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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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More images are coming in now of queues building outside polling stations in various locations across Russia. Vitaliy Shevchenko
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. BBC Monitoring
"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.
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:
Ivan Zhdanov, a close associate of the late Russian
opposition leader Alexei Navalny, has described the opposition’s protest at
polling stations at noon local time as a success.
“I think the event has reached its objectives. There are a
lot of people at many polling stations. People have come to show solidarity,” Zhdanov has said.
“They tried to intimidate people but they turned out for
this event nonetheless. It is true that this event was to a large extent
symbolic, but it allowed people to show support for each other,” he has said in a
live stream on the Navalny Live channel on YouTube.
Zhdanov is the head of the Anti-Corruption Foundation
set up by Navalny and now banned in Russia.
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