Vladimir Putin’s sham election
On March 17 there will be an event in Russia which out of habit we will call an election. But of course, there are no elections there anymore. Instead, this is the reappointment of Vladimir Putin to the highest position in the largest country in the world.
In 2003, when Putin was still a young president, I was a student at the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University. This was my first parliamentary election. I remember making my way to participate in the voting through the snowdrifts of winter Moscow, freezing.
But it made sense — I was going to give my vote to the liberal Union of Right Forces (URF) party, one of the leaders of which was Boris Nemtsov.… Seguir leyendo »
