Regional poll results will reassure Russian leadership

Assisted by skewed electoral rules, Kremlin candidates won resoundingly, and local protests had few knock-on effects

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  • More a Kremlin than a party success
  • Small reverses
  • Tomsk
  • Tambov
  • Novosibirsk
  • Newcomers
  • Success by various means
  • Lacklustre mobilisation
  • Effective electoral engineering

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