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Marseille - Rythmes scolaires : la justice contraint la mairie à organiser des garderies
Sometimes a Nobel Peace Prize is like buying someone a too-small dress, as an incentive to lose the weight to fit the dress. It's a nice idea, but it ends up getting ugly. Greg Shapiro explains.
A screen shown at a briefing by Russia's Central Election Commission shows the expected results of the four presidential election candidates. Incumbent president Vladimir Putin is expected to receive 87.85% of the vote, while Communist Party candidate Nikolay Kharitonov comes in at second with 3.86%, New People candidate Vladislav Davankov is projected to receive 3.76%, and far-right Liberal Democratic Party leader Leonid Slutsky is set to get 2.97%. IMAGES
Dozens of people stage an election day protest outside the Russian Embassy in London, with many in the British capital heeding opposition calls to demonstrate against Vladimir Putin on the third day of Russia's presidential vote. Having barred candidates critical of the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine, Putin is running virtually unchallenged and his re-election appears all but inevitable. IMAGES
Dozens of protesters holding signs critical of the Kremlin demonstrate outside the Russian embassy in Paris, heeding opposition calls to demonstrate against President Vladimir Putin on the last day of the country's presidential vote. Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who lives in exile in France after protesting the offensive in Ukraine on Russian state TV, is in attendance, telling AFP they want to "to show all the world we are against Putin." IMAGES