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2021-09-17 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russian 3 day long elections begin in Khabarovsk

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Posted by badanov 2021-09-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Apple and Google under fire for political meddling as they both remove Navalny's app under pressure from the Kremlin on the day Russia goes to the presumed-fixed polls

Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-17 08:16|| 2021-09-17 08:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Let me look at my crystal ball. Concentrate hard. Harder - the future is hard to see. Putin wins with 65% of the vote.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-09-17 08:19|| 2021-09-17 08:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Apple and Google under fire for political meddling as they both remove Navalny's app under pressure from the Kremlin on the day Russia goes to the presumed-fixed polls

Hard to fix polls when there are no fewer than 10 separate political parties vieing for spots on the national Duma

Posted by badanov 2021-09-17 08:40|| 2021-09-17 08:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Let me look at my crystal ball. Concentrate hard. Harder - the future is hard to see. Putin wins with 65% of the vote.

Allow me to help you with your reading comprehension.

Putin isn't running this cycle.

Posted by badanov 2021-09-17 08:41|| 2021-09-17 08:41|| Front Page Top

#5 ^Parliamentary system, Badanov. Parliamentary system. You can't do anything unless you've a majority (coalition) in parliament.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-09-17 09:11|| 2021-09-17 09:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Imagine if they could have designed FAX machines to reject samizdat.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-17 09:24|| 2021-09-17 09:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Ref #5: Not too dissimilar to our Republican party. They can't do anything whether in the majority or minority.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-17 10:05|| 2021-09-17 10:05|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ Rimshot!

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-17 10:08|| 2021-09-17 10:08|| Front Page Top

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