Germany called it a pseudo election while the United States claimed it was "obviously not free nor fair".
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But - despite some protests during the vote itself - today Moscow's Red Square was filled with those celebrating the re-election of Vladimir Putin.
It came as no surprise that he won a landslide.
But with no opposition at home and Tsarist ambitions abroad, just what might his fifth term look like?
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