It can be tough work to continue coming up with new ways to fake the democratic process … after a while, the voters seem to wonder “why bother?”  Today, in Sochi, all eyes are on the mayoral election, which has been strongly tilted toward the United Russia candidate once again.  From the Washington Post:

In an interview, Nemtsov compared the tactics being used against him to those of Hitler’s propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels. “Now we have the same here under Putin’s Russia,” he said.

Nemtsov, a Sochi native, said the authorities have detained his campaign workers, seized his leaflets and prevented him from renting facilities for events. Last month, unidentified assailants threw ammonia in his face outside his campaign headquarters; he says they were activists from the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi.