Umn, like the Bush administration didn't go in the same direction after 911? Hell, Bush wasn't elected by popular vote BEFORE 911.

] Among Putin's reforms announced Monday: the country's 89
] regional governors will no longer be elected by popular
] vote. Instead, he will appoint them and regional
] assemblies would approve the appointments.
]
] He also announced on Monday that seats in the Duma
] (Russia's national parliament) allocated to single-member
] constituencies will be replaced with a fully proportional
] system. The move "could see the few remaining independent
] voices forced out of the federal parliament"

Puntin uses school attacks to cripple democracy in Russia.