It will be very interesting to see what the actual numbers are in this referendum. Given all the safeguards to protect abuses at the polling stations, it is very unlikely there will be hanky panky. But calls for a boycott of the vote by the many thinking Russians who reject the perpetual presidency of Putin could dope the outcome. We shall see shortly.
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