The risk of a protest vote was too high at the Duma elections so a pre-election crackdown was carried out.
Why the Kremlin fears even the ‘managed opposition’ in Russia
The risk of a protest vote was too high at the Duma elections so a pre-election crackdown was carried out.
Originally reported by Al Jazeera
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