Putin Is Afraid Of An Election He Can’t Lose As Russia's State Duma elections approach, the country's domestic politics are heating up in ways that would be predictable to anyone who has been paying attention to the war in Ukraine.
The latest salvo came from the nationalist Rodina party, which filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court to disqualify the Yabloko faction from participating in the elections on the grounds that they are effectively seditious foreign agents.
The move may seem like just another example of the Kremlin's attempts to suppress dissent and maintain its grip on power. But there is more at play here than meets the eye.