Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Ukraine recap: Russian election special – and the winner will be … Vladimir Putin

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par Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor

Russian voters have been heading to the polls this week. But it would be misleading to say they were voting to choose a president. That’s already been done for them – it’ll be Vladimir Putin.

If there had ever been any doubt that the president of 24 years would be returned for another six, Russia’s supreme court removed that earlier this month when it upheld a decision of the Central Election Commission to ban anti-war candidate Boris Nadezhdin from running. Not that he was going to win – the director of independent Russian pollster the Levada Center, Lev Gudkov, estimated that Nadezhdin…

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