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| Anti-Putin opposition elected in Russian online poll | Anti-Putin opposition elected in Russian online poll |
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| Voters opposed to Russia's President Vladimir Putin have chosen a new opposition leadership to fight for election reform. | Voters opposed to Russia's President Vladimir Putin have chosen a new opposition leadership to fight for election reform. |
| Popular anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny won the most votes in the three-day online poll. | Popular anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny won the most votes in the three-day online poll. |
| Some 81,801 voters took part in the internet poll, electoral committee head Leonid Volkov said. | Some 81,801 voters took part in the internet poll, electoral committee head Leonid Volkov said. |
| A total of 45 seats on the Coordinating Committee for the anti-Putin foes were contested by more than 200 candidates. | A total of 45 seats on the Coordinating Committee for the anti-Putin foes were contested by more than 200 candidates. |
| Mr Navalny said the poll would clarify "which people, which methods and which ideology have the most support". | Mr Navalny said the poll would clarify "which people, which methods and which ideology have the most support". |
| Novelist and columnist Dmitry Bykov came second in the vote, ahead of opposition leader and former chess champion Garry Kasparov. | |
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| Another key winner was TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak, while the leader of the Left Front movement Sergei Udaltsov and a former vice-premier under Boris Yeltsin, Boris Nemtsov, were also selected. | |
| The electorate is only a tiny fraction of Russia's voters. | The electorate is only a tiny fraction of Russia's voters. |
| However, the opposition hopes the poll will reinvigorate a movement that staged large-scale protests last winter, posing a serious challenge to Mr Putin. | However, the opposition hopes the poll will reinvigorate a movement that staged large-scale protests last winter, posing a serious challenge to Mr Putin. |
| While the Russian authorities are largely ignoring the ballot, attacks on candidates in the pro-Putin media and apparent cyber strikes on the ballot's website - which could not be accessed at times on Saturday morning - suggested that Kremlin supporters were not indifferent. | While the Russian authorities are largely ignoring the ballot, attacks on candidates in the pro-Putin media and apparent cyber strikes on the ballot's website - which could not be accessed at times on Saturday morning - suggested that Kremlin supporters were not indifferent. |