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After a few weeks of desultory campaigning but months of relentless official moves to shut down significant opposition, Russia began three days of voting early Friday in a parliamentary election that is unlikely to change the country's political complexion. There's no expectation that United Russia, the party devoted to President Vladimir Putin, will lose its dominance of the
Moment, seen as an opportunity for putin to cement his grip on power or maybe not. supporters of his chief critic, jailed opposition leader alexei navalny have a plan. it is called smart voting. it is a tactical voting app that organizers users around candidates most likely to defeat those who are pro-kremlin across each of russia's 225 electoral districts, whether the voter agrees with that person's policies per se or not. that way putin's cronies run up against a surge of votes for their chief competitors, whoever they are. regardless of party. optimally the strategy would result in a purge ...
The final months ahead of the elections to the Russian State Duma (lower chamber of parliament) were marked by a total cleansing of the political field (see EDM, September 13). This included an aggressive crackdown on the Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF) (RIA Novosti, June 9), entailing reprisals against everyone who supported the structures of Alexei Navalny (Deutsche Welle—Russian service, May 17), …
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Russia has put increasing pressure on Google to block search results related to Navalny's Smart Voting campaign.