Talk about a couple of losers.
Posted on 03/17/2018 5:17:22 PM PDT by goldstategop
Russian Politics & Diplomacy World Business & Economy Military & Defense Science & Space Society & Culture Sport Press Review Presidential election kicks off in Russia Russian Politics & Diplomacy March 17, 23:34 UTC+3 Residents of the country’s easternmost regions - Kamchatka and Chukotka - are the first to cast their votes Share
© Sergey Malgavko/TASS MOSCOW, March 17. /TASS/. Russia’s presidential election has begun in the Far East. Residents of the country’s easternmost regions - Kamchatka and Chukotka - are the first to cast their votes.
Eighty-five Russian regions cover eleven time zones. While it is still Saturday night in most Russian regions, it is 08.00 a.m. Sunday in Kamchatka and Chukotka, when polling stations open the doors for voters.
How Russia votes At midnight Moscow time, the Sakhalin and Magadan Regions will begin voting. At 01.00 Moscow time, the Primorsky and Khabarovsk Regions, eastern Yakutia will start casting their ballots. An hour later, the bulk of Yakutia will follow suit.
At 03.00 Moscow time, the presidential election will kick off in the Trans-Baikal and Irkutsk Regions, and an hour later, in the Krasnoyarsk, Kemerovo and Tuva Regions.
The regions of Altai, Omsk, Tomsk and Novosibirsk will open polling stations at 05.00 a.m. Moscow time to be followed by the Urals regions an hour later, at 06.00 Moscow time and by the Volga regions two hours later, at 07.00.
Polling stations will open at 08.00 a.m. in central and northwestern Russia and the North Caucasus. Residents of the westernmost Kaliningrad region will be the last to go to the polls, which will open at 09.00 there and close at 21.00 Moscow time.
Therefore, the first results will be made public across the country only later on.
Russia’s presidential election Russia will hold its presidential election on Sunday, March 18. Eight candidates are running for the highest office in the Russian Federation.
Among them are: incumbent President Vladimir Putin; Pavel Grudinin, director of the Lenin State Farm (nominated by the Communist Party of Russia); TV personality and socialite Ksenia Sobchak (nominated by Civil Initiative); Sergey Baburin, head of the Russian People’s Union party; Maxim Suraikin, chairman of the Central Committee of the Communists of Russia party; Boris Titov, chairman of the Party of Growth and Russian Presidential Envoy for Entrepreneurs’ Rights; Grigory Yavlinsky, head of the Yabloko Party’s federal political committee; Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR).
The candidate to occupy the nation’s highest post - the Russian presidency - is elected according to direct suffrage, which was introduced based on the results of a referendum on March 17, 1991. Any citizen not younger than 35, and who has been permanently residing in Russia for at least 10 years, is eligible to run for office of President of Russia.
On Sunday, March 18, 2018, a total of 96,000 polling stations will begin to open nationwide at 08:00 local time. The voting will last until 20:00 local time.
According to Ella Pamfilova, the head of the Central Election Commission (CEC), some 1,500 foreign observers from 109 countries will be monitoring the presidential elections.
Some 13,000 journalists representing more than 2,400 Russian media outlets will be covering the elections. In addition, over 1,400 journalists, including 400 foreign reporters, will work at the CEC media center.
Once the voting ends, the district election commissions will open the ballot boxes with the observers watching the process, and count the votes. The returns will then be written down in the district commissions’ statements of votes (SOV). The 2018 election will see the introduction of a new QR-code technology. Each SOV will bear a unique QR-code to be identified by a special scanner. This will help avoid mistakes in feeding data into the national automated vote-counting system - GAS Vybory.
The chief of each district election commission will take the SOV to the regional election commission, where the data will be uploaded into the GAS Vybory vote-counting system.
The Central Election Commission shall approve of the election returns within 10 days.
In order to clinch a victory in the first round, a candidate has to receive more than half of the votes cast. Should none of the candidates collect enough votes, a runoff election would be called within three weeks’ time for the frontrunner and the runner-up. A simple majority will determine the winner in that case.
Some would compare to Saddam or Kim Jong but I believe de Gaulle and FDR with their pros and cons are better comparison.
Voter turnout at poll closing time was 64% and fell short of the Kremlin 70% target. Still, good enough for an election with no real suspense.
Polls in Kaliningrad, the Russian enclave on the Baltic have now closed.
We should get the first real votes out in the next hour but it won’t off much from the exit poll projection.
“” “” We should get the first real votes out in the next hour but it won’t off much from the exit poll projection.”” “”
Yet you’d hear it was faked.
Something you haven’t heard about 1996 Yeltsyn election who had like 2% exit poll but somehow managed to win in a landslide. All courtesy to Bill and Hillary.
That election was stolen. By all accounts the Communist candidate won but miraculously, Yeltsin somehow came out on top.
That was the last time Russia had anything like a contested election.
“” “” That was the last time Russia had anything like a contested election.”” “”
And the problem is not an election fraud but the fact that nobody wants another Yeltsyn or Communist.
“” “” Hey if you don’t want to vote for Putin
vote for her [Ksenia Sobchak].
She’d have my vote!”” “”
Shades of Sobchak (subtitled)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WmhbOgSKF9k
Talk about a couple of losers.
Can’t stand the man, but I don’t care for the opposition either: fake/real opposition, banned or otherwise.
Reagan and Ike didn’t control the state media like Putin..
So....
 July 15, 1996 |
Far be it from America ever to meddle in a foreign election, especially a Russian or Israeli one.
“” “” What a country!”” “”
In fact the video is made long before Sobchak gone political and it very accurately mocks St. Petersburg ghetto underclasses and Northwestern hillbillies. These groups are certainly not the whole country but they are Sobchak’s base. She is a queeen of a sort of ‘thug’ culture of poor slackers dreaming about big easy money.
“” “” Boris Titov would make a decent leader, IMHO, and I hope to see him run again.”” “”
I like the guy too. His advocating for small and medium business and anti-cronyism efforts worth attention.
Also there is no dirt on him.
Maybe he’d do better next time although lack of political experience might be a problem. Russia has a swamp of its own to drain.
Russians are not ready for change.
And the opposition will have to talk to them and develop practical proposals to improve their lives.
Until they do, they’ll remain relegated to the margins of Russian society and remain irrelevant.
Putin had a MAGA slogan: A Strong President, A Strong Russia.
It seemed to resonate with voters. He has a broad mandate to tackle the country’s problems. With the election over, the hard work now begins.
in many respects Russia today has a more free and vibrant media than we do
and note our state media - NPR, PBS, CNN, WashPo etc etc etc
You live in a fantasy world.
Our media has a liberal anti American bias. They are horrible and not deserving of the civil protections in our constitution.
However, Russian media is pure state media, living under the fear of repression or poisoning, all touting the Putin line and Putin.
you need to re-read For the Good of the Cause
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