The vote in occupied Ukraine has been denounced as ‘fake’ by Kyiv and the west.
MOSCOW: There is little suspense around the results of Russian local elections ending today, with no real opposition and a vote in occupied Ukraine denounced as “fake” by Kyiv and the west.
Russia’s forces in Ukraine have organised several days of voting in four regions – Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson – that Moscow claims to have annexed. During that time, Sobyanin presided over numerous mega-projects that have transformed Moscow’s skyline.In a 2013 election, he was almost defeated by ant-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny.
Sobyanin now faces no serious competition: he is up against the grandson of a veteran Communist politician and a little known candidate from a new party – largely considered to be a spoiler – dubbed “New People”.“Just yesterday, two metro stations opened,” 21-year-old student Rukhin Aliyev told AFP.Musician Kirill Lobanov said Sobyanin has “dealt very well” with governing as mayor and that even more so “in the last year”, which has been marked by Russia’s Ukraine offensive.
One of the few competitive races in Russia’s 11 time zones has emerged in Siberia’s remote region of Khakassia, observers have said.
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