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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