Russian presidential election opens this Friday. The first and probably only round will end on Sunday.
The Luzhniki stadium in Moscow is due to welcome a triumphant master of the Kremlin. In 2018, the former lieutenant-colonel of the KGB, the Soviet secret service, gathered 76.69% of the votes.. Authoritarian regimes do not respond to any electoral marketing, says Bertrand Badie, specialist in international relations. Dictators seek above all to legitimize themselves.