MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ninety years on from the Bolshevik revolution, Russia's Communist party will present the Kremlin with its strongest opposition challenge in Sunday's parliamentary election.
But it is a mark of the weakness of Russia's opposition that the Communists -- direct heirs to the party of Lenin and Stalin -- will at best win a quarter of the votes picked up by President Vladimir Putin's dominant United Russia party.
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