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Russian voters, answering Navalny’s call, protest Putin’s forever rule
On the final day of a presidential election with only one possible result, Russians protested Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian hold on power by forming long lines to vote against him at noon Sunday
— answering the call of opposition leader Alexei Navalny who had urged the midday action before dying suddenly in prison last month.
The “Noon Against Putin” protest, with voters forming queues outside polling stations in major cities like Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Tomsk, Novosibirsk, was a striking
— if futile — display of solidarity and dissent designed to counteract the Kremlin’s main message
— that Putin is a legitimate president commanding massive support.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/17/russia-presidential-election-putin-protest/
On the final day of a presidential election with only one possible result, Russians protested Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian hold on power by forming long lines to vote against him at noon Sunday
— answering the call of opposition leader Alexei Navalny who had urged the midday action before dying suddenly in prison last month.
The “Noon Against Putin” protest, with voters forming queues outside polling stations in major cities like Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Tomsk, Novosibirsk, was a striking
— if futile — display of solidarity and dissent designed to counteract the Kremlin’s main message
— that Putin is a legitimate president commanding massive support.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/17/russia-presidential-election-putin-protest/