Embarrassing for Putin: Ambassador's wife votes in Berlin - with Ukraine scarf. Vladimir Putin wants to secure his fifth term in office with the election in Russia.

There were also elections in Berlin. Police estimated the number of people waiting in a line several hundred meters long over several hours in the afternoon at around 1,000. Around 2,000 voters and 500 to 800 demonstrators gathered at the Russian embassy in Berlin Unter den Linden. Numerous people wave flags in white-blue-white, which are supposed to be the new colors of a free Russia.