Russia embarks on three days of voting today to reconfirm the inevitable, which is another six-year presidential term for Vladimir Putin.
Russia embarks on three days of voting today to reconfirm the inevitable, which is another six-year presidential term for Vladimir Putin . Given the fact this is simply a matter of going through the motions for Putin and for the public, why does it matter and why does his administration go to such lengths to try to secure a resounding so-called victory? First, the war-time context.
If turnout and support flag in line with a generalised anxiety regarding how this war ever reaches a conclusion - particularly a war which is pitched as a never-ending conflict with the West - then it will look as though Putin has made a terrible mistake. This he cannot allow. 'It's like Churchill saying that dictators ride on tigers they dare not dismount,' says David Kankia of the Russian electoral monitoring movement, Golos. 'We have a war crisis, a political crisis inside and outside the country. And if he gets less than he did six years ago, that will mean he doesn't have the support of his people and that will crush his syste
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