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The Duma Vote Approaches
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As a crackdown on independent voices continues and the Kremlin-controlled party's popularity wanes, Russians will vote this week in elections to the State Duma, the lower parliament house, and in local balloting across the country. RFE/RL's Moscow correspondent Matthew Luxmoore joins host Steve Gutterman to discuss.