Robert Amsterdam is briefly quoted in the election coverage by Canada’s CTV:

Russia’s election outcome hardly in doubt Josh Visser, CTV.ca News The votes in the Russian presidential election this Sunday have yet to be tallied, but it’s a straight-up guarantee that Dmitry Medvedev is the nation’s next president. To many outside Russia, a pre-determined election seems like the antithesis to the wave of democracy that was supposed to flow over the former Soviet Union. But like Russia itself, the issue at stake is large and diverse, muddled and mysterious and just plain bewildering to the casual observer.