The point of the article is that they didn&#x27;t convince on the merits, they convinced by completely saturating all forms of media with a single point of view, losing repeatedly (still), until they eventually eked out a win. Then when that win was found to be unconstitutional, they paid politicians directly. If that&#x27;s the core of democracy, I don&#x27;t understand what was so bad about <i>Pravda</i>.