The presidential election in Russia entered its third and final day on Sunday. The vote is intended to secure President Vladimir Putin, 71, who has dominated Russian politics for almost a quarter of a century, another six-year term in office until 2030. The Kremlin has organized the vote in such a way as to demonstrate the population’s supposedly high level of trust in Putin and support for his war against Ukraine. According to independent electoral law experts in Russia and abroad, the conditions for the vote are neither free nor fair: The opposition is excluded and the three authorized oppos…