A grim year : Meduza’s Andrey Pertsev sums up the key developments in Russia’s domestic politics in 2021

The year 2020 saw the death of public politics in Russia. To accommodate a plebiscite on amending the constitution, the authorities introduced a three-day voting period (leaving ballots unsupervised at polling stations overnight), as well as "mobile polling stations" (giving rise to the infamous "stump" voting). The official result was 67 percent turnout, with 78 percent of voters supporting the constitutional changes. Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/01/10/a-grim-year