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		geoka9 on July 1, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Putin Says Snowden Must Stop Hurting U.S. to Stay ... > They must in order to maintain sovereignty. There's no way for Russia to be sovereign without being authoritarian?

anonymfus on July 1, 2013 [–]

This is just piece of Putin's propaganda:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_democracy

Core idea is that because population is monolithic then there is no need for fair elections because result is known and constant.

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