Russia threatens ‘bastard’ saboteurs with jail as opposition leader urges protesters to storm sham election

RUSSIA has threatened to jail “treacherous, bastard” saboteurs of Vladimir Putin’s sham presidential election.

It comes ahead of a protest endorsed by the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny who died last month at the hands of Russian authorities.

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Anti-Putin protesters have been urged to storm polling stations Russia tomorrow afternoon.

Opposition leader Dmitry Gudkov said the main goal of the campaign is to show resistance to Putin’s re-election.

He told The Sun: ‘We want lines of people to appear at different polling stations so that everyone can see lines of people who have come out against Putin and against the war.

“The main task is to show that Putin does not have much support, that there are a large number of people who are against the war.

“The main task is to undermine the legitimacy of this Putin government.”

The 71-year-old Putin is said to be furious at the way the Russians have sabotaged his presidential elections so far with protests and stunts.

Polling stations across the country were hit by a wave of fire and paint attacks on Fridaythe first day of the mock elections.

Several Russians were reportedly arrested for vandalism after pouring dye into ballot boxes and throwing petrol bombs at voting booths.

At least two more attacks on ballot boxes were reported today, in addition to the 15 recorded yesterday.

Putin’s fake elections were too the target of cyber attacksRussia said, causing chaos among online voters today.

Online polls are said to be facing a widespread denial-of-service attack aimed at slowing down and then shutting down websites and computers.

The despot is almost certain to win another six-year term in the presidential election – and could remain there current until 2036.

But the Russians appear to be resisting certain victory at the polling booths, destroying people’s votes by pouring dye on them, setting fire to ballot boxes and setting off fireworks at polling stations.

Putin’s henchman Dmitry Medvedev today demanded that draconian treason laws, not election laws, be used against the saboteurs.

The former president said: “They are traitors, and their actions can be classified much more strictly,” adding that their “high treason” amounted to providing “aid to a foreign state during a war.”

He continued: “This is not a children’s match game or a harmless joke involving green.

“This is direct aid to the degenerates who are shelling our cities today.

‘Criminal activists in polling stations must realize that their actions can yield results in twenty years [of jail].”

The official face of the Kremlin’s election machine, Ella Pamfilova, yesterday called the protesters “bastards” who are “destroying the people’s votes.”

She today claimed to have prevented “all kinds of liquid injections into 20 polling stations and eight attempted arson”, adding: “In one case they tried to use a smoke bomb.”

Politician Gudkov told The Sun that the acts had “never happened before,” which “speaks to the attitude that already exists in society towards this procedure of taking power.”

He said: “There will be no change of power in the elections.

“The elections are already illegal because they are taking place in the occupied territories.

“We use elections to give people the opportunity to protest what is happening, but we understand very well that they (Putin’s government) have the opportunity to achieve results.”

The planned protest, called Midday Against Putin, was promoted by Navalny before his untimely death in a penal colony last month.

The Russian opposition leader died under mysterious circumstances while serving a 19-year prison sentence on trumped-up charges.

Western leaders and members of his camp claim he was ‘killed’ on Putin’s direct orders.

A UN human rights An expert said on Monday that Moscow was responsible for his death as he was either murdered jail or died under conditions of detention amounting to torture, Reuters reports.

Earlier this month, Navalny was widowed called on the Russians to unleash chaos on election day and protest the aging dictator by swarming polling stations.

Yulia followed her husband’s call to action and said: “This is a very simple and safe action, which cannot be banned, and it will help millions of people to see like-minded people and realize that we are not alone.

‘We are surrounded by people who are like that against waragainst corruption and against lawlessness.”

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