A former Kremlin security agent has won a seat as governor in a landslide at Russia’s nationwide elections on Sunday, Russian independent news agency Interfax reports.
The vote, which included elections to Russia’s lower house of parliament, as well as gubernatorial and local positions, gave ruling United Russia party a bigger majority but also came with the lowest turnout in parliament’s post-Soviet history.
Not only did the Russian President Vladimir Putin’s party won the largest number of seats ever, one of his appointees as governor, won his first election with over 80 percent of the vote.
Alexey Dyumin, a former agent of …read more
Source: Newsweek
