Her husband Alexei Navalny died last month while in an Arctic penal colony after he was barred from standing in this election, as well as the vote that took place six years ago.
Yulia Navalnaya claimed she wrote the name of her 'murdered' husband on her ballot while voting in the Russian presidential in election in Berlin this afternoon.
Asked whether she had a message for Putin, Navalnaya replied: 'Please stop asking for messages from me or from somebody for Mr. Putin. There could be no negotiations and nothing with Mr. Putin, because he's a killer, he's a gangster.' Supporters chanted 'Yulia, we're with you' as she entered the embassy to cast her ballot this afternoon and she thanked her fellow Russians for queuing so long.
A White House national security spokesperson said 'the elections are obviously not free nor fair given how Mr Putin has imprisoned political opponents and prevented others from running against him'. READ ALSO: Putin wins Russian election with 87.8% of the votes, exit poll shows, cementing his position at the top of the Kremlin until at least 2030 - as Zelensky accuses despot of 'doing everything to rule forever' Advertisement Only three token candidates - and no one who opposes his war in Ukraine - were allowed to run against him as he sought a fifth term.
Navalny had endorsed the 'Noon against Putin' plan in a message on social media facilitated by his lawyers before he died. The independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper called the planned action 'Navalny's political testament'. Another young woman at a different polling station, whose identity had been disguised in the same way, said she had voted for the 'least dubious' of the three candidates running against Putin.
Despite tight controls, several dozen cases of vandalism at polling stations were reported across the voting period. Others gathered at Navalny's grave in a Moscow cemetery with spoiled ballots papers scrawled with his name were placed on top of a pile of flowers. 'I have lived in Paris for a long time,' said Sergei Guriev, provost at Sciences Po, one of France's most prestigious universities. 'I have never seen such lines.'
Yulia Traub, 38, came to vote against Putin even though she said she knew the outcome. 'If you cannot do or say anything you must at least lie down and lay in the direction in which you want to move.'
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