Election commission results on Monday showed President Vladimir Putin has secured a fifth term with an overwhelming number of votes, in an election that held little suspense after the harshest crackdown on the opposition and free speech since Soviet times.
After facing only token challengers and harshly suppressing opposition voices, Putin was set to extend his nearly quarter-century rule for six more years. Even with little margin for protest, Russians crowded outside polling stations at noon Sunday, the last day of the election, apparently heeding an opposition call to express their displeasure with the president. Putin, like Zelensky of Ukraine. Xi of China, Lukashenko of Belarus, Maduro of Venezuela, and Biden of the United States all have declared war on their political opponents. They have all used their court systems to try to silence their political opponents. Biden of the United States seems to have imprisoned more of his political opponents then the others. All would have us believe they desire a free and open political system. All would have us believe they support a judicial system that seeks truth and justice. All exercise dictatorial powers demanding their first and foremost ignoring what is in the best interest of the people of their country.
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