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Unsuspended elections are held in Russia from Friday to Sunday. The majority of united Russia, Vladimir Putin's party, should be returned to the Duma. The opposition was rejected. A "result played ahead" before a possible new wave of mobilization for the war in Ukraine. Interview with the specialist Tatiana Kastouéva-Jean.
From 18 to 20 September, the Russians voted to elect their deputies, governors and municipal councillors. As always, the vote is locked. What is behind the calls for Vladimir Putin's mobilisation and the boycotts of the debates by the candidates? Decryption of a fraud that also involves propaganda.
The European Union denounced on Friday 18 September, with the voice of a spokesman, the climate of "systematic and institutionalized repression" in which the parliamentary elections in Russia are held, against the background of war in Ukraine. The explanations of Elena Volochin, journalist in France 24 and former correspondent in Moscow.
Press coverage this Friday, September 18, the parliamentary elections in Russia, the Trump administration accused of war crimes, and speculation around the first list of the French team's selector, Zinedine Zidane.
The polling stations opened Friday in Russia for three days of legislative activity, the first since the start of the large-scale war in Ukraine in 2022. In the absence of any real opposition, Vladimir Putin's party should win this election, also organized in the Ukrainian territories occupied and annexed by Moscow.
