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Putin to stoke patriotic fervour with Crimea rally

13 March 2018

Professor Andrew Wilson (UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies) comments on the "political technologies" used to manipulate post-Soviet elections, noting that the vote was running to a Kremlin script. "Grudinin passed his screen test with flying colours for the role of populist while Sobchak is a bit harder to read," he said. "The degree of puppetry varies." Read: The Times