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Not sure if you're just trying to troll, but you don't get elected into any Duma if you're from the opposition. In fact I don't remember there being any real (

Not sure if you're just trying to troll, but you don't get elected into any Duma if you're from the opposition. In fact I don't remember there being any real (elected) opposition in Russia, the "multiple parties" have always just been a theater. Like maybe some of the smaller parties would sometimes manage to push some insignificant agenda, but the important issues would always be controlled by the actual leadership in power.

richrichie 3y ago
No it was a genuine question. Did his party win any seats at any election at all? Call me old school, i am a bit skeptical of single perspective foreign country coverage after the Iraq war lies and NYT’s fawning coverage of Stalin’s Russia.
- tokai 3y ago
  Russia is not a democracy. I doesn't matter if he won any elections.
  - richrichie 3y ago
    Why do you say so? They seem to have regular elections and voter turnout seems decent (per wikipedia).
    - ErneX 3y ago
      Elections where candidates are murdered or barred from participating? Those aren’t elections.
      - richrichie 3y ago
        I was not aware of these. Were they barred through court process (like we are trying to bar Trump through judicial process) or was it extra-judicial, arbitrary? Don’t they have the equivalent of the election commission.
        omgtehlion 3y ago
        Yep. They have election commission, appointed by 1/3 putin, 1/3 by duma (with putin's party dominating it), 1/3 by "soviet of federation" which is comprised of governor representativs of governors appointed by putin (in Russia you can not vote for your governor). So, completely independent institutuion, I suppose...
        ErneX 3y ago
        What good are elections if you jail or straight up murder the dissents/opposition? It’s a complete joke. Navalny was also poisoned in 2020 he almost died on a commercial flight that had to be diverted. Look up also the amount of journalists murdered there, that isn’t a democracy.

richrichie 3y ago

No it was a genuine question. Did his party win any seats at any election at all? Call me old school, i am a bit skeptical of single perspective foreign country coverage after the Iraq war lies and NYT’s fawning coverage of Stalin’s Russia.

tokai 3y ago
Russia is not a democracy. I doesn't matter if he won any elections.
- richrichie 3y ago
  Why do you say so? They seem to have regular elections and voter turnout seems decent (per wikipedia).
  - ErneX 3y ago
    Elections where candidates are murdered or barred from participating? Those aren’t elections.
    - richrichie 3y ago
      I was not aware of these. Were they barred through court process (like we are trying to bar Trump through judicial process) or was it extra-judicial, arbitrary? Don’t they have the equivalent of the election commission.
      - omgtehlion 3y ago
        Yep. They have election commission, appointed by 1/3 putin, 1/3 by duma (with putin's party dominating it), 1/3 by "soviet of federation" which is comprised of governor representativs of governors appointed by putin (in Russia you can not vote for your governor). So, completely independent institutuion, I suppose...
      - ErneX 3y ago
        What good are elections if you jail or straight up murder the dissents/opposition? It’s a complete joke. Navalny was also poisoned in 2020 he almost died on a commercial flight that had to be diverted. Look up also the amount of journalists murdered there, that isn’t a democracy.