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Putin’s opposition know his election is a sham. They have a plan for change

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At midday on Sunday, on the last day of the Russian presidential vote, those opposing Vladimir Putin’s repression will answer the final call of Alexei Navalny, the late face of anti-Kremlin opposition.

Russians cannot affect the result of , Mr Navalny said two weeks before he was announced dead – but if they turn up at polling stations all at the same time, the Kremlin may glimpse just how many people wish s more than two-decade. This election, for which voting began on Friday, will add another six years to that. It is entirely managed by the Kremlin to do

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