Posted on 09/09/2022 5:49:37 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
MOSCOW — Russians began voting on Friday in the first nationwide elections since the invasion of Ukraine in a climate of wartime censorship and repression, with the Kremlin trying to assure the public that it was business as usual.
The vote for local and regional governments across the country includes the first municipal-level elections in the capital of Moscow since 2017, when the opposition won a sizable minority of seats despite the Kremlin’s dominance of the political system and accusations of fraud. But the ranks of the opposition have since been depleted even further. Many anti-government politicians have fled the country while others have been arrested or blocked from running by the election commissions.
“Real competition this year is at one of the lowest rates in a decade,” according to an assessment by a Russian independent elections watchdog, Golos.
Russia has for years cracked down on opposition movements and restricted the space for anti-Kremlin candidates on the national political stage. So opposition leaders have sought smaller roles in local and regional governments where they could still make a difference.
But officials have gone to great lengths to block opposition candidates by imprisoning them on accusations of disseminating false information about the Ukraine war or charging them with minor offenses that prohibit them from running.
Andrei Z. Morev, 47, was elected head of the municipal council in Moscow’s central Yakimanka district in 2017, when he and other candidates from the opposition party Yabloko won seven out of eight seats there. He has said that he expected to be re-elected this year.
But in August, the local election commission removed him from the list of registered candidates, saying that he was affiliated with an extremist group because he had a sticker on his car promoting smart voting.
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The Z’s are going win in a Landslide, because the Russians have Zero idea how many dead Russiab kids there are.
Hail Putin!
Some nerve criticizing anyone when Biden is using the DOJ to wipeout his competition
Mail in ballots?
Cause...Zero fraud.
Zelensky announces ban on 11 Ukrainian political parties with ties to Russia
https://www.axios.com/2022/03/20/ukraine-ban-political-parties-russian-ties
The vote will change nothing. Honest or stolen elections make no difference when the major political parties all back the invasion and Putin’s own party has super majorities in both the State Duma and Federation Council. There is no “just get rid of Putin” when he is the most well known of many dominos. They are all equally in the same ship in the storm of their own making.
More gaslighting from the usual 🤡🌎 sources.
Golos is "independent"...as in funded by the CIA.
“The vote will change nothing. Honest or stolen elections make no difference when the major political parties all back the invasion and Putin’s own party has super majorities in both the State Duma and Federation Council.
There is no “just get rid of Putin” when he is the most well known of many dominos. They are all equally in the same ship in the storm of their own making.”
The Russian people may find a way.
“Zelensky announces ban on 11 Ukrainian political parties with ties to Russia”
President Selenskyy is a wise man. The only way to get rid of the corrupt deep state in Ukraine is kick out the deeply embedded Pro-Russian traitors Putin installed!
Apologize for typo:
“Zelensky announces ban on 11 Ukrainian political parties with ties to Russia”
President Zelenskyy is a wise man. The only way to get rid of the corrupt deep state in Ukraine is kick out the deeply embedded Pro-Russian traitors Putin installed!
Big deal. In USA we stop counting votes at midnight, then a truck stops by with bundles of ballots at 3 AM while all republican poll watchers are not there. And we use DOMINION machines to count votes. Russia does not use Dominion machines.
Zelensky was not even good at homo-erotic dance routines. I have seen his video’s. He was horrible.
“Russia does not use Dominion machines.”
Of course not! Putin kills his opponents using various strategies: false suicides, by poison, hanging, self-inflicted gun shot woulds, throwing out off roof-tops or out of 4th floor windows.
You have such a strange but vivid imagination.
Zelensky was a comedian performing a dance routine!!!
Let me offer clarity here you totally misunderstand the parody.
In 1998 at 20 years of age, [Twenty-four years ago]
Zelensky joined his local team competing in the KVN comedy TV show.
International competitions were held where teams (usually college students) competed by giving funny responses to questions and/or showing prepared sketches.
THE PARODY COMEDY SKETCH was of rugged, tough Cossacks shown as feminized drag queens!
If you don’t get it that’s. The audience found it hysterical! The initial Cossack costume was torn off before dancing.
Listen, I dot no grudge against any foreign leader.
I just do not want jacking up national debt to send Billions to foreign countries. Especially do not want USA getting involved in foreign wars.
When Ukraine war ends, I am 100% sure Zelensky will want a Trillion dollars from USA to rebuild Ukraine.
“I just do not want jacking up national debt to send Billions to foreign countries.”
Check out what U.S. has always spent in foreign aid:
New Report: Nearly $300 Billion In Foreign Aid Spent By U.S. Government
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/08/04/new-report-nearly-300-billion-in-foreign-aid-spent-by-us-government/?sh=2c8812364374
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