The Kremlin’s clumsy efforts to engineer the outcome reveal growing anxiety about the public mood and a war that is failing Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian powers are not constrained by elections, but he is alert to the danger that his rule would look illegitimate without them. That creates a ten...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/13/the-guardian-view-on-russian-parliamentary-elections-glimpses-of-weakness-behind-the-facade)