Russian authorities are taking steps to hinder voting by its citizens living abroad in the upcoming presidential election, in what some observers call a move to restrict votes cast by anti-war emigres. Those hoping to vote from outside the country will face a reduction in polling places and no option to vote online — while political dissidents run the risk of interrogation or detention by entering Russian embassies to vote. “They are generally pushing away those who left Russia,” Artyom Waschenkow, a Russian elections expert based in Germany, told The Moscow Times. Up to 11 million Russians li…