
Potemkin polls: Russia’s elections
The Intelligence from The Economist
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How Did the Opposition Put Up Such a Fight?
The opposition put up such a fight, there were two forces that were driving it. The commonest party is really becoming a proper opposition party. Alexey navani, from jail, says if you want to get elected, you need to be nominated and endorsed by me through this thing which he came up with calls smart voting. To stop the smart voting, or to stop the word spreading, they needed to crag down on the internab. Yet even in the face of these measures, mister puton's party won fewer votes than the last time russia went to the poles.
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