The presidential election in Russia entered its third and final day on Sunday and was accompanied by a wave of protests by thousands of opponents of President Vladimir Putin who is widely expected to easily seal another six-year term in office. Despite attempts at intimidation by the authorities, voting on Sunday was marked in part by anti-Putin protesters, who turned out to voting locations at exactly noon as a sign of opposition to the 71-year-old Kremlin strongman, who has dominated Russian politics for almost a quarter of a century. On Sunday afternoon, the electoral commission put turnout…