Political corruption has become so endemic in Russia that elections there are every bit the pro-forma farce they are in unbridled dictatorships like North Korea and Zimbabwe. This is why the only uncertainty about the outcome of yesterday’s presidential election was over what percentage of the vote Vladimir Putin instructed his apparatchiks to assign to his… Read more.
Russia: The Restoration of Vladimir Putin
Monday, March 5, 2012 at 5:15 AM