How Putin’s elections were in St. Petersburg and the region Photo: Dmitry Tsyganov / "New Gazeta Europe" In St. Petersburg, the third day of the event, which in Russia continues to be called presidential elections, was very calm. It was as if on the eve of, on the eve of, on the one hand, calls to create the queues “at noon against Putin”, and on the other, warnings that it was at noon on March 17 that the line for the polling station is a crime. In the center of St.