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Essential Geopolitics: Inside Russia's Parliamentary Elections
RANE Podcast
English - September 08, 2021 05:01 - 10 minutes - 5.02 MB - ★★★★ - 123 ratingsNews Government Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this episode of the Stratfor Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, Emily Donahue gets a briefing on the upcoming parliamentary elections in Russia from Stratfor Eurasia analyst, Matthew Orr. Russia holds parliamentary elections in September. This happens less than a month after Russian telecoms companies blocked "Navalny," a mobile app created by Alexei Navalny's inner circle to coordinate opposition votes, and amid the Kremlin’s year-long campaign to repress opposition parties. Can the opposition survive?