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"Landslide victory"

Posted by Rob (#1) on March 3, 2008 12:45 CET

Hurray! Medvedev grabbed a landslide victory in Russia!

Mr Medvedev was Mr Putin's endorsed choice as successor and that made his election over weak challengers a foregone conclusion.

Oh, please. What went wrong with the Western press? Lesser evils have been criticised and ridiculed with the greatest of ease. Now, there actually is a fascist superstate (Russia) with a dangerous single-party, lead by nutty dictator-wannabe's (Putin and his proxies).. and we conclude the election results are because of "weak challengers"? Would it have been too hard to mention the challengers were so weak because Putin's party has a media monopoly and political opposition more often than not results in arrests and torture?

Analysts will be looking for signals of changes in Kremlin policy under Mr Medvedev, whose rhetoric has presented a more democratic, Western-leaning face to the world than Mr Putin.

We'll see about that. For the time being, I trust North Korea and Iran more than I do Russia.

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