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Putin may be the biggest dupe of his fake election landslide

With official results showing he won nine out of 10 votes, has the Russian autocrat overplayed his hand?

BY EVA HARTOG

 

“The most important outcome of any Russian election is legitimacy,” Vladimir Putin told Russia’s top election officials when they gathered at his residence outside Moscow in November. “That is the foundation of political stability.”

On Sunday, after three days of voting, those same officials declared a landslide victory for the president.

Preliminary results showed Putin had won a record 87 percent of the vote, on a 73 percent turnout, beating even the most rosy-eyed, pro-Kremlin predictions. 

There is no doubt that Putin will use the outcome as proof of mass support. But such a distorted election — in which all challengers were crushed and even the dead may have voted for Putin — risks undermining the political stability he craves.

This election was a historic low for post-Soviet Russia. 

“Over the years, the presidential administration has created more and more favorable conditions for itself,” David Kankiya, of independent monitoring group Golos, told POLITICO. “But this time it reached an unprecedented peak.”

Even without taking into account the crackdown on the opposition, the vote was the least competitive in Russia’s modern history: Only three Kremlin candidates separated Putin from a Stalin-style ballot with one name.  

It was also the least transparent: Never before have there been so few independent observers with so little access (tellingly, the head of Golos is in jail.)

And in another first, in some 29 regions, including those most prone to protest, voting took place electronically, described by independent election monitors as a “black box” method designed to facilitate vote tampering. 

But perhaps the most flagrant violation in “this landscape of illegality,” says Ekaterina Schulmann, a Russian political analyst at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin, has been a voting army of “dead souls.”

This is especially true of votes cast from the “new territories” occupied by Russia in Ukraine, where electoral authorities said there were some 4.6 million potential voters. That figure is in line with old Ukrainian statistics from peacetime, but hardly corresponds to the current population. 

“It’s obvious that in times of war, people get killed, they move away,” says Schulmann. 

 

Pure fiction

“There’s a war going on there and zero public oversight,” agreed Kankiya, adding that residents did not even need a Russian passport to vote. “So whatever result the authorities decided on, they got. We’re entering the sphere of pure fiction here.” 

Then there were the tens of million of state employees and students who were coerced into voting. 

Paradoxically, the queues which could be seen outside some polling stations on Friday — the day most were assigned to vote on, presumably to give election officials more time to tweak the result to satisfactory levels —  were in fact a display of people “stripped of their voting rights,” said Kankiya. 

“Like in Soviet  times, when you were forced to vote, whether you wanted to or not.” 

Across the country at polling stations people dressed in costume, presumably to infuse the election with some joy. But no carnival of animals could distract from the groups of identically dressed factory workers, fishermen and men on horseback who showed up to cast their ballots at exactly the same time.

“I’m convinced that an absolute majority of Russians won’t have much faith in the results of this vote,” said Kankiya.

Although a glaringly obvious circus, the Kremlin might not care that much.

Rather than a gauge of public sentiment, elections under Putin resemble a  nationwide test of readiness for the state apparatus. And this time, like last time, it passed.

From state companies to libraries, universities and factories, superiors instructed their lower downs how and when to vote and then harassed them for evidence they had completed the task. 

Even at the highest level, none of Putin’s three supposed rivals dared to even pretend they were going for the win. 

The past three days of voting have provided Putin with the assurance that the power vertical is in place and Russians will do as they are told. 

For the Kremlin that is useful confirmation ahead of what many predict will be turbulent times. Following the 2018 election, Russians were presented with painful pension reforms.  The expectation now is that Putin might ramp up mobilization efforts. 

In weeks and months to come, Putin will also overhaul the government, most likely to the benefit of hardliners, writes political analyst Tatiana Stanovaya, adding they were likely to double down on Russia’s commitment towards a war-time economy and a war-time morality. 

 

The protesters and the elite

Putin will be beginning his fifth term on the back of the biggest anti-war protests since early 2022.

