In Mikhail Bulgakov’s great novel “The Master and Margarita”, set in Stalin’s Moscow in the 1930s, Satan’s mischievous company performs magic tricks in a comedy theatre. It showers the audience with banknotes. People leap and scramble to catch them as they flutter down. Next day, needless to say, they are all worthless.
Alexei Navalny
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People vote during the last day of the three-day parliamentary and local elections in Saint Petersburg on Sept. 19, 2021.
