Russia’s presidential election last spring gave President Vladimir Putin a fifth term in office and mostly overshadowed many other Russian political stories. But this fall, Russia held another set of national elections where voters elected nearly 4,000 candidates to regional positions. Among them were some opposition candidates who vocally oppose the Kremlin and the war in Ukraine. Levi Bridges has the story.
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