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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.

© Nanna Heitmann for The New York Times

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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