Noise #140: Voting at gunpoint... and a cat

As democracy is perverted, life and cuteness go in.

Russia’s election is over, and I don’t think anyone is surprised by the result.

Portions of the election took on a darkly farcical nature, with residents of occupied Ukraine being forced at gunpoint to vote.

Reading The Washington Post’s coverage, I was struck not just by the stories of dictatorship snickering within democracy’s stolen skin—but by the ph…