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ICYMI ➡️ Vladimir Putin won his fifth term as Russia’s president on Monday. His term is set to last for at least another six years. Putin, 71, faced little competition; his opponents are either in jail or in exile abroad. His most prominent competition- Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny - died in a remote Arctic penal colony last month. The election drew Russians to protest against President Putin by flooding polling stations at noon as part of a protest dubbed “Noon Against Putin”, which was “a workaround of Russia’s restrictive laws on public assembly.” According to the Moscow Times, more than 2,500 people joined the line in Yerevan, Armenia (shown). Joining protestors in Berlin was Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Alexei Navalny, who, in a previous statement published on March 6, said, “We need to use election day to show we exist and that there are a lot of us,” according to a Novaya Gazeta translation. Despite opposers’ efforts, Vladimir Putin received 87% of the vote, ac...
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