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Daily Mirror
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Will Stewart

Russian election fixer who coined motto ‘Putin’s always right’ dies suddenly

The Russian official in charge of Vladimir Putin's "rigged" elections for nine years has died suddenly aged 70.

Vladimir Churov had been chairman of the Russian Central Election Commission and notoriously operated under a motto that “Putin is always right”.

Opposition factions strongly criticised him over “election fraud” in Putin’s favour during his term from 2007 to 2016.

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