Putin's Pyrrhic victory
Vladimir Putin is poised to win more than 50% of the vote Sunday and thus be "elected" president of Russia again. That's not surprising: He has barred every pro-democracy opposition leader from running and limited the overwhelming majority of Russian citizens, who get their news mostly from the national television channels, to government propaganda. And after the spectacular and well-documented falsification of the results of the Dec. 4 parliamentary election, no one doubts that the wholly-owned Kremlin subsidiary that is the Central Election Commission will "draw," as they say in Russia, any number that the boss orders.
However, this will be a Pyrrhic victory.… Seguir leyendo »