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  • I don't have a source here, but from what I am reading and hearing Putin still needs to do kind of well in the elections. He's got a very very heavy thumb on the scale, but his still not at the stage where he can outright manufacture a result without consequence.

  • That’s one way of putin’ it. I suppose that when you can put up your own sock puppet opponents and have the instruments of the state harass, obstruct, imprison and murder any actual opponents, there’s no excuse for not knocking it out of the park.

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