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The Globe and Mail on the paramount weirdness of elections on the not-quite-occupied territories, with some figures supplied by the Central electoral commission and myself.

НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН, РАСПРОСТРАНЕН И (ИЛИ) НАПРАВЛЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ (НАИМЕНОВАНИЕ, ФАМИЛИЯ, ИМЯ ОТЧЕСТВО (ПРИ НАЛИЧИИ), СОДЕРЖАЩАЯСЯ В РЕЕСТР ИНОСТРАННЫХ АГЕНТОВ) ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА (НАИМЕНОВАНИЕ, ФАМИЛИЯ, ИМЯ, ОТЧЕСТВО (ПРИ НАЛИЧИИ), СОДЕРЖАЩАЯСЯ В РЕЕСТР ИНОСТРАННЫХ АГЕНТОВ)

"Ekaterina Schulmann, a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin, said Russia’s Central Election Commission has registered 4.6 million voters in the four regions – despite the fact the wartime populations in the areas under Russian control are estimated at 3.3 million total.

Prof. Schulmann predicted the Kremlin would claim to win more than 85 per cent of the vote in those regions.

“It’s not a peaceful territory, so you can’t have elections there. It’s all completely fake,” she said, adding that the appearance of an overwhelming vote for Mr. Putin from the occupied parts of Ukraine would also serve Kremlin propaganda by showing how enthusiastic the residents were to come under Russian rule.

The international community has denounced Russia’s presidential election in occupied territories in Ukraine. The chairs of parliamentary committees on foreign affairs, including from Canada, the United States and a number of European countries, issued a joint statement saying they “unequivocally reject the legitimacy of the elections.”

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