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Potemkin polls: Russia’s elections

The Intelligence from The Economist

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What's the Biggest Political Implication of the Russian Election?

United russia still has a majority it i think it does both the society at large and the kremlin itself. And the lits will know that this is not an honest result. I've seen people who' never voted before, or didn't bother, still coming to vote because they are fed up. Real incomes have been falling for the past six years. People sense there is no future in this system. It's changed in a way that the communists have become a real political force. They now recognize that the reason they are in parliament is not because the cronmen lets them, but because the voters are voting for them.

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