Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s party was on track to win a majority in a parliamentary vote, results showed on September 20, but not after the tactics of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny shaved eight percentage points from United Russia’s popular vote.
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Agence France-Presse: Navalny tactic clips Putin party’s vote
This handout photo taken on June 22, 2021 and released by Moscow's Preobrazhensky district court on June 23, 2021, shows jailed Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny as he is seen on a screen during a hearing on his claim against the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center, which designated him a flight risk, in Moscow.
