Moscow’s Stage-Managed Parliament Vote to Bolster Legitimacy
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Russia’s first parliamentary elections since the Ukraine invasion are stage-managed by the Kremlin to project legitimacy for ongoing war efforts; analysts expect the Duma to remain largely unchanged with United Russia maintaining a supermajority, while the Kremlin filters candidates, pressures public-sector workers, mobilizes business support, and uses online voting to fine-tune results.
- Why Russia Holds Elections, and How the Kremlin Gets the Results It Wants The New York Times
- Empty podiums, prizes for e-voting, no opposition: Russians head to the polls amid intensifying war in Ukraine CNN
- Russians vote in a Kremlin-controlled election stalked by unease over Putin’s Ukraine war NBC News
- Russians go to polls against backdrop of Ukraine war and Putin’s tightening grip The Guardian
- The view from Russia: ‘No party can be antiwar’ in parliamentary election aljazeera.com
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