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    Is running against Putin pointless? Why some candidates say no.

    Jan 30, 2018 5 minutes
    Grigory Yavlinsky, presidential candidate for the liberal Yabloko party, sits in his office in Moscow.

    The idea of Russian democracy has been pretty much a pipe dream through most of recorded history. There are many who claim that only the window dressings on an essentially authoritarian state machine have been changed since the collapse of the USSR a quarter century ago.

    And as Vladimir Putin launches his fourth bid to win the supreme Kremlin job in polls slated for March 18, critics deride the coterie of “contenders” that has been assembled to oppose him as Kremlin puppets – or worse, enablers – in a process designed to anoint a preordained result with a few sprinkles of democratic oil.

    Grigory Yavlinsky, one of those contenders, tends to agree. He has been running for president of Russia at almost every opportunity for the past

    Changing the processThe Putin hurdleEnemy No. 1: apathy?

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