Putin may be the biggest dupe of his fake election landslide
With official results showing he won nine out of 10 votes, has the Russian autocrat overplayed his hand?
BY EVA HARTOG
“The most important outcome of any Russian election is legitimacy,” Vladimir Putin told Russia’s top election officials when they gathered at his residence outside Moscow in November. “That is the foundation of political stability.”
On Sunday, after three days of voting, those same officials declared a landslide victory for the president.