You know how pretty much everyone is convinced that the #Russian electoral and parliamentary system is #fake, right. Well, duh. But there are two important points. First, if it's fake, and #Putin is running a "turbo-giga-hyper-dictatorship", why bother spending billions on fake elections and political parties? Before 2022, and especially before 2014, the liberal answer would have been: "umm they're just trying to deceive the West". But now, as the most sanctioned country on Earth