Heeding a call to assemble “at noon against Putin,” thousands of Russians on Sunday, scattered across some 95,000 polling stations and cities worldwide, came out in a show of dissent. 

Coming on the back of queues for anti-war candidate Boris Nadezhdin and more recently for Alexei Navalny’s funeral, the flashmob underscored that despite unprecedented repression, Russians’ ability to offer resistance has not completely atrophied. 

“The Kremlin has sustained three blows to its image,” in a matter of several months, said Nikolai Petrov, a consulting fellow at Chatham House. 

“The image that Putin wanted has been ruined,” he said, although adding that there were not yet any visible political consequences.

At multiple polling stations across the country, some people also attempted to inflict damage on ballot boxes and polling stations, by pouring green dye and ink over ballots or starting fires.

Although it is unclear what exactly motivated these people (one version is that they were duped), many observers saw the sabotage acts as an expression of their own rage and frustration. 

Finally, many Russians chose to invalidate their ballot by ticking several boxes and adding their own anti-war messages or writing down the names of opposition politicians, such as Navalny.

The messages won’t be read by Putin, but they will go through the hands of of thousands of election officials — and higher. 

“The main audience for the Kremlin is the elite, it is they who must be convinced that in the past six years, Putin’s position has not weakened, but has become stronger,” said Petrov. 

But he added fooling them would be difficult precisely because they have been involved in the vote rigging and therefore know to what extent the official picture differs from reality. 

Putin, however, won’t — as his entourage will undoubtedly present him with an airbrushed version of the past three days. 

“This is where there could be a big rift,” says Petrov. “Objectively, the election has not strengthened the position of the Kremlin. But subjectively, Putin might be under the impression that he enjoys total support and he now has free rein.”

Ironically, more than anyone else, it is Putin himself who might be the biggest dupe of his own rigged vote.  

“If the elite see that, under pressure from the Kremlin, they are reporting numbers today that are much different from the real numbers, they’ll draw their conclusions,” said Petrov. “They’ll be looking around and wondering who they should be placing their bets on as the next boss.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/russian-election-vladimir-putin-fake-legitimacy-moscow-ukraine/

 

GUSNOTE: I ONLY INTRODUCED THE POLITICO FICTION TO SHOW HOW THE WESTERN MEDIA TRAVELS IN DELUDED POOPOOLAND... EVEN IF 20 PER CENT OF THE VOTES IN RUSSIA WERE ILLEGITIMATE (ALL VOTES IN RUSSIA WERE LEGITIMATE — SAY ONE PER CENT WERE FRAUDULENT FOR GOOD MEASURE COMPARED TO POSSIBLY 10 PER CENT FRAUDULENT VOTES IN THE 2020 ELECTIONS IN AMERICA) PUTIN WOULD STILL GET 67 PER CENT APPROVAL — A FIGURE OUR WESTERN LEADERS FOAM AT THE MOUTH FOR, WHILE DREAMING ABOUT BEING ELECTED KING WITH 22.7 OF THE VOTES....

POLITICO IS A RAG, UN TORCHON, A SOILED TOILET PAPER, A FLUSHED NAPPY, A DIRTY INKED RUBBISH CRAZED PLASTIC ... POLITICO ISN'T A NEWS OUTLET.... IT'S WORSE THAN A SEWER OUTLET... IT PUBLISHES  NON-RECYCLABLE CRAP.

