In a country where the architecture of choice has been quietly dismantled, Vladimir Putin's United Russia party has claimed a record supermajority in Russia's first parliamentary election since the invasion of Ukraine — a result that tells us less about what Russians want than about what they are permitted to want. Held across three days and extended into four annexed Ukrainian territories, the vote produced a Duma overwhelmingly aligned with the Kremlin, while the sole registered anti-war party was removed from ballots and international monitors were turned away at the door. The numbers will