Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Ukraine war: Russian-held elections seek to normalise illegal occupation and reveal reality of a long war ahead

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par Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
Tetyana Malyarenko, Professor of International Relations, Jean Monnet Professor of European Security, National University Odesa Law Academy

Russia has recently held local elections, including – for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine last February – counting votes in the four territories annexed to Russia after a series of illegal and illegitimate referendums last September. The outcome of these elections – that is, another “triumph” for the Putin regime – was never in doubt.

But the way in which they were conducted – with hundreds…

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