Presidential Election in Russia
15| March| 2024

Russian voters went to polls from 15 to 17 March to (re)elect their president, Vladimir Putin, who was running for a fifth term, 24 years after he first came to power. These elections are seen as a way of reinforcing Putin's control of the country and support for the war in Ukraine, since there warno opposition candidates (they have died, are in exile or were unable to stand) and the remaining 3 candidates were supporters of the President.

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Resources

Russia's 2024 presidential election: What is at stake and what is not [13/03/2024]
Anna Caprile, European Parliamentary Research Service

Russia presidential election 2024: Dates, candidate and how it works [11/03/2024]
Reuters

Opinions & Analysis
Russians who oppose Putin can do little but change the atmosphere of the presidential election [15/03/2024]
Yulia Mineeva, Chatham House

Expert Survey: Does Russia’s Presidential Election Matter to US and Its Allies? [15/03/2024]
AA.VV., RM

Putin’s Staged Election Belies Resistance — Russian Court Data Tells the Real Story [15/03/2024]
Roman Badanin, Just Security

Putin will win Russia’s election, but what comes next? [14/03/2024]
Joshua Tucker, Good Authority

Eroding Consolidation: Putin’s Regime Ahead of the 2024 “Election” [14/03/2024]
Andrei Kolesnikov, Carnegie Politika

All the autocrat’s men: The court politics of Putin’s inner circle [14/03/2024]
Mikhail Zygar, Atlantic Council

Putinism allows no rivals. What about an heir? [14/03/2024]
Adam Taylor, Washington Post

What’s the Kremlin Scared Of? Pro-War Ultranationalists [14/03/2024]
Lucy Birge, Moscow Times

Forever Putinism: The Russian Autocrat’s Answer to the Problem of Succession [13/03/2024]
Michael Kimmage & Maria Lipman, Foreign Affairs

Putin has no successor, no living rivals and no retirement plan – why his eventual death will set off a vicious power struggle [13/03/2024]
Robert Person, The Conversation

Putin’s “Re-election”: An Undemocratic, Authoritarian Plebiscite [13/03/2024]
Sabine Fischer, SWP

Russian Election Rigging: A Portrait in Terror [13/03/2024]
Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan, CEPA

Russian elections: despite fixing the opposition, Vladimir Putin wants lots of people to vote for him [13/03/2024]
Natasha Lindstaedt, The Conversation

What to watch in Russia’s stage-managed presidential ‘election’ [13/03/2024]
Benton Coblentz, Atlantic Council

How the authorities allure Russians to the election to increase the turnout [03/2024]
REM

Vladimir Putin’s sham election [12/03/2024]
Ekaterina Kotrikadze, CNN

3 things to watch for in Russia’s presidential election – other than Putin’s win, that is [12/03/2024]
Adam Lenton, The Conversation

Presidential pseudo-election in Russia: what does it tell us about Putin’s regime? [12/03/2024]
Maria Domańska, New Eastern Europe

Ukraine War Takes a Toll on Russia [11/03/2024]
Mary Glantz, USIP

Why Russia’s Election Matters to Putin [07/03/2024]
Thomas Graham, CFR

Boiling Under the Lid: Protest Potential Ahead of Russia’s 2024 Presidential Election [06/03/2024]
ACLED

Should we pay attention to Russian elections? [05/03/2024]
Michael Runey, IDEA

Leadership Change in Russia [15/02/2024]
Liana Fix & Maria Snegovaya, CFR

Russian Elections Have a Purpose, But Not Evicting the Regime [14/02/2024]
Ben Dubow, CEPA

Russia’s next election is likely to put Putin in power for longer than anyone since Peter the Great [07/02/2024]
Rod Thornton, The Conversation

What has changed in Russia’s presidential election over six years? [06/02/2024]
Ksenia Smolyakova, Riddle

Putin’s Grand Plan for Russia’s 2024 Elections [29/01/2024]
Callum Fraser, RUSI

Russia’s Managed Democracy Is Facing a Participation Crisis [16/01/2024]
Andrey Pertsev, Carnegie Politika

As Election Looms, Putin Is in a Wartime Trap of His Own Making [15/01/2024]
Tatiana Stanovaya, Carnegie Politika

Controlling the Narrative: A Roadmap to Russia’s 2024 Presidential Election [21/12/2023]
András Tóth-Czifra, FPRI

For Putin, Winning is Not Everything in Russia’s Presidential Election [20/12/2023]
Thomas Graham, Russia Matters

Why we must pay attention to Russia’s election [01/12/2023]
Ben Noble & Nikolai Petrov, The World Today

Russian presidential elections 2024: Is resistance at polls possible? [11/2023]
Margarita Zavadskaya, Russian Election Monitor

