Claims that an ‘Indian observer’ was present to oversee Russia’s dubious referendum in southern and eastern provinces of Ukraine have led to controversy, according to The Hindu. An official Russian message on Telegram revealed that “representatives from Great Britain, Germany, Syria, Togo, Spain, Colombia, South Africa, Ghana, Serbia, India, Iceland and Latvia worked at polling stations in Donetsk and Makeevka”, according to the Indian daily. my family was just forced to vote at gunpoint in russian cosplay of a “referendum” in southern ukraine: \- they come to your house\- you have to openly t…