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Russia elections: Navalny's widow Yulia thanks anti-Putin protesters as she casts vote in Berlin - BBC News Russia elections: Navalny's widow Yulia thanks anti-Putin protesters as she casts vote in Berlin - BBC News
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More than eight million voters have cast their ballots online in this presidential election, according to an election commission official. Voting has now closed across Russia, but Russians living abroad will continue to vote at their country's embassies until 20:00 local time.
This is the first time that electronic voting has been used in a Russian presidential vote and one of those to take part was Vladimir Putin, who was filmed voting with a single click on a keyboard on Friday. As we've reported, exit polls are giving Vladimir Putin a predictable landslide victory.
The head of independent monitoring group Golos (Voice) said earlier that the use of electronic voting made the whole election even less open to public scrutiny. Here are some pictures of people voting across Russia.
The system was used in parliamentary elections three years ago in seven regions and opposition candidates at the time said it deprived them of victory. Although Putin is popular among many Russians, he faced no real challengers in this election and his fifth term has essentially been a given.
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