"Alphabet of dissent": Soviet lawyer between power and citizen Ivan Tolstoy: A logical dramatic question: why are the defenders who were not dissidents were not dissenting, nevertheless fall into our cycle? Your point of view? Andrei Gavrilov: precisely because they were dissenting.

The day that the indifferent Russian public has been waiting for so long has come and even ended! Putin will win interesting or not a little worried - Stalingulag (@stalingulag) March 18, 2018 However, we will not be cunning - I must win! After processing about a third of the ballots, Putin's result was about 73%, Grudinin about 15%, Zhirinovsky slightly less than 7%. Nobody jumped over the bar of two percent of their other participants.

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In South Korea, the Paralympic Games ended. The first place in the medal standings was taken by the national team from the USA. Paralympic athletes from Russia took second place. In third place is the Canadian team. In total, 80 sets of awards were played. Mikalina Lysova won the most awards among the Russian Paralympians. She competed in a ski and biathlon race among athletes with visual impairment.

In Russia, a vote in the presidential election began. The first polling stations were opened in the Far East, where the turnout by 12 hours of local time exceeded 28 percent. This is evidenced by the data on the CEC website. So, in Kamchatka, more than 30 percent of voters voted in four hours, more than 47 percent on Chukotka. And in ten villages of Kamchatka and Chukotka, the turnout was one hundred percent, Interfax reports. According to the voter agency, they are actively attracted to sites.

Observers report illegal agitation, coercion to voting and stuffing ballots

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The current vote is the first election of the Russian president for the annexed peninsula. More than a thousand two hundred polling stations are opened there. In Sevastopol, to everyone who voted, they give out commemorative medals.

British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson considers the mirror response of Russia to the expulsion of London of her diplomats "meaningless." "These useless measures will hit ordinary Russians only, because they will take their harmless opportunity to learn English or request a visa," wrote Johnson on Sunday for the British newspaper The Sun. Russia is becoming more and more lonely and isolated. Putin, according to the British minister, unlike the UK, there are no "friends" among other countries.

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In the annexed Crimea, polling stations for voting in the election of the President of Russia were opened. A record number of observers registered on the peninsula-more than 40 people from 20 countries of the world, including from Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Ukraine, MBH-Media reports .

In Moscow, the Kuban activist Daria Polyudova was detained on Manezhnaya Square. She reported this by telephone of the hotline of the OWD-Info. According to her, the reason for the detention was a ribbon in the colors of the Ukrainian flag on her clothes. Polyudova stood with a single picket, protesting against the elections. The police say they will take the activist on foot to the Vykhino police department. On October 20, 2017, Daria Polyudova was released.

In the election of the President of Russia, almost 900 violations in more than 70 regions of the country recorded. Such data on violations gives a movement in defense of voter rights "Voice". Violations are mainly related to the stuffing of ballots, a mass -disposal of voters and the removal of observers.

In Kyiv and other cities of Ukraine on Sunday, March 18, security measures were increased near the official representative offices of Russia. Earlier, the Ukrainian authorities announced that only diplomats will be able to vote in Russian elections. The Ukrainian police strengthened the protection of the Russian Embassy in Kyiv and consulates in Odessa, Lviv and Kharkov.

Supporters of Vladimir Putin celebrate his victory on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow. March 18 According to preliminary data from the Central Election Commission, Vladimir Putin, by a large margin, leads in the first round of the presidential election, gaining about 75 percent of the vote. The appearance of voters, according to preliminary estimates, amounted to about 60 percent.