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Empty podiums, prizes for e-voting, no opposition: Russians head to the polls amid intensifying war in Ukraine
Russia is holding parliamentary elections, the first since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in a landscape in which critical opposition is effectively nonexistent.
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