Evidence that the Canadian government *stole* its majority in the last election. Yes, *stole* it.

Vlad wins by 1,482 to 1, of 1,389 registered voters.

I quite like the idea of skills tests for presidential candidates. (Though in this case, of course, it is a proxy for acceptability to the Russians.)

"Members of the new federal parliament, expected to come into effect by June 2012, will be nominated by recognised traditional elders assisted by qualified civil society members, none of whom have any political aspirations." So that's all right then.

Statistical analysis of Duma election results shows how artificial United Russia's success was.

5% threshold struck down. From @LWvdLaan.