Russia election 2012

Features and Analysis

• Fit for a tsar

  Mystery palace on Black Sea may be intended for Putin

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• Searching for 'carousel' voters

  The BBC's Maria Vassilieva looks for signs of electoral fraud.

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• Protests in pictures

  Images of protests for and against Vladimir Putin

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• What next for Russia?

  Bridget Kendall considers Vladimir Putin's third term

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• Russian media praise Putin win

  TV and newspapers welcome the result unlike bloggers

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• Getting Moscow's goat

  How a minor US blog site became a hotbed of dissent

• Rosenberg's Russia

  Putin years blighted by organised crime

• In pictures: Russia votes

  Images from across Russia on election day

• Chill of corruption

  Siberia dirty tricks fuel anti-Moscow backlash