What ‘winning’ an election means in Putin’s Russia [28/11/2023]
Henry Campbell, ASPI Strategist

Russia’s Predetermined Elections Are Still Enough to Rattle the Elites [22/11/2023]
Mikhail Vinogradov, Carnegie Politika

Russia’s 2024 Presidential Election: A Critical Inflection Point? [27/01/2023]
Wes Culp, AEIdeas

Editorials
Don’t lose sight of the other Navalnys [13/03/2024]
Washington Post

Russians go to the polls in a sham election for their president [12/03/2024]
The Economist

Russia’s democratic opposition: a resilient spirit that needs help [10/03/2024]
The Guardian

News
Backgrounder: Russia's 8th presidential election [15/03/2024]
Xinhua

How Russians plan to protest against Putin’s re-election [15/03/2024]
Max Seddon & Polina Ivanova, Financial Times

Could Putin lose? Everything you need to know about Russia's presidential election [15/03/2024]
Michael Drummond, Sky News

Putin’s Election Win Is Almost Certain. What Can Anti-Kremlin Russians Do? [14/03/2024]
Moscow Times

Russian election 2024: List of candidates and barred Putin challengers [14/03/2024]
Andrew Osborn, Reuters

‘Do I vote? Hell no’: Russia heads to predictable presidential election [14/03/2024]
Niko Vorobyov, Al Jazeera

Les habitants de l'Extrême-Orient ont commencé à voter pour la présidentielle russe [14/03/2024]
France 24

Putin’s guide to rigging an election: inside the 15 March Guardian Weekly [14/03/2024]
Graham Snowdon, The Guardian

Putin Urges Russians to Vote at 'Difficult' Time for Country [14/03/2024]
Moscow Times

Why does Putin always win? What to know about Russia’s pseudo election. [14/03/2024]
Robyn Dixon, Washington Post

Putin’s Election Win Is Almost Certain. What Can Anti-Kremlin Russians Do? [14/03/2024]
Moscow Times

Présidentielle en Russie : à quoi servent les trois candidats en lice contre Poutine? [14/03/2024]
Grégoire Sauvage, France 24

Russian Election Authorities Pick Pro-War Symbol, Putin’s Favorite Slogan for Presidential Campaign Promo [13/03/2024]
Pyotr Kozlov, Moscow Times

The digital steal: how Putin will get a landslide via online voting [12/03/2024]
Katya Orlova, Andrey Serafimov & Pavel Kuznetsov, EU Observer

Playing The Numbers: Leaked Document Details How The Kremlin Manages Russia's Elections [11/03/2024]
Andrei Grigoryev, RFE

Imprisoned Kara-Murza Says Putin's Rule Based 'Exclusively On Fear And Apathy' [11/03/2024]
RFE

What to know about Russia’s presidential election, set to give Putin another six-year term [10/03/2024]
Katie Marie Davis & Dasha Litvinova, Associated Press

Russia’s opposition and Ukraine find it impossible to unite against Putin [08/03/2024]
Francesca Ebel & Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post

Russia’s presidential election: Putin, power, the possibility of protests [07/03/2024]
Mansur Mirovalev, Al Jazeera

Navalny’s widow calls for Russia election day protests against Putin [06/03/2024]
Al Jazeera

Présidentielle en Russie : qui sont les trois candidats qui se présentent face à Vladimir Poutine? [17/02/2024]
Ouest-France

Vladimir Putin, riding high before Navalny’s death, seems unstoppable [17/02/2024]
Catherine Belton, Washington Post

Kremlin critics: What happens to Putin’s most vocal opponents? [16/02/2024]
Al Jazeera

Russian anti-war candidate Boris Nadezhdin banned from election [08/02/2024]
The Guardian

Russia poised to bar only antiwar candidate from presidential race [05/02/2024]
Robyn Dixon & Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post

Vladimir Putin will use election to show war-weary Russia he’s still calling the shots [03/01/2024]
Pjotr Sauer, The Guardian

Putin aims to leave nothing to chance in Russia’s 2024 election [26/12/2023]
Laura Kelly, The Hill

En Russie, une candidate "pour la paix" veut défier Vladimir Poutine à la présidentielle [20/12/2023]
Euronews

Élections russes: Vladimir Poutine aura-t-il des opposants? [08/12/2023]
Hugo Littow, L’Echo

Après quatre mandats, Vladimir Poutine candidat à la présidentielle de 2024 [08/12/2023]
La Tribune

Russie: l’élection présidentielle se tiendra le 17 mars 2024 [07/12/2023]
Le Monde

Russia’s Next President Will Be ‘Just Like Putin,’ Kremlin Says [17/11/2023]
Moscow Times