Russia’s preliminary 2026 Duma results show nearly twice as many precincts with suspiciously round numbers as in 2021. The “comet tail” of high-turnout precincts favoring United Russia swelled into a multi-cluster “body,” while the central cluster thinned sharply. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/09/25/proof-that-russia-s-2026-state-duma-elections-were-the-dirtiest-parliamentary-elections-of-the-putin-era