Growing power of social media - Trying to expose the puppeteers

Vladimir Putin was one of the first of 107.3m voters across 11 time zones to use one of 97,000 polling stations to vote in Russia’s faux presidential election yesterday.

Assured of re-election for another six-year term, he was supremely confident and assured the state news agency RIA-Novosti: “I am sure of the correctness of the course that I propose for the country.”