WATCH: Anti-Putin activists vandalize, set fire at voting stations in protest against election
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The election, with voting between Friday to Sunday, is expected to make Vladimir Putin the longest-serving Russian leader since Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.
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Several people, caught on camera, set polling stations and voting booths on fire in protest. In other locations, one woman poured green dye into a ballot box, a man set off fireworks in a polling station and in Russian-occupied Ukraine someone set off an explosive device, French outlet Le Monde reported.
A woman who poured disinfectant into a ballot box at a Moscow polling station faces between three and five years for her act, during which she shouted pro-Ukrainian slogans, Russian outlet BAZA reported.