Pro-Kremlin officials have cancelled mayoral elections in Russia's fourth-largest city Yekaterinburg, where the country's only independent mayor, a critic of Vladimir Putin, would have been up for re-election in September. • r/worldnews

Russia once again slips into tyrannical Midnight. Why does it do this stuff to itself? Its history seems to be endlessly sad.

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