Russian Presidential Elections

Who will win the Russian Presidential Elections

  • Putin

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Putin

    Votes: 3 23.1%

  • Putin

    Votes: 1 7.7%

  • On Planet X, we all vote for Putin

    Votes: 9 69.2%
  • Total voters
    13
  • Poll closed .
Today it was also revealed what Putin discussed with Melania while sitting next to her at the G20 meeting In Hamburg. According to him, it is what we all expected: Maternity benefits in Russia (which are yuuge), Kamchatka bears, Siberian tigers and the joys of fishing (all yuuge as well). He boasted a little bit, he says, but he didn't try to recruit her.
 
How the Russian Presidential Election Race Looks in its Final Days

Gilbert Doctorow said:
The candidates for the presidency in Russia’s election this Sunday are now in the home stretch. Not much has changed in the past several weeks as regards the standings of each in the polls of voter sympathies. Vladimir Putin holds the lead, way out in front, with nearly 70% of voters saying they will cast their votes for him. The candidate of the Communist Party, Pavel Grudinin, has held on to second place, at just over 7% despite suffering some severe setbacks over revelations of his bank accounts held abroad. And third place, with just over 5% goes to the nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky of the LDPR.

Liberal candidate, Ksenia Sobchak, who positioned herself to catch the protest vote “against all,” has about 1.5%. The remaining four candidates – Sergei Baburin, Maxim Suraikin on the Communist Left and Boris Titov, Grigory Yavlinsky on the Liberal Right – have fractions of one percent of the electorate committed to them.

Candidate Putin appears on track to achieve the 70:70 target that his campaign team set for him, meaning a turnout on election day of 70% of the electorate, of which 70% vote for Putin. Such results would support a claim to popular validation of his domestic and foreign programs for the coming six years. It would give him a free hand for substantial reworking of the cabinet, which, rumor says, may come in the days immediately ahead.

However, the campaign is about process as much as it is about results, and at that level there is a great deal which merits consideration because of what this electoral campaign says about the condition of Russian democracy today and where the country is headed. [...]
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Childlike Empress said:
One of the two Putin-hugging documentaries Doctorow mentions, "World Order 2018", has already been English-subtitled (by Inessa S again). Youtube is so afraid of it that it was immediately removed "for violating YouTube's policy on spam, deceptive practices, and scams." :rolleyes:

To stream and download on vimeo.
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If you wish to spend your time watching stupid, idiotic, lying, pro-Putin propaganda, then you are quite welcome to do so.

I, however, can think of several other things that I would rather be doing than watching stupid, idiotic, lying pro-Putin propaganda.
 
Childlike Empress said:
Did I make the impression that I was asking for your permission?
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Nope! Not at all.

I was just saying that if you wish to use your time to review stupid, idiotic, lying pro-Putin propaganda then you are welcome do so.

As for me, however, I (and quite a few other people) will be avoiding the stupid, idiotic, lying, pro-Putin propaganda.

Does that clarify things for you?
 
I am still amused that somebody who has far left..by any standards...political views is a defender of people like Putin,Milosevic,and Trump....
 
Crossbow said:
Nope! Not at all.

I was just saying that if you wish to use your time to review stupid, idiotic, lying pro-Putin propaganda then you are welcome do so.

As for me, however, I (and quite a few other people) will be avoiding the stupid, idiotic, lying, pro-Putin propaganda.

Does that clarify things for you?
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No, I still fail to see why you felt the urge to let me know that I am "welcome" in your mind to do something you have no ability to tolerateWP anyway.
 
Childlike Empress said:
No, I still fail to see why you felt the urge to let me know that I am "welcome" in your mind to do something you have no ability to tolerateWP anyway.
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Well, if you are vexed about the meaning of the world "welcome", then I just consulted my dictionary, and here is what I found:

Welcome: To receive kindly and hospitably

I hope that clarifies things for you.
 
Blessed are the cheesemakers

Last Friday, Dutch current affairs program "EenVandaag" had an item on Mr. Oleg Sirota.

Here's a short clip on Twitter.

For those who don't know Russian or Dutch the summary:
Oleg's ancestors had been dairy farmers. That changed with the Russian Revolution and the subsequent collectivization. Oleg himself had been a software developer. But when Putin announced counter-sanctions against the EU, in August 2014, he dropped out of ICT to pursue his lifelong dream: to become a cheesemaker. Likewise, his mom quit her lifelong job at a children's hospital to sell the cheese in their little shop. He proudly presents his own version of "Bergkäse", which he hopes Putin will come and taste and will make him remember of his days in Dresden.

