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Russia's Kremlin-made spoiler party is now its second most popular

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19 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“New People... has doubled its support to 13.4%”
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The TASS cross-reference provides data for other parties (United Russia, Communist Party, LDPR) but does not explicitly mention the 13.4% figure for New People in the provided snippet. Other web results are generic definitions of politics.
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web search NEUTRAL — A political system is a framework which defines acceptable political methods within a society. The history of political thought can be traced back to early antiquity, with seminal works such as Plato …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics
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web search NEUTRAL — Playbook’s Dasha Burns shares highlights from her one-on-one interview with James Blair, the head of the Republican midterm strategy, for a look at how the White House sees the road to November....
https://www.politico.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Read breaking political news today from The Associated Press. Get the updates from AP News so you won't miss the latest in US political news.
https://apnews.com/politics
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“New People now commands 13.4% support according to VTsIOM, Russia's state-backed polling centre — double the 6.6% it recorded a year ago.”
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While Wikipedia confirms VTsIOM is a state-owned polling institution, the specific data points (6.6% to 13.4%) are not corroborated by the provided search results.
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web search NEUTRAL — ВЦИОМ, VCIOM) is a state-owned[1] polling institution established in 1987, known as the All-Union Center for the Study of Public Opinion until 1992.[2]. VCIOM is the oldest polling institution in post…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Public_Opinion_Researc…
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web search NEUTRAL — deliberately over regulates the entry of people.
https://nationalpost.com/category/news/
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web search NEUTRAL — The VTsIOM polling organization, based in Moscow, has been conducting daily telephone polling of national samples since 2017.
https://johnhelmer.net/russian-opinion-polls-show-support-fo…
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“The conservative Communist Party trails at 10.9% and the Liberal Democratic Party... at 10.1%.”
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The TASS cross-reference explicitly confirms the Communist Party at 10.9% and the Liberal Democratic Party at 10.1%.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Democratic Party initially supported Jacksonian democracy, agrarianism, and geographical expansionism, while opposing a national bank and high tariffs. Democrats won six of the eight presidential …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_State…
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web search NEUTRAL — They also support the legalisation of cannabis. The Liberal Democrats previously strongly opposed Britain’s exit from the European Union, and have argued for increased international cooperation and a …
https://www.politics.co.uk/reference/liberal-democrats/
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web search NEUTRAL — Out of LDP supporters eligible to vote in the presidential election, Koizumi came out on top with 27.9 percent, followed by Takaichi with 21.4 percent and Ishiba with 19.7 percent, the poll said, arou…
https://kpl.gov.la/EN/detail.aspx?id=85858
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“the gap between New People and the old systemic opposition parties has reached 2.5 percentage points.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of generic Wikipedia entries on the party or unrelated news about other countries' elections. No specific polling gap of 2.5% is confirmed in the evidence.
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web search NEUTRAL — The opposition party is losing badly.Emerson and Quinnipiac showed him ahead of Trump by one and four points respectively. Result? Trump carried the state by more than 8 per cent points. So, NYT got i…
https://swarajyamag.com/politics/trump-was-right-the-mainstr…
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web search NEUTRAL — New People is considered a liberal party, and observers also often refer to it as centrist[8] or centre-right.[5]. The party opposes many policies of the incumbent United Russia government, although i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_People_(political_party)
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web search NEUTRAL — Counting has begun in Ireland's election, after an exit poll showed the three main parties virtually neck and neck. Counting started at 9am this morning with the first results expected this afternoon …
https://news.sky.com/story/sinn-fein-and-fine-gael-neck-and-…
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“Support for United Russia... has fallen from 36% to 27.7% since April 2024.”
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The TASS cross-reference explicitly confirms United Russia's support at 27.7%.
