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Russian election latest: Putin claims landslide win as West condemns 'pseudo-election' - BBC News Russian election latest: Putin claims landslide win as West condemns 'pseudo-election' - BBC News
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Vitaly Shevchenko
BBC Monitoring
During Russia's presidential elections Moscow launched a wide-ranging campaign telling residents living in occupied parts of Ukraine to vote in Russia's presidential election.
For the first time, the national vote took place over three days (15 - 17 March), although voting began early in the occupied parts of four Ukrainian regions: Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk.
One resident complained of pro-Russian collaborators with ballot boxes going from house to house looking for voters accompanied by armed soldiers.
Yulia Navalnya, who is the widow of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, has thanked supporters for taking part in yesterday's "noon against Putin" protest. A pro-vote campaign called InformUIK, ostensibly designed to inform Ukrainians about the procedure of voting, seeks to visit all remaining residents of Russian-occupied regions at home.
She has posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, and says she is grateful to the people "who stood with me from 12 noon for a whole six hours, side-by-side in line at the polling station" at the Russian embassy in Berlin. They collect personal data to compile lists of voters, and sometimes film local residents during such visits. Russia's electoral chief in the partly occupied Zaporizhzhia region acknowledged that locals were worried about the filming.
Yulia Navalnya called for people to form long queues at polling stations at midday on Sunday in a show of protest against President Putin. Residents were also sent text messages informing them of the dates of the vote and tried-and-tested Soviet methods have also been deployed to attract people to polling stations, such as free concerts and food.
Navalnya says it gave her hope when people shouted "Yulia, we are with you" and called out her late husband's name. Read more on this story here.
Alexei Navalny died last month in a remote penal colony in Siberia where he was being held on a 19-year sentence over charges that were widely seen as politically motivated.
His wife also says that the supporters who came out gave her hope that "everything is not in vain, that we will still fight".
She thanks everyone "who came out in every city around the world" and says "I love you all very much".
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