Russians again elected Vladimir Putin president on Sunday.? But his third term as president promises to be very different than his first two.? Russia’s rapidly expanding Internet is piercing the Putin image as a 21st century czar. Vladimir Putin is not on trial.? It is an anti-Putin attack video prepared days before Russia’s presidential election. Watched by more than three-million people, this 50-second fake news clip shows how Russia’s political warfare is moving to cyberspace. Half of all Russian voters are now on the Internet, a phenomenon that was marginal when Mr. Putin left the presidency, in 2008.

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