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SamuelRSmith said:
Who knows what the future may hold. Russia may even one day join the EU (there were a lot of talks about it at the start of the decade, just Google "Russia joining EU")... they already partake in the Eurovision Song Contest ;)

Does the EU allow defacto dictatorships into it's government?

I had just assumed that free elections was a required part of joining the EU.

It's one of the reasons I like the EU so much.  Though there attempts to strongarm the lisbon treaty through are disheartening.