Putin’s victory will extend his political dominance of Russia by six years to 2024. That will make him the longest-serving ruler since Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. With more than 56 million votes, it was Putin’s biggest ever win and the largest by any post-Soviet Russian leader. But the OSCE in Europe said restrictions on fundamental freedoms, as well as on candidate registration, had reduced the scope for political engagement and crimped competition: „Choice without real competition, as we have seen here, is not real choice.”
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