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Russians crowd polling stations at midday in anti-Putin protest Russians crowded outside polling stations at midday Sunday on the last day of a three-day presidential election, apparently heeding an opposition call to protest against President Vladimir Putin. Polls opened Friday in a tightly controlled environment where Putin only faces competition from three token rivals and there is little public criticism of him or his war in Ukraine. Putin’s fiercest political foe, Alexei Navalny, died in an Arctic prison last month, and other critics are either in jail or in exile. There are no significant independent observers monitoring the election.