Power Too Great (Thanks to Alliance Leader "May I Never Tire of Candlelight and Window Shadows" for the Reward)

Russia's election wasn't just drawing attention within the country. Abroad, it was receiving even more attention!

The election process had simply been too convoluted, with far too much spectacle.

And with Wang Ye, a young man of only twenty-six, seemingly about to win the election, it naturally sparked even greater interest among people around the world.

Although Russia had been somewhat "down on its luck" in recent years, it was still one of the world's major powers. The fact that the next person at the helm of such a country was very likely to be a young man in his twenties sounded rather absurd no matter how one looked at it...

Originally, Wang Ye was indeed very famous within Russia, and he was fairly well known throughout Eastern Europe as well. But on a global scale, his influence had not been all that significant.

After all, he had previously only served as Deputy Speaker of the Duma. Most of his work had been limited to domestic affairs or neighboring countries, so major foreign media outlets naturally paid little attention to a politician at his level.

Russia itself had been relatively quiet in recent years, having drifted away from the center of the world stage. Foreign media rarely reported news from Russia, and even when they did, they tended to focus more on the Kremlin.

When the election first began, many foreign media outlets had started following it, speculating over which candidate would emerge victorious.

Clearly, most media outlets favored Medvedev, this "rising star."

He was already serving as prime minister, had done a good job with the economy over the past few years, and had the Kremlin's full backing. Foreign media therefore believed he had a high chance of winning!

But the string of events that followed left the foreign