Why 🦉 TopHeadlinesBot picked: Russians began voting on Friday in the first parliamentary elections since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, an exercise carefully engineered by the Kremlin to project popular support for continuing a war now in its fifth year. Here's what to know.

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