Commission said there have been 20 incidents so far are people targeting ballot boxes and protest could continue on sunday with supporters of the late opposition figure Alexei Navalny calling on people throughout russia to protest against president putin. In the estonian town where many residents are russian, people cross the border to vote in the president ial election. It is one of only a handful of places where the border between the eu and russia still open. Here in the Estonian Border town lies the frontier between the western world and russia. Across the russia with its formidable forgers lies a town 140 kilometres away from St Petersburg and it is at one of a handful of places where the border between the eu and russia still open. In this place and the surrounding region thousands of people are in fact russian citizens. This is the legacy of the soviet union break up. In the 19605 and 705 people were brought from the soviet union to work in local industries and after the collaps
This is cnn Breaking News good morning made, this sunday and have recovered and we begin with this Breaking News moments ago in russia, the last polls closed following a threeday president ial election. With no genuine opposition candidates appearing on the ballot. The outcome was never in doubt. Vladimir putin is expected to win the vote that will keep his grip on power through 2030. He has already, as russias longestserving ruler since soviet dictator joseph stalin, weve got full coverage for you. Cnns Matthew Chance is in moscow and Fred Pleitgen is in berlin. Matthew, you first despite the lack of opposition, there were there any acts of defiance today were yet to happen. In fact, of the course of the past three days when voting has been taking place has been a surprisingly high level of acts of defiance, disruption at Polling Stations, and things like that. Youve got to remember, russia is a country where public displays of dissent and criticism of the kremlin cant have extremely
On sunday, when supporters of the late Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny are calling on people throughout russia to protest against president putin. Meanwhile in the estonian Town Of Narva, where many residents are russian, people crossed the border to vote in russias president ial election. Narva is one of only a handful of places where the border between the eu and russia is still open. Bbc russian s Oleg Boldyrev sent this report. Here in Estonian Border Town Of Narva lies the frontier between the western world and russia. Across the river with its formidable fortress lies a town 170 kilometres away from St Petersburg and this is one of a handful of places where the border between the eu and russia is still open. What is even more unusual is in this place and the surrounding region thousands of people are in fact russian citizens. In this place and the surrounding region thousands of people are in fact russian citizens. This is the legacy of the soviet union break up. In the 1960s an
Its ahead of a planned Ground Offensive in the Southern City of rafah, where about 1. 5 Million People are sheltering. It is being reported this morning, not a huge amount of detail what those humanitarian islands would look like. It is right at the very southern end of the gaza strip, where more than half of the population is now sheltering and is a place where israel has said it needs to carry out a military Ground Offensive because it says in order to achieve its aim of fully removing hamas run gaza, the only way to do thatis hamas run gaza, the only way to do that is target hamas s remaining leadership when they are believed to be in and among civilians sheltering in rafa. Of course this remains an operation which has questions attached, certainly the word ireland is interesting because a central part of the gaza strip has been left severely damaged by months of Israeli Ground and air attacks. People who live there have left their homes, been going back to those areas but of course
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