Afaik, didn't the Romanian election also feature Russian money literally buying votes?

I.e. people asking at the polling places who was going to pay them the money they'd been promised

[Edit: nope, that was neighboring Moldova in 2024]

It does beg a question of how to run an election as a smaller state when faced with overwhelming propaganda from a much larger one (the US or Russia).

That's never not been true, I suppose, but with large unregulated, privately-controlled social media platforms it feels more pressing.

How does one run a "fair" election if the voters are being irradiated with one-sided messaging sufficient to turn an election? Is the result really the will of the people? And yet, what's the alternative?