In Russia, Election Nails You

(There's an old saying: Power corrupts. WKR prefers the saying: Power attracts the corruptible)

Middle Easy broke the news that Fedor is running for senate in Russia. As my knowledge of Russia is solely based upon the movie Red Dawn (Wolverines!!!) I guess this a cool development.

Huge news. Massive. Just received an email from a very reliable source from Russia that Fedor will be running for a congress seat in Russia for the pro-Kremlin party 'United Russia'. The party is dominant in the country and holds around 80% of the seats in the senate and Fedor will be representing his region. That's a fact. Just wait for the official announcement which will probably come at the end of this week if not in the next few hours. Now the accompanied rumor is that after Fedor fulfills the last two fights in his Strikeforce contract, he will retire from MMA.

Obviously the whole "retiring from MMA" thing will get a lot of play but this is Fedor. Might as well prepare for some Brett Favre shenanigans.

M-1 Global sent out a press release corroborating the story:

Among the most notable candidates, in addition to the deputies (Anatolia Zelikow, Victor Filatov, Vadim Cage, Valeria Skruga, Ivan Kulabuhova, Vladimir Kulikovsky) - a famous athlete Fedor Emelianenko, the new director of Belarusian State Technological University Sergey Glagolev (by the way, non-partisan), director of the Institute of Public and municipal government BSU Alexander Mamatov.

So, comrade Fedor might become comrade senator.