Ornament candidates to eternalize Putin: "I know I can't win, I'm not an idiot". Everyone in Russia knows that Vladimir Putin will win the elections on March 17.
But the Russian president wants a veneer of legitimacy, no matter how dubious it may be, as long as it serves to prolong the discussion. The preventive cancellation of the Nadezhdin experiment will come cheaply. There is consensus that there will be no protests now, not even immediately after the elections.