JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russians go to polls after summer of protests” – AFP

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“[… A] hugely controversial campaign in Moscow that degenerated into the biggest police crackdown on protesters in nearly a decade. … [Local election] results … will be keenly watched ahead of [2021] parliamentary elections … and help shape Russia’s political future as … Putin’s regime enters [its] third decade …. [T]ens of thousands have taken part in Moscow protests demanding a fair vote after allies of opposition leader Alexei Navalny were barred from the election. …. Authorities responded with a police crackdown – the biggest since a wave of protests in 2011-12 against Putin’s return to the Kremlin ….”

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