The outcomes of this effort would, after all, don’t have any authorized weight in Russia and wouldn’t finish Putin’s presidency per se, however the referendum may, in principle, give a public relations increase to efforts to oust him. And it provides Russians a method to voice criticism in a nation the place the results of dissent could be excessive; opposition chief Alexei Navalny just lately died whereas jailed in an Arctic penal colony.


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