Russians will be heading to the polls for parliamentary elections this weekend, and perhaps unsurprisingly Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party is leading as the war in Ukraine continues.
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So is there still a political pulse in a nation where Putin rules supreme and parties that oppose the war are banned?
Voters will go to the polls over three days to elect a new State Duma in the first parliamentary elections since Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine.
The only anti-war party has been banned, while candidates deemed to have "undesirable" opinions have been disqualified or jailed.
This is a rare journey through Moscow, where we discover what campaigning looks like in an election where everyone already knows who the winner will be.
Producer: Millicent Teasdale
Editor: Kristy Jane Breetzke
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0:00 – Inside Moscow
1:30 – Political debate without Putin’s party
3:17 – Winning over older voters
4:58 – Using music to stay out of war
7:00 – Why do young Russians stay engaged?
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