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Russian election latest: West condemns Russian election but China and India back Putin's win - BBC News Russian election latest: Crowds gather in Red Square as Putin claims landslide election win - BBC News
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Sarah Rainsford The concert has kicked off with a group performing on stage, and dozens of Russian flags flying in the crowd.
reporting from Kyiv A performer is singing a rousing patriotic song about how "being together is the most beautiful thing in the world", in the style of a pop ballad.
Russian elections have been tightly controlled for a long time, increasingly so each year. This time, there were no genuine opposition candidates on the ballot at all. Presenters are shouting on stage about how families should have more than three children "so that our country will have more fantastic people".
The Kremlin has spent years creating the impression that there is no other choice: that Putin is Russia. 'Together' is understood to be in reference to the union between Russia and Crimea.
But for Ukraine, Putin is Mariupol, Bucha and Bakhmut.
He's the reason for the rows of fresh graves at every town cemetery; for the displacement of millions from their homes and the nights in bomb shelters and basements for those who've stayed.
It was Vladimir Putin who launched the war that badly injured a young girl I met in Chernihiv, after a missile attack, then killed her brother at the front line, where he had gone to fight as a volunteer.
That same war sent another Ukrainian soldier back to the front today. Before he left, he told me he's the only one of his original group of some 30 men "still walking".
Of course, Putin hasn't done all this alone.
That's why it's hard to find Ukrainians these days who speak well of any Russians.
Relations between two neighbours have been ruined for decades, perhaps longer.
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