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Imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny has urged Russians to vote for anyone but incumbent President Vladimir Putin in March’s election.
Putin will use the election as an “approval of the war” he is waging against Ukraine, Navalny’s campaign warned on Thursday. “On 17 March, the day of the election, we urge everyone to come to the polls and vote against Vladimir Putin,” they added.
Election results “will be rigged,” Navalny’s team said, but everyone must understand that “Russia doesn’t need Putin anymore.”
The Russian Senate voted Thursday to hold a presidential election on March 17.
Longtime leader Putin has still to formally announce his new presidential bid — but he will almost certainly run (and win) again. After silencing almost all of his domestic political opposition, Putin is expected to stay in power until at least 2030.
Navalny has been one of those cracked down on, spending almost three years in prison — with decades more on his sentence — after he was arrested when returning to Russia from Germany, where he was treated in a Berlin hospital after being poisoned with a nerve agent.
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