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"Lack of credible opposition"
(According to his Wikipedia article, Kharitonov even quit in the previous political party he was in because it became part of United Russia)
If only Russians had a real choice between Putin and 101% Putin it would have been a wholesome freedom democracy like in the west.
Well they had a real choice, several times, between Putin and a various copies of Yeltsin.
Are there elections that aren't "state-managed?"
For real. US elections are multi-year multi-billion dollar media extravaganzas managed by an army of consultants and media professionals
Remember when the candidate selection vote for the Democrats in several key states used an untested black box app developed by one of the candidates?
Definitely no corruption here
Biden extends one man-rule in America after stage-managed election devoid of credible opposition
1 hour ago • Atheist Jones
The Russia Ukraine war for me is a situation where all the players are just bad or worse but goddam is lib rage hilarious
It's honestly the best part of this war, the libs really go mask off over it.
Is that podium FLOATING?
Russia has spent all of their budget on the war, so they can no longer afford podium stands and speakers have to hold them up themselves.
there's a thin black metal pole underneath it that's camouflaged by Putin's suit. You can see the contours of it if you squint
Every newspaper in Britain is running with the 'no real opposition' line on the Russian election.
While simultaneously talking non-stop about a snap election between the Tories & Labour.
While also running lots of Tory-soothing stories about how Labour have vowed not to undo Tory policy.
Beyond parody.
I am reminded of Yanis Varoufakis' story about German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble screaming at him that "elections can not be allowed to change economic policy!"
Comrade CNN highlights the pointlessness of electoralism to achieve system change
Russians don't even have a choice between putler and 99% putler, smdh.
In Russia, you are given exactly one option for President and everyone is required to agree that he is the only person fit to lead the country.
In America, you are given three choices. One of them is a senile baffoon who will most assuredly spell the end of the Republic if he is elected. The other is a throwback to the 1980s who is coasting entirely on name recognition. And the third is a failson without any credible leadership qualities, who simply runs because he doesn't have anything better to do.
One of these countries will have 75% election turnout. The other will be lucky to crack 60%. Care to guess which?
One of them is a senile baffoon who will most assuredly spell the end of the Republic if he is elected. The other is a throwback to the 1980s who is coasting entirely on name recognition. And the third is a failson without any credible leadership qualities, who simply runs because he doesn’t have anything better to do.
I am disturbed by the fact I can't tell which one is which
Westoid media seems to be making a big deal about the lack of "international observers" to the Russian election. When was the last time you heard about official international observers in western elections?
even wikipedia has this about the observers:
On 14 March, delegations from 36 countries arrived in Russia at the invitation of the Russian Federation Council as foreign observers of the election, who in fact do not represent observer missions but a visitors' programme.[121][122] On 17 March 2024, the Chair of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation (CEC), Ella Pamfilova, announced that 1,115 international observers and experts from 129 countries were monitoring the electoral process.[123] They included Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan Sikandar Sultan Raja.[124]
so what the media is actually saying they need to have some kkkrackers there to "observe"
To anglos it is common knowledge that a war-time president who holds off the hated enemy and manages to stabilize the country while somewhat improving or at least maintaining standards of living will be very unpopular and lose elections.
How long has Bibi ruled fascist 
?
Maybe if the west stops trying to shove 
into every election or bomb election ballot trucks or create nuclear exetential threats to Russia they might have some more "favorable" changes? Almost like the more we keep fucking with Russia, the more the Russian population resists. Really fucking strange!
What happened to the like 20% polling that the KPRF had a while back?