Economics
Putin Heartland Appeal Trumps Moscow Protests as Vote Nears
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Vyacheslav Ananiev, co-owner of a software company in Novosibirsk in the middle of Russia, says there’s only one option for him in next week’s presidential election: Vladimir Putin.
Although he didn’t vote for the prime minister’s United Russia party in legislative elections last December and sympathizes with the tens of thousands of Moscow protesters who say the process was rigged, he plans to back Putin on March 4.