Joshua Keating of FP Passport is amused by the recent leak of the video showing Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Andrei Bogdanov’s campaign manager getting into some on-air fisticuffs which erupted during a debate. Keating remarks that “Of course, with an opposition consisting of three mediocre candidates embroiled in lawsuits and shoving matches, Putin’s managed election seems to be proceeding exactly according to script.”