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Russians head to polls for presidential election
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English - March 17, 2024 17:48 - 5 minutes - 4.72 MB - ★★★★ - 11 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Russia has gone to the polls, with people voting in the presidential election over the weekend.
A former Soviet and Russian diplomat, Rouben Azizian, who's now a professor of defence and security studies at Massey University, says the question for the rest of the world is whether to recognise the elections, and the outcome, as legitimate.
Professor Azizian spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.