Russian Pres Election 2012

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Of course what makes these elections a joke isn't just the fact that there's clearly been widespread poll rigging.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Of course what makes these elections a joke isn't just the fact that there's clearly been widespread poll rigging.

Probably - not in Moscow (where i reside) or St. Petersburgh - results are plausibly there too. But in autonomous regions (especially North Caucasus) and remote areas - of course...

Well, quite. What I was also getting at was that in proper free-and-fair elections the range of non-Putin candidates might be somewhat more appealing, to say nothing of the media and so on.