This is not an election, this is a fraud, a Putin-style fraud".
That is an argument for Putin-style government — not American democracy.
He has launched a crackdown on opposition non-governmental organisations, accusing some of them, Putin-style, of being foreign agents.
However, with Putin-style anti-Western rhetoric on the rise, Azerbaijan is drifting toward its big neighbor to the north.
"He could have been rough and abrasive and a Putin-style Russian Cold Warrior, which he was not.
It features damning reports by Andrew Wilson, a Ukraine analyst, on the drift into a Putin-style kleptocracy of President Viktor Yanukovych's regime.
In Ukraine, a new president was elected last year after a backlash against the Orange Revolution, and he is pursuing a Putin-style crackdown on the opposition.
The strategy here is to avoid actual human contact with voters while providing a measured stream of perfectly targeted Putin-style photo-ops for ranks of TV cameras.
But the Putin-style villain – who is an oversimplication and at least partly a product of cold war nostalgia – is rare.
Far from experimenting with Putin-style insults, the Christian Democrat leader's worst linguistic gaffe was her much-mocked description of the internet as "neuland" - "uncharted territory" - in 2013.
