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Tuesday Briefing: Putin’s Victory Spectacle

Putin turned to Ukraine after election A day after he was declared victor in Russia’s rubber-stamp presidential election, Vladimir Putin used a celebration yesterday to signal that the war against Ukraine would continue to dominate his rule — and that his fight to add territory to Russia wasn’t over. At the celebration held in Red

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Putin’s Orchestrated Election Leaves Russians With No Other Choices

The Kremlin stage-managed Russia’s presidential vote over the weekend to send a singular message at home and abroad: that President Vladimir V. Putin’s support is overwhelming and unshakable, despite or even because of his war against Ukraine. From the moment the preliminary results first flashed across state television late Sunday, the authorities left no room

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Five Takeaways From Putin’s Win in Russia

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia emerged from the three-day, stage-managed presidential vote that ended Sunday declaring that his overwhelming win represented a public mandate to act as needed in the war in Ukraine as well as on various domestic matters, feeding unease among Russians about what comes next. Mr. Putin said the vote represented

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Putin’s opposition: Dead, jailed or exiled

Dozens more critics of the Kremlin and the war in Ukraine remain behind bars or have fled into exile. Russian President Vladimir Putin has overseen a ruthless crackdown on dissidents and critics during his 24 years in power, and all his major domestic opponents are now dead, exiled or in prison. His staunchest critic of

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