Vladimir Putin announced that he will run for his fifth term as Russia’s president last month. He has an unexpected opponent, a mother of three who has served on a city council in a city outside of Moscow. From Riga, Latvia, Daniel Ofman reports on why Putin feels the need to hold an election at all.
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