN POOL Vladimir Putin secured a widely expected victory in the Russian presidential election on Sunday with 87.8% of the vote according to Russian state exit polls. The exit poll published by state-controlled pollster FOM showed Communist Party candidate Nikolay Kharitonov in second place with 4.7% of the vote, while Vladislav Davankov of the centre-right New People Party came in third with 3.6%.

The widow of the leader of the Russian opposition Alexei Navalny Julia Navalny voted at the Russian Embassy in Berlin. She stood in line for six hours. Leaving the embassy, ​​Julia said that she entered the name of her dead husband into the ballot. The audience chanted "Julia, you and I!" Navalny thanked everyone who came to participate in the action "Noon against Putin." Together with Julia, a press secretary of Navalny Kira Yarmysh came to the Embassy of the Russian Federation.

Novyevropa asked readers to tell how the elections in their city went. Here are their stories Photo: Sefa Karacan / Anadolu / Getty images Power polling stations closed in Russia, the commissions began to count the votes. The New Gazeta Europe asked readers to tell how they spent the voting day. Belgorod . I had to vote on 15.03, since I was not sure that I would live until 17.03. I'm from Belgorod. While going to the site, shelling began. World! Demobilization! Freedom is political prisoner.

An explosion occurred in the building of the polling station in Perm in the Soldatov Palace of Culture on Komsomolsky Prospekt due to a firecracker brought by 64-year-old Elena S. Baza reported this. According to the telegram channel, the voter entered the polling station with a package, which was checked by a security guard. He didn't find anything suspicious in him. Then, according to eyewitnesses , shortly before the explosion, the woman was talking to someone on the phone.

Novy-Europe is known about several such cases The editorial office of Novo-Europe received a message that the voter from Moscow was forced to vote through the electronic voting terminal (TEG), which were installed at polling stations. The terminals should use those voters who decided to vote remotely at the time of arrival at the site.

In Russia, with the exception of the Kaliningrad region, voting in the presidential election ended. The turnout at 20:00 Moscow time amounted to 73.33%, follows from the data on the website of the Central Election Commission. Screenshot from the website of the CEC of Russia Remotely in the Russian regions, with the exception of Moscow, 94% of voters registered for DEG voted . The highest turnout is in Chechnya.

The Russian state agency RIA Novosti publishes a video with queues to sites in The Hague, New York, Almaty, Istanbul and other cities and countries. The reports cite the words of the consuls about the overwhelming turnout, noted Novaya Gazeta Europe. The queues outside Russian embassies in different countries are also published today by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Readers of Novo-Europe are divided by their protest ballots in the presidential election From the first day of the presidential election, Russians publish photos of spoiled ballots. So they protest against unfair and non -competitive elections with a predictable result. Some citizens vote for any candidate besides Putin, others put marks in squares opposite more than one name so that none of the politicians get a voice.

Russians form long queues at polling stations to protest Putin’s rule People lining up near a polling station in St. Petersburg on Sunday. Photo: EPA-EFE/ANATOLY MALTSEV Thousands of people in Russia and abroad lined up near polling stations and embassies on Sunday to cast their votes in a campaign designed to show the mass turnout of opposition voters.

On polling stations in St. Petersburg, dozens and even hundreds of people came to the noon of the last vote, the correspondent of Novaya Gazeta Europe reports. Dmitry Tsyganov / "New Gazeta Europe" According to him, the queues are standing in the Central, Petrograd, Vasileostrovsky, Nevsky, Vyborg, Primorsky districts of the city. Coming to one of the WIKs confirmed the Novo-Europe correspondent that they take part in the “Noon against Putin” shares.