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Russia elections: Vladimir Putin seeks fifth term in tightly-controlled election - BBC News Russia elections: Vladimir Putin seeks fifth term in tightly-controlled election - BBC News
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Steve Rosenberg More images are coming in now of queues building outside polling stations in various locations across Russia.
BBC Russia editor The widow of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, has called for people to gather at midday as part of an election day protest against President Vladimir Putin.
By midday a queue of people had suddenly formed outside the "We need to use the election day to show that we exist and there are many of us," she has said in a video message about her "Midday against Putin" protest.
Moscow polling station we were at. Russia stretches 11 time zones, so midday falls at different times across the country, but here are some of the pictures we've seen so far:
Young and old. Several dozen Muscovites. They were allowed into the building in small groups.
No placards, no slogans.
Very much a silent protest.
Ivan told me why he was taking part in "Midday Against Putin".
It was important for me to see the faces of other people who would come here today and to see I am not alone in my political views."
"There are a lot of Muscovites and other people who believe Russia can be another country with another future,” Ivan adds.
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