“Voters across Russia cast ballots Saturday on the second day of an election set to formalize six more years of power for President Vladimir Putin, who faces no serious challengers after crushing political dissent over his nearly quarter-century of rule,” Politico reports. “The election comes

“The former commanders of Brazil’s Army and Air Force told police investigators that President Jair Bolsonaro summoned them twice to meetings to discuss a possible coup d’état after his election defeat in 2022,” Reuters reports. “Their accounts place Bolsonaro at the center of a plot to declare

“Rishi Sunak thinks he has the makings of a plan to stave off a Conservative Party wipe-out in the upcoming UK election: another tax-cutting budget in September, with voters going to the polls in October or November. Having the chance to put it into action may be easier said than done,” Bloomberg

“Vladimir Putin is on course to win his fifth term as Russia’s president in an election that started on March 15, extending his quarter-century rule and keeping him in power until at least 2030,” Bloomberg reports. “Already Russia’s longest-serving Kremlin leader since Soviet dictator Joseph

Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, called for the rejection of results for the upcoming elections in her home country. Wrote Navalnaya, in the Washington Post: “I’m not promising that refusing to recognize the results of the Russian presidential