This week, Russian citizens embarked on a journey that might transform their country in many ways and keep the Russian president Vladimir Putin and his apparatchiks in power until 2036.
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Members of a local electoral commission wearing protective gear carry a mobile ballot box into voters' apartments during the early vote in a nationwide constitutional referendum that could extend President Vladimir Putin's term in the Kremlin, in Moscow on June 29, 2020.