“Noon against Putin”: faced with the success of the operation in Russia, the authorities forced to seek explanations. In Berlin, Alexei Navalny's widow, Yulia Navalnaïa, voted in her embassy.
People came despite text messages sent by regime trolls to ban queuing. Silent queues, so that the authorities could not blame a form of demonstration, formed in front of polling stations in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, but also in the Far East. In Vladivostok, there were people arriving in the polling stations and there were queues even though there was no one there.