 

 

 

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western scorn....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqEW8py7uYc

Putin presents image of overwhelming support by Russians through election, says analyst

 

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MEANWHILE:

Putin started to rise to political prominence during the country’s times of trouble in the 1990s, when the very existence of the Russian nation was up in the air, former US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer Scott Ritter told Sputnik.
The three-day presidential elections have wrapped up in Russia, where an overwhelming majority of voters opted for incumbent Vladimir Putin remaining in office for a new six-year term.
Putin prevailed over his three competitors, including head of the Liberal Democratic Party Leonid Slutsky, Communist Party candidate Nikolay Kharitonov, and New People Party nominee Vladislav Davankov.
Speaking to Sputnik, former US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer Scott Ritter looked back at Putin’s previous years of presidency in light of the Russian head of state’s election victory. According to Ritter, the process of reinvigorating the Russian nation was one of the key achievements by Putin.
One should understand that this process "didn't happen in a vacuum" and was "the byproduct of a quarter century of dedicated work on behalf of Vladimir Putin for Russia and the Russian people," the ex-US Marine Corps intelligence officer said.

He recalled Putin’s state­ of the nation address to the parliament last month, when the Russian president talked about "the pride that Russians have in their country, the pride he has in being a Russian leader, that Russia is a civilization that must be taken into account by the rest of the world, that a world without Russia is a world that cannot exist." It seems, however, people "don't understand where this is coming from," per Ritter.
"You see, the root of all of this passion for Russia comes from the decade of the 1990s, the time when the very existence of the Russian state, of the Russian people, of the Russian nation was being called into question. It came in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was born of the dark times of the failure of perestroika," which saw former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's "failed gambit to transition from a communist society into one where Western market capitalism could prevail," Ritter noted.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240317/scott-ritter-putins-dedicated-work-added-to-reinvigorated-russia-1117362285.html

 

MAKE A DEAL PRONTO BEFORE THE SHIT HITS THE FAN:

 

 

NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

THESE WILL ALSO INCLUDE ODESSA, KHERSON AND KHARKIV.....

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE USA.

 

EASY.

 

THE WEST KNOWS IT.

 

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ABC crap....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihzt5GNfnig

What's the point of Russian elections if Putin always wins? | If You’re Listening

 

Russia is voting in an election, but we already know Vladimir Putin will win. He always wins. So why does Russia bother holding elections? What’s the point? Putin learned a lesson many years ago about the illusion of democracy, and it’s one he has never forgotten.

 

THIS REPORT SHOWS A VILLAGE IN SIBERIA WITH NO TV, NO INTERNET AND VISITED BY OFFICIAL PEOPLE WITH A POLLING BOX.... WOW! SO WE ARE INTIMATED THAT THESE VILLAGERS ARE UNEDUCATED AND FORCED TO VOTE... REMINDS ME OF QUEENSLAND... BOY... IN AUSTRALIA, IF WE DON'T VOTE WE GET SHOT LIKE VERMINED ROOS... NOT REALLY BUT WE GET FINED: VOTING IS COMPULSORY IN AUSTRALIA.

QUEENSLAND HAS NEVER BEEN A HOT BED OF INTELLECTUALISM AS WELL — EXCEPT A FEW POCKETS OF POPULACE, INCLUDING ORIGINAL INHABITANTS AND SOME HISTORICAL REBELLION WHEN COMMUNISTS WENT TO PARAGUAY. SO....

 

MEANWHILE THE WESTERN MEDIA HAS GONE IN MELTDOWN... GRABBING ALL THE THIEVES, CROOKS AND GANGSTERS THEY CAN FIND TO DUMP SHIT ON PUTIN, INCLUDING BILL BROWDER...

 

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AND A BIG THANK YOU TO THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR VLADIRMIR PUTIN... SURE THE WEST HATES HIM, BUT MOST OF YOU LOVE HIM BECAUSE HE SAVED RUSSIA FROM THE LOOTERS...

 

I REPEAT:

DESPITE WHAT THE WESTERN BOFFINS CLAIM, PUTIN IS A MAN OF PEACE AND FAIRNESS, WHILE NAPOLEON WAS A MAN OF WAR AND LOOTING. BOTH HAVE HAD TO STRUGGLE AGAINST THE ENGLISH HEGEMONY... NAPOLEON FAILED. PUTIN IS WINNING AND WE (THE WEST) HATE HIM FOR THIS.... THINK ABOUT IT...

