And finally… the grey vote
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A controversial Russian academic has proposed giving the vote to Russia’s war dead to allow their continued participation in politics.
Alexander Ageyev, director of the influential Institute for Economic Strategies, suggested that the descendants of around 14 million Russians killed during World War II could cast votes for them.
He said it would allow those who “were directly involved in the country’s salvation” to “influence the development of the country”.
Ageyev told a major conference hosted by the Orthodox Church that the idea has to be “worth considering”.
His remarks were widely reported in the Russian press.
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