Russia Election: Anti-Putin Protests in Moscow on Final Day of Voting

Russians are voting in the final day of the presidential election with Vladimir Putin poised to clinch a new term. Video distributed by the AP showed queues at polling stations in Moscow and at the Russian embassy in the Armenian capital Yerevan. At one polling station in Moscow, Boris Nadezhdin of the Civic Initiative party called on voters to renounce Putin. “I believe that the Russian people today have a chance to show their real attitude to what is happening,” Nadezhdin, who was barred from running in the election, said.
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