Vladimir Putin has won re-election in a landslide.
Shocking, huh? Who’d have thought a guy who routinely has his opposition imprisoned and/or killed (a lot of people in Russia seem to “fall
out of windows”) would so handily win a fifth term as president?
No one who knows anything about how craven and bloodthirsty
Putin is expected anything different. This election was decided before the
polls even opened, and everyone knew this. Even the media has been calling this
out for what it is: a sham.
Even American news media, which is horrifically corporatized and polarized, has been mostly unified in clearly stating that this election was pure theatrics. I’ve actually been rather surprised by just how pointed some of the news coverage has been; many outlets have moved beyond simply quoting the opposition and are now clearly stating that Putin staged his re-election.