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web search NEUTRAL — As of 2020[update], six parties have members in the federal parliament, the State Duma, with one dominant party (United Russia). As of July 2023[update], 27 political parties[1] are officially registe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_R…
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web search NEUTRAL — United Russia is unflinching in its support of the Kremlin, and of Mr Putin personally. Russia's prime minister has accepted the party's nomination to run for president next year, while the current pr…
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-15939801
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web search NEUTRAL — A 29-year-old is the new face of Russia’s grassroots opposition. Here's how he plans to fight authoritarianism from the inside. Veter ProjectMay 7, 2026 at 16:21.
https://novayagazeta.eu/en/articles/2026/05/07/theres-simply…
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“Putin's own approval rating stood at 65.6% in data published on 24 April”
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The provided evidence shows various approval ratings (89%, 80%, 71%) but none specifically confirm a 65.6% rating for April 24.
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web search NEUTRAL — Putin's approval rating climbed to 89%, an all-time high.[24][25][26] In 2016, the approval rating was 81%.[27]. Despite high approval for Putin, confidence in the Russian economy is low, dropping to …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_image_of_Vladimir_Putin
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web search NEUTRAL — Vladimir Putin's approval rating in Russia monthly 2000-2026. Published by Statista Research Department, Apr 30, 2026. In March 2026, 80 percent of Russians approved of the activities of Russian Presi…
https://www.statista.com/statistics/896181/putin-approval-ra…
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web search NEUTRAL — The dictator's approval rating fell to 71% amid restrictions on the messenger's operation. Discontent is growing among military bloggers and small businesses in Russia.In Russia, for the first time si…
https://unn.ua/en/news/putins-approval-rating-among-russians…
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“Facebook and Instagram were blocked in spring 2022.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that Facebook and Instagram were blocked in Russia in early 2022 (specifically March) due to the 'extremist' label on Meta.
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web search NEUTRAL — A Russian court has banned Facebook and Instagram in the country, labelling its parent company Meta as "extremist" amid the Kremlin's sweeping crackdown on western social media giants.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/21/russia-bans-fa…
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web search NEUTRAL — The head of Instagram has said the block will affect 80 million users. Russia has already banned Facebook in the country in response to what it said were restrictions of access to Russian media on the…
https://www.bworldonline.com/world/2022/03/14/435702/instagr…
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web search NEUTRAL — On March 11, the Prosecutor General's Office ordered that Instagram be blocked, and the request was granted. It was said by Roskomnadzor that access was being blocked "due to the proliferation of appe…
https://europeans24.com/2022/03/instagram-was-blocked-in-rus…
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“YouTube was throttled in August 2024.”
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Wikipedia and multiple news sources confirm that YouTube throttling began in July/August 2024.
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web search NEUTRAL — 8, 2024 at 8:08 p.m. Russia’s media regulator Roskomnadzor has throttled use of YouTube online across the country since early August.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/sep/08/russia-throttl…
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web search NEUTRAL — The process of targeted limiting of access speed to the video hosting service YouTube within the territory of Russia began in July 2024. It was initiated by the Russian government as a pressure measur…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_YouTube_in_Russia
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web search NEUTRAL — In May 2024, YouTube blocked four videos after a request from Roskomnadzor claiming violation of Russia’s law on information. According to Russian investigative outlet Agenstvo, the videos included in…
https://dfrlab.org/2025/01/31/how-russia-throttled-youtube-f…
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“By March, WhatsApp and Telegram... had become almost entirely inaccessible.”
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“According to 2024 data from Mediascope, Telegram reached 74% of Russians aged 12 and over every month”
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“mobile internet disappeared from central Moscow for three weeks [in March].”
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“The newspaper Kommersant reported the city's economy lost between 3 billion and 5 billion rubles (€35 million and €60 million) in the first five days alone.”
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“Deputy Duma speaker and former presidential candidate Vladislav Davankov launched a petition against Telegram restrictions that gathered more than 1 million signatures”
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“The nominally centrist New People party was founded on 1 March 2020”
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“In the 2021 parliamentary elections, the party won 5.32% of the vote and 13 Duma seats”
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“The party's founder, Nechaev, is an entrepreneur and the owner of the Faberlic cosmetics company.”
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“Vedomosti reported that Davankov helped draft legislation banning gender transition procedures.”
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“In spring 2022... New People voted in favour of criminal penalties for spreading "fake news" about the Russian army.”
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“internet controls are now overseen by the FSB's Second Service”
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