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How a Few Thousand Votes Could Have Halted Putin's Rise to Power in Russia

The fate of modern Russia was sealed 30 years ago when the defeat of then-St. Petersburg mayor Anatoly Sobchak in the May-June 1996 elections fueled Vladimir Putin's ascent to power in Moscow, with only a few thousand votes potentially altering the outcome.

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