Nigeria, March 22 -- The United Kingdom (UK) has become the chief mourner, wailing over the presidential election in Russia, which gave President Vladimir Putin a new term.

For a country at war and under all sorts of sanctions, it might have been expected that the Russian election would be postponed indefinitely. But it not only held, there was also a reported voter turn-out of 74.22 per cent.

The British media reported that: "Reuters journalists saw an increase in the flow of voters, especially younger people, at noon at polling stations in Moscow, St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, with queues of several hundred people and even thousands."

There are also some facts about the election which have not been disputed. There were over 94,000...