INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
amid plunging public approval and growing social tensions
will take place in Bashkortostan, where incumbent Radiy Khabirov is standing for reelection nine months after his region witnessed some of
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?Never miss the latest news from Russia. PreviewBashkortostan head Radiy Khabirov during a meeting with schoolchildren.glavarb.ruUnlike
Turchak, Khabirov is a native Bashkir born and raised in the republic whose political career started in the office of its first president,
support for Alysnov and the arrested protesters, Khabirov chose to stage a rally in his own support
corruption.Bashkortostan has suffered the highest death toll in the war in Ukraine of any Russian region, according to a tally maintained by
Kalmykia, a southern republic with a more than 60% Indigenous population, is also running for re-election with little popular
region's Ketchenerovsky district.glava.region08.ruBut the Kremlin ignored local elites and Khasikov will stand for reelection virtually
No one even really talks about them, there is no campaigning
Everything is being done to ensure that no one goes to vote
The fact of visiting a polling station is our vote
