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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20190925-112735-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/voting-in-russia-please-dont-call-it-elections/ Voting in Russia: Please Don’t Call it “Elections” Bogush, Gleb eng 2019-09-25 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 elections Electoral Fraud Russia Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 On September 8, numerous Russian regions voted in the framework of a so-called “single voting day”. Most significantly, Moscow voted for the members of City Council (“Duma”), and Russia’s second-largest city Saint Petersburg was to elect its governor. It would be a mistake, however, to draw any conclusions on the sentiments of the Russian people from the results as the voting process was skewed at every stage of the so-called “election”.