The Kremlin will use this victory to justify an intensified war. The high voter turnout and support for opposition candidate Davankov indicate a significant force against Putin in Russian politics.
The Kremlin will use this victory to justify an intensified war. But even the state news agency reported election rebellion with 87% of the vote in the Russian election was no surprise, these elections were important both for the Kremlin and for those in opposition to Putin . With voter turnout at 74% – the highest in history – anything less than a landslide victory would have suggested that those who did not vote for Putin represented a significant force in Russian politics.
This would have been particularly awkward in the case of young upstart Vladislav Davankov, who, with 3.79% of the vote, came a close third place. Davankov has been mistakenly described as an anti-war candidate – he supports, “but on Russia’s conditions and without one step backwards” – but his platform also called for “freedom of speech and opinion, instead of intolerance and denunciations”, and “openness and pragmatism instead of searching for new enemies”. Several opposition figures, including the well-known blogger Maxim Katz, and barred candidate Boris Nadezhdin, publicly stated they would vote for hi
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