What's this "In Soviet Russia" thing? I don't get it although I have seen it several times. Please enlighten me!

Anyway, I read in the paper today about a woman who was an "international election monitor" in Rostov on Donu.
She said she had been monitoring elections in Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belarus as well, and that the Russian elections were the worst she had seen - really corrupt. Unfortunately she did not explain why she thought so, it was quite a short article in a lightweight newspaper.

Sad to hear it anyway....

The thing that I think is the most upsetting in Russia is that the government is "in bed" with big business and that they are taking Russian capital and assets out of the country where they no longer benefit regular people. Corruption is disgusting. I wouldn't worry about democracy if Putin was actually fixing the country for it's citizens, but it seems he's fixing it only for big business and educated people in the large cities. That's not good enough, I think.

Interesting that KPRF is the biggest party on MasterRussian. It would be interesting to hear the motivation for voting for them, other than pure ideology (surely in todays world, ideology is almost dead....?)