Russia: Will Celebrity Candidates Boost Interest In Lackluster Duma Election? – Analysis

By Mike Eckel*

(RFE/RL) -- There’s the gun-rights activist who infiltrated U.S. Republican Party circles and served 15 months in U.S. detention for being an unregistered Russian agent. There’s the well-known nationalist writer who formed a volunteer battalion to fight on the side of Russian-backed militias in eastern...