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Hundreds of people gather to pay their respects and lay flowers at the grave of opposition leader Alexei Navalny on the final day of a presidential election that is guaranteed to cement Vladimir Putin's hardline rule. Before his death in an Arctic prison last month, Navalny urged Russians to protest on March 17. His widow, Yulia Navalnaya, has reiterated his call and said protesters should show up in large numbers at the same time to overwhelm polling stations. IMAGES
Protests begin after the closure of polling stations in Belarus. Several hundred people are chanting "Go away!" and "Want a change!" outside the embassy of Belarus in Moscow. IMAGES
Thousands of Russian opposition supporters rally in Moscow after mass police detentions at recent protests that have been among the largest since President Vladimir Putin's return to the Kremlin in 2012. IMAGES
Russian police arrest at least 200 people as they gather in Moscow to demand free and fair local elections, protest-monitoring organisation OVD Info said. IMAGES
More than 400 people including opposition leader Alexei Navalny are detained as authorities seek to break up a peaceful Moscow rally against the alleged impunity and corruption of police and courts. Russian police in riot gear moved in against the unsanctioned march at which some protesters chanted slogans against President Vladimir Putin on Russia Day, a public holiday. IMAGES of Alexei Navalny being arrested by police