Election aftermath

It seems to me that the Moscow mayoral election last Sunday ended in slightly less than 50% of the vote to the incumbent, Sergey Sobyanin, but the Kremlin is not in the mood for a recount while the opposition isn’t going to push too far demanding it.

Yesterday’s gathering in support of Navalny in the Bolotnaya square was unusually large, especially on such a short notice. Possibly 40-50 thousand people.

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