Putin will be out of power in a month. Screenshot this.

I haven't watched the whole thing yet, but this is very interesting to watch considering Catherine Belton's 'Putin's People', and the fact that a great many of the Conservative Party's largest donors are Russians with links to the Kremlin.

A lot of the recent behaviour that is called 'Chumocracy' by the newspapers is almost identical to what bureaucrats were doing in Russia immediately following the breakup of the USSR.

I bet we'll be able to discuss this matter with more intellectual honesty than the one about American oligarchy, at least.

Are the Russian elections fraudulent? Usually it's obvious to tell when they are, observers will report widespread problems, or one nation after another will refuse to recognise the results, but with Russia it seems like either they really are a reflection of how much the population actually like Putin, or he's just miles better than anyone else at getting away with cheating.

>>30846

My mum has a Russian friend who lives in Britain, and who says the people actually support Putin greatly, and that the majority feel that the West can just fuck off.

Just one opinion, mind. In reality, you can't explain away all the protests with that. And you can't in all honesty believe Putin's exorbitant official approval ratings.

>>30846

>Are the Russian elections fraudulent?

Yes, and they aren't even subtle about it. Putin could almost certainly win a legitimate election by a comfortable margin, but he wants people to know that the elections are a charade.

Blatant ballot-stuffing is a power play, like using weird poisons on dissidents or throwing scientists and spies out of windows - there's a thin veneer of deniability, but everyone knows who did it and why. In a country that is haunted by the chaos and misery of 1991, a huge part of Putin's appeal lies in his total stranglehold on power. He's a democratically-elected dictator, because that's what the majority of the Russian people want.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/03/19/videos-online-show-blatant-ballot-stuffing-in-russia/

>>30848
Putin wins in part because of controlled opposition. Most of the opponents he allows take a section of the electorate, which fracturing prevents any of them in particular from gaining enough momentum to pose a serious challenge. The only prominent figure that has shown any likelihood of building broad support is Navalny, and ... you know the rest.

>>30848
I knew, I knew someone would post this video of a polling station, as if it proves anything in isolation.
I'd already seen it.

My question wasn't 'does fraud happen' or 'is Putin corrupt', evidently it does and he is. My question was whether the elections are fraudulent, i.e. as a whole.

>>30850
>My question was whether the elections are fraudulent, i.e. as a whole.
What the fuck does that mean?

>>30851
Do you not consider there to be an order of magnitude between 1 vote falsely cast and 10 million votes falsely cast?

>>30852
Not if they know they only need 1 falsely cast vote to win.

>>30853
And how is that hypothetical at all relevant to Russia?

>>30850
>Independent analysis suggests, however, that Panfilova’s assertion that these [2018] elections were cleaner than 2012 are true. Russian physicist Sergei Shpilkin, who has used in-depth statistical analysis to highlight falsified votes in previous elections, found that vote falsification was likely at a record low. Or at least on par with falsifications seen in Putin’s 2004 election, with about 8 million falsified votes.

>>30854
Same way yours are.

>>30841
as slav i can say a lot of support putin and a lot of as well hate him depance he make a lot of good things after anarchy in 90s and make a decent life

>>30858
Navalny's video alleges that Putin was part of that 'anarchy' and personally contributed to, and profited from it.

>>30858
is a lot of like in uk
cronyism and peopel support only when they got interest like in neoliberalsim who exist in england only but scotland got more equality and freedom

im wating when Scotland got independence as estern european im going open a champagne

as well is that same sytution like in irland when try to be independence and your terrrist goverment from england shoot inccoenct citizen on street

>>30859
well you profited from sctoland oil rings

>>30841
you try to said you support lgbt i want see that in saudia arabia


im not 100% supporter of putin but live in that shithole in england make me clear see what is going on and
cronyism exist over here as well

well everybody support groupe when they got interest nobody dont do it nothing for free

>>30862>>30860

im sure if every big monopol cooporation is try to force to pay tax for normal citizen a president and parlement in any country is going to quick swap

as polse we make crytism in game over here is video what heppening now is not just in russian but in whole word after neoliberls change from uk and usa https://youtu.be/urQdzf0dN5Q

>>30863

communism is that same like nolibaralism nothing diffrent is only diffrent is monopol got tryany power insted of politician but is that same shit

as polse we live in both sytuation and we see is nothing work and the best is social democracy for us

>>30864

or state when monopol is control by goverment becouse without any hand who got power is only exploitation and anarchy

>>30860
>>30861
>>30862
>>30863
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>>30865

u wot m8?

>>30866
you can comper realy easy west and east is just that same sytuation

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>30867

Can you turn your spellcheck on when you're posting on here, at least?

>>30865
No surprise Ireland is struggling if they're teaching kids maths like that.

>>30869

I think they would rather teach them to blame the English.

>>30876

You're roughly half wrong there.

>>30860
>>30862
>>30863
>>30864
>>30865

Based and slav pilled.

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>30881
These pidors don't even write like Slavs. I don't know what is happening in this thread.

>>30882

I think he was saying, in a roundabout way, "I know we are, but what are you?"

It seems like someone doing a bad impression of how a "slav" would speak, but typing it out. It makes no sense so I'm just gonna assume it's some lad taking the piss.

>>30866
It's some Scottish lad trying to false flag by pretending to be Russian. I don't know what he seeks to gain from LARPing as a pro-indy Ruskie, but it's all rather sad.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/02/russian-opposition-leader-alexei-navalny-jailed

2 years and 8 month in prison. Will he ever leave?

>>30919

Best for him to avoid getting anywhere near a window on one of the upper floors of that prison.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-coronavirus-doctors-cases-covid-19-a9502876.html

Those Russian windows are dangerous, I tell you.