The heads of diplomacy of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia denounced the “ total repression” carried out against the opposition and independent media in Russia. “The upcoming presidential elections in Russia will be neither free nor fair,” they declared, denouncing “the absence of credible alternative candidates” The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry summoned a Russian diplomat to Vilnius following the death of Alexei Navalny.
Russia also plans to hold elections in the territories it annexed in 2014 and following the invasion in 2022.