Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday claimed that his country correctly predicted Donald Trumps electoral victory and characterized Democrats as sore losers eager to blame anyone else for their losses.
Speaking at his annual news conference, Putin said he hoped to have a productive relationship with Trump. Nobody believed he would win except for us, he said.
On Friday, Putin cast Democrats in the U.S. as desperate. "They are losing on all fronts and looking elsewhere for things to blame. In my view this, how shall I say it, degrades their own dignity, Putin said. You have to know how to lose with dignity."
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/putin-on-trump-us-democrats-232945
Putin knows about making sure you don't lose so he doesn't degrades his own dignity.
Allegations were made that Putin supporters had been driven around in coaches in order to vote for him in multiple constituencies (which is known as carousel voting).[30] These practices were documented by video monitoring systems installed on most voting stations.[31]
Pravda alleged that industrial plants with a continuous-cycle production have violated the law by bussing workers to polling centres.[32] The chairman of the Moscow Election Committee Valentin Gorbunov countered the accusation saying that this was normal practice and did not constitute a violation. According to Iosif Diskin, a member of the Public Chamber of Russia, there were special observers who controlled that workers have legal absentee certificates. Information about carousel voting was, according to him, not confirmed.[33] Georgy Fyodorov, director of the NGO "Citizens Watch" ("Гражданский контроль"), said that statements from the monitoring group GOLOS about carousel voting in Strogino District were false,[34] however, Citizens Watch never addressed the evidence of the electoral fraud presented by GOLOS. The level of electoral manipulation is substantial. According to GOLOS, one third of all electoral commissions had substantial irregularities at the stage of vote counting and tabulation.[35]
Claims that Putin's share of the vote was inflated by up to 10% were dismissed by Putin in a talk with journalists: "It's possible there were irregularities, probably there were some. But they can only influence hundredths of a per cent. Well, maybe one per cent; that I can imagine. But no more."[36] Rua Tomaić, OSCE observer from Croatia, noted that there were no irregularities at five polling stations near Kaluga.[37]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_presidential_election,_2012