Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Vladimir Kara-Murza: Muscovites use vote to say ‘no’ to Putin’s war
Anti-war protestors march in central Moscow on September 21, 2014. Thousands of Russians marched to protest against the Kremlin's involvement in the Ukraine crisis, in the country's first major anti-war rally since fighting erupted in April.
MOSCOW - Russia's regional "elections" on September 14th-cleared ahead of time of most Kremlin opponents-predictably ended with Soviet-style 80-to-90 percent approval figures for the incumbents. In St. Petersburg, where some pro-democracy candidates managed to make it onto the municipal ballot, their actual results were drowned in the thousands of "early voter ballots"-outside of the control of independent monitors-almost all of which, by pure coincidence, were cast for Vladimir Putin's United Russia party.
