Reuters
By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and Tom Balmforth MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russians voted on Sunday in the final stretch of a three-day parliamentary election that the ruling party is expected to win emphatically after a crackdown that crushed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s movement and barred opponents from the ballot. The expected win by the ruling United Russia party is likely to be used by the Kremlin as proof of support for Vladimir Putin, who has been in power as either president or prime minister since 1999. Allies of Navalny, who is serving a jail sentence for parole violations he denies, are e…