Can you say rigged?

What a complete joke. The Russians are starting to scare me...check that...they continue to scare me. I heard one theory that the Russian people put up with the political corruption because they actually like the idea of having a strong ruler with near absolute power. If that's true, are we in for another Cold War? Who will be on Russia's side on this one now that Communism is (for all intents and purposes) dead?