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They Have Almost No Chance in Russia’s Elections. Why Are They Running?

✇NYT - World
By: Valerie Hopkins and Paul Sonne
The liberal party Yabloko is fielding 98 candidates in this weekend’s elections, a small miracle for antiwar Russians who cannot openly express their views.

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Grigory Grishin, a Yabloko candidate running for the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of Parliament, in Moscow.
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Germany’s Merz Vows to Stay After Another State Election ‘Disaster’

✇NYT - World
By: Jim Tankersley
Chancellor Friedrich Merz faced growing pressure on Sunday after his center-right party finished behind far-right and far-left parties in state elections in the east.

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“What needs to be done now requires backbone, steadfastness and patience,” Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany said Sunday.
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Why Autocrats Care What People Think

✇NYT - World
By: Paul Sonne
Russia is staging an election that matters to almost no one — except President Vladimir V. Putin and his inner circle.

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President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow.
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Why Russia Holds Elections, and How the Kremlin Gets the Results It Wants

✇NYT - World
By: Ivan Nechepurenko
Russian elections like the parliamentary vote that begins today are hardly free. But they are critical to the government as a source of legitimacy.

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Nanna Heitmann for The New York TimesA digital screen featuring candidates from the United Russia party in Moscow this week. Russians began voting on Friday in parliamentary elections.
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