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Embarrassment for Putin: When voting in the Russian election, the wife of the Russian ambassador to Germany appeared with a scarf in the Ukraine colors.
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Vladimir Putin wants to secure his fifth term in office with the election in Russia.
There were also elections in Berlin.
The ambassador's wife made an embarrassing mistake.
Berlin - Sometimes it's the little things that suddenly get a lot of attention during a big event - intentionally or unintentionally.
In the election in Russia on Sunday, March 17th, Russians abroad were also called upon to vote.
The Russian ambassador Sergei Natschaev also cast his vote in Berlin in a highly public manner.
He was accompanied by his wife.
But it wasn't her ballot paper for the Russian election that was in the foreground, but rather her scarf, which was apparently chosen in the colors of the Ukrainian flag: blue and yellow.
Election in Russia: Ambassador's wife makes embarrassing mistake when casting vote in Berlin
If the ambassador's wife's scarf was actually chosen in the colors of Ukraine, the possible faux pas could very likely have repercussions.
At the moment, however, the damage seems to have already been done, with recordings of voting in the Russian election making the rounds on social media.
For Vladimir Putin, it could be an embarrassing disgrace in a mixed election.
The Russian Foreign Ministry quickly tried to limit the damage and explained that it was a colorful scarf with the colors black, yellow, white and blue.
Putin wants to secure his term in office with an election in Russia: protests on the last day of voting also in Berlin
The election in Russia for a fifth term in office for Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, organized with a heavy hand by Russia's power apparatus, is actually intended to symbolically strengthen the president's back in the midst of the Ukraine war.
But the vote was accompanied by a remarkable wave of protests on the last day from thousands of opponents of the long-time president.
The mood also seems heated in Berlin.
However, based on the turnout in the Russian election, it looks as if things are not going well for Putin.
The election took place at the Consulate General in Bonn.
Numerous Russians are said to have cast their votes.
The police estimated the number of people waiting in a line several hundred meters long over several hours in the afternoon at around 1,000. There were two demonstrations near the Consulate General as standing rallies.
According to the police, 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, as participants say.
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On the last day of the election in Russia, the widow of Navalny critic Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, also cast her vote in Berlin.
As Navalnaya walks through the line with her spokeswoman Kira Yarmysch, most people shout words of approval to her and make room for her, and a chant briefly rings out over hundreds of meters with the words “No to war” - all in Russian.
Navalny's widow says she wrote her late husband's name on the ballot paper in the Russian presidential election.
(fbu/dpa)