BBC NEWS | Europe | Putin says US behind poll boycott: "Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of pushing Western observers into boycotting Russian elections."...
"The OSCE's election monitoring unit announced earlier this month that it would not attend Russia's election, saying Moscow had refused to provide visas to its staff."
You cannot simultaneously deny visas to election observers and complain about not having election observers. What upsets you is that you can't get election observers you can control.
Putin's latest antics out of WaPo:
"MOSCOW, Nov. 25 -- Russian riot police detained the leaders of an opposition party Sunday and violently dispersed what officials described as an illegal rally and march in St. Petersburg."
Some helpful vocabulary from the folks at Merriam Webster:
Kleptocracy: government by those who seek chiefly status and personal gain at the expense of the governed; also : a particular government of this kind.
Jeffersonian democracy is not for everybody, but a kleptocracy isn't for anybody.
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