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President-Elect of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev

By Joseph B. Varner

So the Russians have elected Vladimir Putin’s hand-picked successor, Dimitri Anatolyevich Medvedev, as President. Is anyone really surprised? Although there may not have been any voter fraud to speak of, there is little question that the process itself was rigged. The whole campaign was carefully staged to give Medvedev such an enormous advantage that his defeat was virtually impossible.