TODAY: landslide victory declared for United candidate in Sochi; Nemtsov to contest in court; issues on Georgia war games remain; ex-Yukos lawyer freed

United Russia candidate Anatoly Pakhomov has been declared the official winner of the Sochi election with 76.8% of the vote.  Opposition candidate Boris Nemtsov has stated that workers were forced to vote by absentee ballot for the United Russia candidate or lose their jobs. The Putin critic has apparently pledged to contest the election result in court, and will go so far as the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, says the Financial Times.