The election, which will take place over three days, is held as the war in Ukraine rages on and the Russian opposition tries to turn grief from Aleksei Navalny's death into momentum to protest 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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