The election, which will take place over three days, is being held as the war in Ukraine rages on and the Russian opposition tries to turn grief over the death of their movement's leader, Aleksei Navalny, into momentum against Putin.
The goal is to bestow a new degree of public legitimacy on Putin for his fifth term and, very importantly, to portray Putin's invasion of Ukraine as having overwhelming public support.
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