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Allies of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have suggested that Vladimir Putin could be vulnerable following his re-election, although dissidents expressed fear that repression of opponents could become even more brutal. According to İnews media outlet, the President returned to power with more than 87 per cent of the vote in an election widely derided as a sham.
Leonid Volkov, chief of staff at the Anti Corruption Foundation – founded by Navalny – said that the inflated vote share for Putin would give him a “false sense of confidence”.
Dictators such as Romania’s Nicolae Ceausescu were deposed shortly after sweeping victories in compromised elections, noted Mr Volkov, who was recently assaulted outside his home in Lithuania in an attack he attributed to the Russian regime.
“Dictators with huge percentages often have a bad end,” said Volkov in a video address. “The greater the demonstration of people’s love, the less love there is.”
Yulia Navalnaya, Navalny’s widow, issued a message calling on followers to keep fighting in the aftermath of the vote, urging them “not to brush off work because it doesn’t immediately lead to results, but to have patience and move forward”.
Daniil Ken, head of the Teacher’s Alliance trade union affiliated to the Navalny network, told i he took encouragement from the “Noon Against Putin” campaign, in which supporters converged on polling stations at noon on Sunday to vote for opposition candidates.
About 200,000 people took part and millions more saw the action on TV, he claimed. “We will try to come up with new original ideas,” said Ken.