The Guardian view on Russian parliamentary elections: glimpses of weakness behind the facade | Editorial

The Kremlin’s clumsy efforts to engineer the outcome reveal growing anxiety about the public mood and a war that is failing Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian powers are not constrained by elections, but he is alert to the danger that his rule would look illegitimate without them.

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