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Paul Goble: Duma vote outcome will show who’ll be president in 2024

By Paul A. Goble.

Published Sept. 18, 2021 at 10:50 am

Members of a local election commission empty ballot boxes and sort ballots for the futher counting on Sunday on the first day of the three-day parliamentary election in the far eastern city of Vladivostok on Sept. 17, 2021.

Georgy Satarov, a former advisor to Boris Yeltsin who now comments frequently on current Russian politics, says that the results of the Duma elections now taking place in the Russian Federation will show who will be the country’s president three years from now.