A Russian opposition politician lost weekend elections to a Kremlin-aligned opponent after spoiler candidates in the country’s second city Saint Petersburg changed their names and even appearances to resemble him.
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Agence France-Presse: Russian opposition politician loses vote marred by doppelgangers
In this file photograph taken on Sept. 6, 2021, Boris Vishnevsky, a 65-year-old member of the liberal Yabloko party running for re-election to the regional parliament in Saint Petersburg, poses with a printed image of a mockup of an official election poster featuring nearly identical photos of him and two other Boris Vishnevskys side by side in Saint Petesburg.
