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The midday protest: long lines at some polling stations in Moscow - News

2024-03-17T10:16:32.327Z

Highlights: queue of several hundred people had formed on the historic Arbat Street around midday. Police limit themselves to monitoring the situation and regulating the flow of voters. Total national turnout in the presidential elections in Russia, including electronic votes, exceeded 61.37% at 9.45 am Moscow time. A Ukrainian drone attack hit a polling station in the occupied part of the Ukrainian region of Zaporizhzhia. There were no victims, but the Russian Emergencies Ministry said that it was not possible to intervene to put out the flames.


The police monitor the Arbat power station (ANSA)


 Long queues are forming in front of several polling stations in central Moscow, as ANSA found.

A queue of several hundred people had formed on the historic Arbat Street around midday, when the protest called by Navalny was scheduled.

The police, present in force, limit themselves to monitoring the situation and regulating the flow of voters.

Various media and social media also show queues at other polling stations, including one in St. Petersburg.

The total national turnout in the presidential elections in Russia, including electronic votes, exceeded 61.37% at 9.45 am Moscow time (7.45 am Italian time) on the third and final day of voting, according to data communicated to you by the president of the Election Commission , Ella Pamfilova, quoted by the Tass agency.

According to Moscow, a Ukrainian drone attack hit a polling station for the Russian presidential elections in the occupied part of the Ukrainian region of Zaporizhzhia: Tass writes, citing a local pro-Russian politician.

The attack, writes the Russian agency, occurred in the town of Kamenka-Dneprovskaya, near the front line, and the affected building of the local House of Culture, which housed the polling station, caught fire.

There were no victims, but the Russian Emergencies Ministry said that it was not possible to intervene to put out the flames because "enemy attacks continued".

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