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23.09.2026
🚨Official results of "elections" give United Russia 57.83% of the party-list vote and 355 of 450 State Duma seats, its largest parliamentary majority ever.
The gap between independent polling and the official result is enormous. A week before voting, ExtremeScan found United Russia at 35.6% among decided voters in a ballot without Yabloko. The official result: 57.83%. The election took place after the exclusion of the only registered anti-war party, extensive restrictions on opposition candidates and administrative mobilisation of voters. The result gives the Kremlin another constitutional majority.
22.09.2026
🚨The official reaction on Russia’s parliamentary "election" is already turning the result into a demonstration of wartime unity around Vladimir Putin.
“Participation in the elections is our common contribution to Russia’s victory,” said Putin ahead of the election. He called voting a “common response” to those seeking to “weaken Russia” and deprive it of its sovereignty.
After the vote, the same framing dominated official reactions.
21.02.2026
🔴The economy remains one of the Kremlin’s key domestic-political vulnerabilities and a core issue for Russians.
A January poll by the independent Levada Center (6) recorded a deterioration in socio-economic assessments: the share of respondents who consider the economic situation bad rose by 7 percentage points from September 2025 to 22%, while the share of positive assessments fell by 9 points from May 2025 to 19%.