BBC World Service – Newshour, Protesters arrested on final day of Russian vote

Around 50 protesters have been arrested in Russian cities on the final day of a vote set to confirm Vladimir Putin in office. Long queues formed outside polling stations, heeding a call to gather in protest. The call came from the wife of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died suddenly last month at a penal colony above the Arctic Circle. We hear from a member of President Putin’s United Russia party.

Also on the programme: One resident’s story of living in Iceland’s volcano zone; and how the tiny island nation of Palau sees its place among the big powers in the Pacific.

(Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin. Credit: Sputnik/Kremlin)

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