As Russians head to the polls for the presidential election on Sunday March 18, the outcome will not be in doubt for a moment.
Vladimir Putin is even more popular now, after 18 years in power, than the last time he stood in 2012. The last independent survey of voters in December found that 61 per cent would cast their ballot for a fourth term for the president, whose approval rating has not dipped below 80 per cent since the 2014 annexation of Crimea.
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That put him 53 points ahead of the nearest challenger, clearing the path for another six years of Mr Putin’s rule. Opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been barred from running and kept off state television, but would be unlikely to win if he was…
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