How Vladimir Putin plans to win next year’s Russian presidential polls

The Kremlin is rallying support for Putin’s election campaign by portraying him as the defender of traditional Russian values against the ‘liberal’ West. This includes harsher persecution of LGBT people, calls for restrictions on abortion, and efforts to boost patriotic education in schools. The campaign will also highlight new schools and hospitals to show social conditions are improving. Putin’s certain victory in the election will be presented as a public endorsement of his invasion of Ukraine.