Wilfried Devillers / Photo credits: ERIC BRONCARD / HANS LUCAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP 06:56, March 18, 2024

Vladimir Putin was re-elected President of the Russian Federation for the fifth time with 87% of the vote.

An election closely followed by Russian exiles living in Berlin and Paris, where they expressed their concern and dismay, this Sunday, March 17.

Vladimir Putin was re-elected for six more years in the Kremlin, with 87% of the votes, according to almost complete results of an unopposed presidential election, calibrated to guarantee his triumph.

In France, Russian exiles closely followed the presidential election.

On Sunday, they demonstrated in Paris against the regime of Vladimir Putin and his re-election.

Exiles for whom a return to Russia is currently impossible.

Europe 1 went to meet them.

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“I have no hope”

Uliana, an anti-Putin activist, fled Russia at the start of the war in Ukraine.

Behind her dark glasses, her eyes darken when she thinks about the future.

"For the moment, I have no hope. It seems to me that everything is destroyed. And to be free in Russia, you really have to change the system and that will take centuries," she breathes. 

The young woman has not seen her parents for two years.

A painful estrangement for Kosma.

This activist knows that he cannot return to the country for the moment.

“It’s impossible to return. It’s 20 years in prison for anti-war activism,” he explains on Europe 1.

“We must continue the work to combat propaganda”

Due to his work as a journalist critical of the Kremlin, Denis was declared a "foreign agent" by Moscow.

He still continues to fight from France.

"We must continue the work to combat propaganda. Alexeï Navalny already left a message before his death: 'don't give up'. This is why I started a new page here in France and I am useful here as as a journalist,” he testifies.

Denis did not go to vote on Sunday at the Russian embassy, ​​for fear of being arrested and sent back to Moscow where he risks prison.