Update - Foreign absentee voting results - only in one city, Athens, Greece, did Putin get over 50%, in the rest of them, he got stomped -
https://voteabroad.info/#results-block
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.“Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, has cast her ballot in Russia’s presidential election at the Russian Embassy in Berlin.
Before voting, Navalnaya waited outside the building for six hours in a line several blocks long.
“You’re probably curious what I wrote on my ballot, who I voted for. Of course I wrote in the name ’Navalny.’ Because it can’t be true, that Putin’s main opponent, already in prison, was killed one month before the election,” Navalnaya told journalists when she came out of the embassy.” https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/03/17/yulia-navalnaya-writes-navalny-on-ballot-after-waiting-six-hours-to-vote-at-russian-embassy-in-berlin
“As Russians head to the polls on the first official day of the country’s presidential vote, people in various regions have begun pouring ink and dye into ballot boxes, presumably rendering the ballots inside unusable.
According to the Telegram channel Baza, a woman in Moscow poured green liquid into a ballot box while “shouting pro-Ukraine slogans.” Witnesses reportedly said that someone appeared to be “giving her instructions” over the phone.
The Moscow Investigative Committee has launched a felony case against the woman for obstructing the work of election officials.
Residents also reportedly poured green dye into ballot boxes at two precincts in the Voronezh regions. Police said that two people, ages 58 and 66, have been charged with felonies.” https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/03/15/russians-throughout-the-country-arrested-for-pouring-ink-into-ballot-boxes
“More than 75 people in 17 Russian cities have been detained at polling stations on the country’s final day of voting for president, the human rights media project OVD-Info reports.
The highest numbers of detentions have been reported in Kazan (at least 29 people) and Moscow (at least 19 people). At least seven detentions were reported in St. Petersburg.
In the lead-up to the elections, numerous Russian opposition figures called on voters to show up at the polls at exactly 12:00 p.m. on Sunday to show how many citizens don’t support the ruling regime. On Thursday, the Moscow Prosecutor’s Office warned Russians that participating in the “Noon Against Putin” protest would be punishable by up to five years in prison.” https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/03/17/at-least-51-people-detained-throughout-russia-amid-noon-against-putin-election-protest
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From Navalny’s Channel - how Putin shamelessly rips off Russians - whose average wage is $700 per month, before taxes of up to 40%
Lots more videos here, some may have English subtitles like the one above:
https://www.youtube.com/@NavalnyRu
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Alexei Navalny wrote this post in winter when he was thinking about an anti-Putin campaign. He imagined that shortly before March 17, Russian voters would be faced with the question of what to do at the polling stations. It is clear that everyone should vote for anyone but Putin, but how exactly? Alexei found an answer, and ACF put his idea into practise. Kira Yarmysh reads a post by Alexei Navalny that he wrote shortly before his death. Text version:
https://navalny.com/p/6674/
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On election day, I always remember what Joe Stalin said: It doesn't matter who votes; it only matters who counts the votes.
I was living in St. Petersburg when Putin was elected and I spoke to Russian friends about the new President. They said, we will decide if life is better when he is President. I wonder, today, if life is better in Russia now.
I had ominous feelings about Putin at the time. Like almost every other person, I didn't know that much about Putin, except that as Deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg, he was pretty chummy with the local mafia. As life changed for the worse in Russia after Putin came to power, I moved to Kyiv to get away from him.
I used to go cafes in St. Petersburg with friends. One day, we were eating in a small place and there were other men too, a shadowy group, with one guy alone positioned facing one door and another guy facing the other door, guards guarding the entrances.
Some local mafia Don got assassinated in the street right outside the English Hotell (Hotel Angleterre) when I was living there.
I sat once with a girl while a mafia type ate at another table and she kept saying, they are criminality, criminality, with disgust.
That's Putin's world. Assassinations, poisonings, murder in parking garages and elevators, men committing suicide by jumping out of windows on the top floors of buildings. Berezovsky, Putin's great enemy, committed suicide in his mansion in Britain by hanging himself in his shower, of course, with two broken legs. And the guy who started RT (Russia Today), the Putin propaganda channel) died of natural causes in a Washington DC hotel the night before he was going to testify to Congress. Right! It was ruled an accident even though he was beaten to death. In Berlin, an enemy of Putin was shot to death in Berlin's biggest park. And naturally Navalny died of "natural causes" on the day his wife was due to speak at the Global Security Conference.
Is anybody's life better since Putin became the perpetual Czar of Russia?