Most of the complaints about Russian elections are due to them being rather severely rigged. Like, election officials getting caught on camera stuffing ballot b

Most of the complaints about Russian elections are due to them being rather severely rigged. Like, election officials getting caught on camera stuffing ballot boxes, regions with more votes than ballots, that kind of thing. At this point Russia seems to be the standard test used in papers about statistical methods for voter fraud detection. And that's not even getting into what happened to all the independent media and anyone who challenges the political status quo.