Bitches bitch'n'

Transparency in democracy

election results showing 87.56% for Putin Reuters
First among unequals. Really, it's enough to make one wonder why his opponents even bothered. (rolleyes)

After his landslide victory to claim a fifth term as president of the Russian Federation, with a stunning 87+% of the vote, Vladimir Putin declared that Russia's democracy was more transparent than many in the West.

And he's not wrong. No one was in any doubt of the outcome, since the election was so transparently rigged.