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Tue 03 Mar 2010Putin's United Russia party suffers sharp dip in support
MOSCOW – Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin’s ruling party suffered sharp falls in its vote in regional elections amid discontent at Russia’s worst economic crisis in a decade, results released yesterday showed.
United Russia still won all eight regions comfortably. But its share of the vote fell in seven of them by between 6 and 25 percentage points, compared with the 2007 national parliamentary election. In the Siberian city of Irkutsk, it lost control of the mayor’s office to the Communists.
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