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Putin's peaks: Russian election data revisited

Applications 2019-02-18 v1

Abstract

We study the anomalous prevalence of integer percentages in the last parliamentary (2016) and presidential (2018) Russian elections. We show how this anomaly in Russian federal elections has evolved since 2000.

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@article{arxiv.1804.09495,
  title  = {Putin's peaks: Russian election data revisited},
  author = {Dmitry Kobak and Sergey Shpilkin and Maxim S. Pshenichnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.09495},
  year   = {2019}
}

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To appear in Significance magazine

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