Blessed are the cheesemakers who cannot compete on quality or price but only survive due to lack of competition.
 
ddt said:
Blessed are the cheesemakers who cannot compete on quality or price but only survive due to lack of competition.
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Well, there's a Russian supermarket in town where I go every two or three months to buy a couple of products (Ukrop paste f.e. ;)). Some years ago they had next to no cheese. By now that has indeed exploded, I noticed. Cheese is still nothing you go to a Russian supermarket for, because it's not typical and isn't consumed (and hence not produced) very much, but the domestic Russian cheese market (among many others) certainly has profited from the sanctions.
 
A quarter of the votes counted, VV is at 73% with the communist coming in second at a very high 15%, but that could have to do with the results coming in from east to west over Russia's many time zones. Clear enough already to play the obligatory congratulations song:


My boyfriend is in trouble once again:
Got in a fight, got drunk on something nasty
I've had enough and I chased him away
And now I want a man like Putin

One like Putin, full of strength
One like Putin, who won't be a drunk
One like Putin, who wouldn't hurt me
One like Putin, who won't run away!

I've seen him on the news last night
He was telling us that the world has come to crossroads
With one like him, it's easy to be home and out
And now I want a man like Putin

One like Putin, full of strength
One like Putin, who won't be a drunk
One like Putin, who wouldn't hurt me
One like Putin, who won't run away!

:wave1​
 
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RT result page. As I said, as the results come in from east to west, the commie is losing against Putin (and a bit against Zhirinovsky). With ~60% counted now, Grudinin is barely above 14% while VV is just over 74% and looks like cracking 75%.
 
dudalb said:
I am still amused that somebody who has far left..by any standards...political views is a defender of people like Putin,Milosevic,and Trump....
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Shills (paid or unpaid) for the likes of those people - and others, e.g. Assad, the Iranian theocracy, others like the late Fidel Castro and Muammar Qaddafi, Saddam Hussein to some extent (mainly post-1990/1991) - don't have political views so much as they have political disinformation agendas on behalf of the very real and very active enemies of liberal democracy, human rights, the free press, etc. And of course, as long as the US, UK, NATO, Israel, and so on are the targets, who cares about the ulterior motives, agendas, and barbaric practices of the state and allied non-state actors targeting them?

It's not that complicated, really.
 
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Childlike Empress said:
Blocked from embedding here, but it likely is this incident that was dealt with shortly after detecting - and it was detected in real time because everyone can watch any voting booth live on the internet.
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It most probably is; the name of the town matches (modulo differing transcription), and the text in your link implies there's only one polling station in that town.

Dutch TV news have been showing footage of ballot stuffing from another poling station, which I haven't found (yet) on Youtube.

It's really sloppy work of the FSB, I must say, or whichever agency is responsible for installing the CCTV. You can clearly see them stuffing the ballots, but you cannot make out on the video that they've filled out the ballots for the right candidate.
 
It's not like they had any real choice. With Georgia, Ukraine, Syria, etc. Putin has carefully framed it Us vs. Them....and it worked, AGAIN.

"We don't need revolution....we need stability" Worked. AGAIN.
Just a different mindset in general over there after centuries of conditioning.
 
smartcooky said:
So Russians once again elect their criminal dictator for another 6 years....

Nothing to see here folks... move along!
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I wonder if opposing candidates make concession phone calls to the winner, like in the US.

"Okay okay you win, Vlad. Now a deal's a deal, send over the antivenom."
 
Venom said:
It's not like they had any real choice. With Georgia, Ukraine, Syria, etc. Putin has carefully framed it Us vs. Them....and it worked, AGAIN.

"We don't need revolution....we need stability" Worked. AGAIN.
Just a different mindset in general over there after centuries of conditioning.
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Russia never really changes much when it comes to politics.
That freaking Stalin is still a popular figure in Russia tells you all you need to know.
 
Putin might be a nationalist, but he is doing a great disservice to his country by making a future peaceful transition of power impossible.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
Putin might be a nationalist, but he is doing a great disservice to his country by making a future peaceful transition of power impossible.
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Is he though? As long as the future leader is hand picked by Putin it seems to be something that is doable. Being the picked leader to support and cover the corruption of the previous regime is something Putin knows something about.
 
ponderingturtle said:
Is he though? As long as the future leader is hand picked by Putin it seems to be something that is doable. Being the picked leader to support and cover the corruption of the previous regime is something Putin knows something about.
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How long, exactly, do you expect Putin to live, assuming no foul play (which is quite the assumption) ?
Also, unlike China, Russia has basically no tradition of an Éminence grise: you are the boss only as long as people know you are the boss.
Putin cannot give up his power, since without it he will lose all his wealth.
And quite probably his life.
 
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