Many act as if Aleksey Navalny’s call for “intelligent voting” in the Duma elections was a first, Vladimir Pastukhov says; but in fact, it is the second time – the first was in 1996 – when Russians cast their ballots for someone whose policies they didn’t like could defeat someone whose policies they liked even less.
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A pedestrian walks past a graffiti of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny reading in French: "The hero of our time" next to a graffiti of Nelson Mandela on June 14, 2021 in a street of Geneva.
