President Vladimir V. Putin, 71, will undoubtedly win a fifth term, with none of the three other candidates who are permitted on the ballot presenting a real challenge.
The Kremlin needs to demonstrate huge popular support, and that this support has increased since the beginning of the war, said Nikolay Petrov, a Russian political scientist at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin.
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