Vladimir Putin's grip on Russia's presidency has tightened after early results in an election many claim was rigged indicated he'd win almost 90 per cent of the vote — although not everything went his way.
Vladimir Putin has won Russia's presidential election with 87.97 per cent of the vote, according to preliminary results from the country's Central Election Commission.
Thousands of people turned up at polling stations across Russia, and abroad, to take part in a protest dubbed "noon against Putin", which had been endorsed by the anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny "I'm here to support the noon against Putin and express my protest against this government, the war, and Putin," said Niyazova, who spent six years in a Russian jail after being convicted on fraud charges she describes as trumped up.
On Sunday he bravely admitted he did not vote for Putin: "I believe that the Russian people today have a chance to show their real attitude to what is happening by voting not for Putin, but for some other candidates or in some other way, which is exactly what I did."Several hours before polls closed, the state-run Russian news agency TASS reported voter turnout had reached 67.54 per cent, a number higher than when the last presidential election was held in 2018.
Navalny, who survived a poisoning attempt in 2020, was last year jailed for more than two decades on a string of charges, including supporting extremism, which he said were fabricated. "We are against Putin and we exist and we want to show that Russia is not Putin," he told the ABC in Vilnius.TASS reported a man had thrown two petrol bombs into the courtyard of the Russian embassy in Moldova where people were able to vote, while on Friday, vision emerged of a woman launching a Molotov cocktail at a polling station in St Petersburg.
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