Russia is holding presidential elections this weekend and, like me, you’re no doubt waiting with bated breath to see who will come out on top this time around.
Given that Vladimir Putin’s grip on power is so absolute, it rather begs the question of why Russia’s longest-ruling leader since Joseph Stalin even bothers with elections at all. Not least because of the potential for civil disobedience they present in relation to his so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine, which may have led to hundreds of thousands of Russian casualties, by some estimates.
