The head of Russia’s elections called serious allegations of voter fraud and ballot box stuffing in recent Parliamentary elections “a fairy tale”. I don’t know that fairy tale. Is that a Grimm’s fairy tale? (It might be a grim fairy tale.) Let me see if I can figure out the story. It seems like a weasel is trying to help a big angry bear win re-election. Does that sound right so far? And then, when anyone criticizes the bear, the weasel and the bear’s fox henchmen go cast spells on them, silencing them or making them disappear. And come election day, the ballot boxes become magically stuffed with unanimous votes for the bear, right? And then everyone is amazed, because they all voted for another animal, but their votes didn’t seem to get counted. Is that the fairy tale he’s talking about? Because that’s actually not all that new. I think it might even have originated here in America. (They should come up with their own fairy tales! If America is so bad, then how come they’re cribbing our fairy tales?)