 

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united....

Vladimir Putin’s triumph suggests its people are more united than ever.

“This is a great day for Russia,” declared former US State Department counterterrorism analyst Scott Bennett as early results showed a landslide victory for Vladimir Putin in 2024’s presidential contest. Bennet made the claim during an interview with Sputnik as it was revealed a record high number of Russians participated in the election.

“The record turnout of the Russian people and the record landslide of Vladimir Putin… indicate the following,” said the former Army officer. “One, that the Russian people see [that] President Putin has the best hope for moving the people and culture and country forward in a prosperous, healthy, traditional way. Two, the Russian people see themselves unified in one voice, and together, oppose the violent economic, diplomatic and informational war that has been waged against them and President Putin by the West for the last 10 years.”

“And, three, the Russian people are prepared to face any challenge and realize their strength in unity is what empowers them to withstand the aggression against them,” he concluded.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240318/wests-aggression-unites-russian-people-behind-putin---ex-us-state-department-analyst--1117396141.html

 

SEE: https://yourdemocracy.net/drupal/node/43171

 

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congrats.....

by oriental review

«I would like to congratulate Vladimir Putin on his landslide victory in the elections which begin today' declared yesterday Charles Michel, the head of the European Council. He could have stopped there, it would have looked rather dignified. One of the senior representatives of the supranational union of almost all of Europe makes a noble gesture of political ethics towards one of the most influential figures in contemporary world politics. But no, that’s the fate of the grown-ups. For political pygmies like Michel, there is another role. The role of a dog barking at the caravan.

In his statement, Michel recalled the proverb according to which there would be “No opposition. No freedom. No choice" in the Russian elections. Of course, he knows better than anyone, since he was chosen by the club of heads of state and government, that is, not by residents of European states. Thus, if anyone questions the legal basis, spirit and legitimacy of elections in Russia, it is necessary to understand their historical traditions and the specifics related to the geography and geopolitics of the country.

As was said recently in a very important dialogue, we are not on a talk-show here, we are engaged in a serious conversation.

First of all, even in the times of Ancient Rus there was a tradition of electing rulers. Even before the formation of Kievan Rus, the Russian tribes invited the Varangians to rule. The practice of inviting a prince to the popular assembly also existed in the ancient cities of Novgorod and Pskov.

Later, in Russia, tsars were also elected. The first Russian tsar, according to the official title, Ivan Vasilyevich the Terrible, would leave Moscow for Alexandrov and wait there for the people to come and ask him to return to the kingdom.

Later, only in response to requests from potential subjects, Boris Godunov and Mikhail Romanov ascended the throne. Even the actual enthronement of Peter the Great took place in conditions reminiscent of an election campaign – in an active competitive struggle with the reigning sovereign, Tsareva Sophia Alekseyevna.

The phenomenon of elective monarchy played its role even after the revolution of 1905. One of the reasons for stopping the transition to a constitutional monarchy was precisely the contradiction between the supreme power of the emperor and the supreme executive power of the head of government.

Secondly, historically, in Russia, the status of head of state has always imposed on the elected official absolutely special obligations in terms of communication with subjects.

Even in the times of Kievan Rus, the princes of the Rurik dynasty maintained very special relations with the people. Even in cases where the mechanisms of Old Testament democracy did not work, princes did not stay in cities where they were not accepted. They left without waiting for the rebellion.

Ultimately, the Russian head of state feels more obliged to listen to the opinion of the people. He is more than just a democratically elected official. This is particularly evident today.

Generally speaking, Russian democracy is not a very rational phenomenon. If the initial foundations of such a state structure in Russia are understandable, the subsequent nature of the relationship between the head of state and the people seems somewhat mystical.

