• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    5 个月前

    I’m not sure where you got that from, but no, Putin won three* free and fair elections, one as PM and two as president.

    *My memory is iffy so it could be that his reelection as president wasn’t a fair election, but the preceding two were.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      5 个月前

      one as PM and two as president

      The reason he flipped between PM and president was that the Russian constitution prohibited consecutive terms in either position, so he alternated with his peg-boy Medvedev while remaining the real supreme power.