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Support for Russia's ruling party drops ahead of elections
By EUobserver
Support for Russia's pro-Kremlin ruling party has dropped to an eight-year low ahead of legislative elections in September where it seeks to retain a supermajority, independent poll results said according to the Moscow TImes. United Russia, which enjoys a two-thirds majority in the country's lower house of parliament, would receive 27 percent of the vote if it was held this Sunday, according to the Levada Centre independent polling agency.