Russia’s opposition leaders were barred from contesting Moscow’s city elections, but a protest vote strategy pushed Putin’s supporters to the wire Sunday
MOSCOW—Candidates backed by Russia’s opposition won nearly half the seats up for grabs in Moscow’s city elections Sunday, building on a wave of protests this summer that exposed some of the frailties in President Vladimir Putin’s closely controlled political machine, but failed to make significant inroads in local races elsewhere in the country.
Although antigovernment candidates fell short of taking control of the city Duma, the results suggest opposition leader Alexei Navalny had succeeded in building a coherent threat to...
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