Exiled or disqualified, opposition voices warn of a government stitch-up in this week’s elections.
"Putin's popularity is going down. The authorities don't want any independent MPs in parliament. That's why they get rid of all prominent opposition leaders. The security services, the police and prosecutors are the key to providing victory for Putin's forces."
"For 20 days I was forcibly hospitalised in a Covid ward," Ms Grudina explains. "They isolated me by court order so that I couldn't submit my election registration documents. "We are also expecting big fraud and falsifications. In this election there will be online voting, which lacks transparency. And there will be three days of voting. We would need up to half a million monitors for the polling stations. That's a huge number."Critics say the elections are a way of rubber-stamping President Vladimir Putin's allies
In July the authorities designated the site an "undesirable organisation", effectively closing it down. They named several of its journalists, including Mr Manyakhin, "foreign agents". Then there's Alexei Navalny. Even from jail he has a plan to embarrass the ruling party: it's called Smart Voting.
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