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VOTERS headed to the polls in Russia on Friday, March 15, 2024, for a three-day presidential election that is all but certain to extend President Vladimir Putin’s rule by six more years after he stifled dissent.The election takes place against the backdrop of a ruthless crackdown that has crippled independent media and prominent rights groups and given Putin full control of the political system.It also comes as Moscow’s war in Ukraine enters its third year.
The first polling stations opened in Russia’s easternmost regions, Chukotka and Kamchatka, at 8 a.m. local time.The election holds little suspense since Putin, 71, is running for his fifth term virtually unchallenged. His political opponents are either in jail or in exile abroad, and the fiercest of them, Alexei Navalny, died in a remote Arctic penal colony recently. The three other candidates on the ballot are low-profile politicians from token opposition parties that toe the Kremlin’s line.
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