With no anti-war party on the ballot and the triumphant victory of the Kremlin’s main United Russia party all but assured, the three-day vote will offer little sign of how Russians really feel about the conflict and its intensifying impact on their lives.

With no anti-war party on the ballot and the triumphant victory of the Kremlin’s main United Russia party all but assured, the three-day vote will offer little sign of how Russians really feel about the conflict and its intensifying impact on their lives. ↧ Russians vote in a Kremlin-controlled election stalked by unease ov... The Kremlin sees the election as a way to reinforce its message that the public is united, but with no anti-war parties on the ballot, the vote will offer little sign of how Russians really feel.