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Russia 2018: Kremlin Countdown

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A tip sheet on Russia's March 18 presidential election delivering RFE/RL and Current Time TV news, videos, and analysis along with links to what our Russia team is watching. Compiled by RFE/RL correspondents and editors.

Video of ballot stuffing in Moscow Oblast:

A polling station in Chelyabinsk has reported a 100 percent turnout with zero violations.

Another video from our correspondent in Moscow, Chris Miller:

Somebody has creatively spoiled their ballot -- renaming the candidates as Game of Thrones characters. (Putin is the Night King.)

Republic.ru has a compelling photo essay, The Election At The End Of The World, showing voters casting their ballots in Yakutia in the Russian Far East.

Economist Sergei Aleksashenko: "This is a standard Soviet-Russian election of the Putin period. Unwanted candidates are not allowed, the necessary votes are cast, and the electoral authorities are engaged in falsification."

According to the independent monitoring group Golos, there are reports of voters being pressured to go to the polls.

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