Navalny's widow: Putin is not the legitimate president of Russia

Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of dissident Alexei Navalny, said today that Vladimir Putin is not the legitimate president of Russia and that the official election results have no meaning. We proved to ourselves and others that Putin is not our president. We didn't elect him, Navalnya said, referring to the anti-Putin Noon protests that took place on the final day of the presidential election on March 17. On the last day of the election, the opposition in Russia called for a peaceful but symbolic political protest against the re-election of President Vladimir Putin. Thousands of people showed up at polling stations across Russia as part of the Noon Against Putin campaign. Russians opposed to Putin went to their local polling stations that afternoon either to cast invalid ballots in protest or to vote for one of the three other candidates against Putin, who was nonetheless re-elected in […]
Source: News Beast

You may also like