Putin claims a landslide, but he can’t hide the smoke over Moscow

The Kremlin may have discovered the perfect election strategy: eliminate the possibility of losing. Why bother with opposition or the unpredictability of a free vote when you can simply remove the competition? Russia’s first parliamentary election since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion had all the familiar trappings of democracy, such as ballots, polling stations, […]

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