00:00Vladimir Putin's United Russia Party has won a record supermajority in Parliament following a tightly controlled three-day election without
00:07the participation of parties critical of the Kremlin or the war in Ukraine.
00:11Preliminary results showed United Russia taking 355 of the state Duma's 450 seats, beating its previous record of 343.
00:21The result gives Putin's party an increased supermajority and the numbers needed to make constitutional changes without support from other
00:28parties.
00:29The Kremlin said the vote showed Russians were united around their president.
00:34But the only party calling for an end to the war, Yabloko, was barred from running for the federal parliament,
00:41while Putin's main political opponents are either in prison, in exile, or dead.
00:47Turnout was reported at more than 59%.
00:50The vote took place amid fears that another military mobilization could follow the election, which Putin has denied.
00:5749 veterans of Russia's war in Ukraine are expected to enter parliament for United Russia.
01:03The EU's top diplomat Kayakallas dismissed the vote as a so-called election, accusing the Kremlin of silencing dissent.
01:10The EU's tastes anyway were on a national peppers on a nickname that they heard down the wait.
01:12The EU's top diplomat angry at the escalation of Israel that shared juicingorp HA WSB-
01:14Ukraine was reported on the disclosure of the Western Union for Israel.
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