Mayoral recount of Moscow vote handed to dictatorship crony instead of opposition’s Navalny

Putin ally wins tight Moscow poll, Navalny demands recount

AFP – Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Monday warned of protests after narrowly failing to push Moscow’s pro-Kremlin mayor into a run-off in tight elections he claimed were rigged. Incumbent Sergei Sobyanin just crept over the finish line to win. | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles