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MOSCOW — United Russia, the governing party of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, suffered surprisingly steep losses in parliamentary elections Sunday and was barely clinging to a 50 percent majority, with nearly three- quarters of the votes counted.
The three minority parties that hold seats in Parliament — the Communist Party, the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party and Just Russia, a social democratic party — all made strong gains, meaning that United Russia would have little choice but to forge a working relationship with at least some segment of the newly empowered opposition.
