Brave Russians say NO to 'vote Vlad': Election booths are vandalised and set on fire, ballot boxes filled with dye and polling stations attacked with fireworks as citizens REFUSE to back Putin

Daily Mail ^ | 3/15/2024 | James Reynolds

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Russian citizens have conducted a string of explosive protests in defiance of a presidential election rigged in favour of Vladimir Putin as voting opened on Friday.

Video purported to show a woman dousing a Moscow voting booth in flammable liquid before setting it on fire and recording the drama on her smartphone.

The fire was promptly extinguished and the woman detained, according to local media. But similar acts of vandalism continued around the country, with a voter setting a ballot box alight in Khanty Mansi region in Siberia, according to local reports.

In Saint Petersburg, a woman threw a Molotov cocktail at a school being used as a voting station, according to electoral authorities, while an explosive device was detonated at a polling station in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine.

Five people in at least four regions poured dye into ballot boxes, and another was detained for lighting fireworks inside the polling station.

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