@Carpetsmoker Rule of thumb: anyone conceited enough to be sure they can read other people's minds (which is generally a prerequisite to knowing whether anyone is a troll, without a massive posting trail), shouldn't be trusted with deciding who's a troll and who isn't. Never mind someone who still hasn't grasped a basic SE concept of "vote for the post, not the user".
@yannis I'm not as well networked in Russia as I used to be in the past but there's enough popular support for Putin than I'm skeptical of any Western claims that he only won though election fraud. People are actually not all that opposed to him en massse, if you exclude frondist intellectuals who concentrate in big cities, for a variety of reasons some of which are basic Poly Sci and some Russian cultural specifics
Remember - we are talking about a country where Stalin and Nicholas II are quite popular. One's a mass murdering genocidal dictator who caused at least tens of millions of deaths; and another is a useless noble PoS who broke everything good that was in a country that was just starting to reap the benefits of Industrial age, progress and natural resource abundance by screwing up enough to lead to Bolsheviks being able to take over.
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Ironically, it's often the same people who like both Stalin and Nicholas II, which should tell you something about why "Let's make Russia Great Again Through Muscles" Putin is popular.
@DVK-on-Ahch-To I was talking more about deciding to fix up rant questions or not, and not so much about voting. And yes, I am not a huge fan of labelling people as "troll" either, which is why I quoted it. I just used it because that's the word Denis used.
@yannis I don't tend to read Putin controlled media (as a native speaker it's easy for me to find independent news in russian and from russia) :) But I meant more i terms of random people saying random things. You have no idea how nationalistic Russians are on average and how well Crymea and other foreign adventures play domestically
We have presidency-term, but
It's poor English (writers use presidential term)
It isn't in line with other similar tags (i.e. presidential-election)