Western democracy is more rational and reasoned. It is based on procedure. [GUS: AND CORRUPTION]

Unfortunately, simply following the democratic procedure does not always equate to democracy in the true sense. Hitler, for example, came to power following the democratic procedure. But not through elections. He lost the election but was appointed chancellor by Reich President Paul von Hindenburg in exchange for stopping the campaign accusing the president's family of corruption.

Due process does not prevent democratically elected politicians from openly disregarding the interests and demands of their constituents around the world.

Ukrainian voters, for example, have been voting for rapprochement with Russia for three decades, but every president without exception has led them toward the West. And it’s not because Ukrainian democracy is somehow flawed. On the contrary, when Ukraine tried to follow the procedure, the West disapproved of it, but when Ukraine threw the procedure into the water, the West enthusiastically applauded it. This was the case in 2004 when Viktor Yushchenko was elected president in the third round, which was not provided for by the legislation. This was the case in 2014, when the West simply organized and financed a coup, bringing neo-Nazis to power in kyiv. This is the case today – because Zelensky's refusal to hold elections makes him absolutely illegitimate.

Today, the British continue to demand that the government focus more on their affairs than on military aid to Ukraine. But every new prime minister begins by swearing to think only of Ukraine day and night, never thinking of the British.

What conclusion can we draw from this?

Russia is undoubtedly a democratic country. Moreover, at present, in terms of democracy, it far exceeds Western countries, whose elites seem irremediably detached from their people and common sense. Yes, this democracy is different, it does not conform to Western textbooks. But ask people on the street what interests them more, design or substance. The answer is obvious.

In any European country, especially today, one can ask whether it is better for the current president to win the elections again and receive a mandate to govern the country again, or for him to elect another personality temporary who does not feel responsible for the country and who does not have the political resources necessary to implement his own program. The question again seems rhetorical. Real actions and genuine recognition of people speak for themselves better than any words on social media.

source: oriental review

https://en.reseauinternational.net/les-democrates-de-lue-sur-la-democratie-en-russie/

 

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UNFORTUNATELY, MANY WESTERN JOURNALISTS ONLY SEE THEIR CANDLE FROM THE CIA AND PENTAGON FEED....

demoocracee....

Russians have played absolutely no role in shaping the outcome of the recent Russian election, international observers say.

While an enquiry did find that Russians had interfered with the US and French elections, as well as the Brexit vote, it found no evidence to suggest that they played a role in March’s Russian poll.

https://theshovel.com.au/2018/03/19/russians-did-not-influence-outcome-of-russian-election-enquiry-finds/

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has narrowly retained office, obtaining just over two out of every two votes in the recent national elections.

It is a disappointing result for Mr Putin, who won 117% of the vote at the last election. The Russian leader also lost 80% of his opponents during the campaign.

https://theshovel.com.au/2024/03/18/russian-election-putin-scrapes-in-with-just-101-of-vote/

 

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voting independent....

Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed a landslide victory on Sunday that will keep him in power until at least 2030, following a three-day presidential election that Western critics dismissed as neither free nor fair.

The criticism is shared by Russia’s remaining independent media outlets, which have published their estimates of the extent of voter manipulation during the March 15-17 election that saw Putin clinch a fifth term in office with a record 87% of ballots cast.

Massive fraud

"Around 22 million ballots officially in favour of Vladimir Putin were falsified," said the Russian investigative journalism website Meduza, which interviewed Russian electoral analyst Ivan Shukshin.

Important Stories, another investigative news website, gave a similar number, estimating that 21.9 million false votes were cast for the incumbent president.

The opposition media outlet Novaya Gazeta Europe came up with an even bigger number, claiming that 31.6 million ballots were falsified in Putin’s favour.

That figure "corresponds to almost 50 percent of all the votes cast in the president’s favour, according to the Central Election Commission [Putin received 64.7 million votes]", said Jeff Hawn, a Russia expert at the London School of Economics.

All three estimates suggest that "fraud on a scale unprecedented in Russian electoral history" was committed, added Matthew Wyman, a specialist in Russian politics at Keele University in the UK.

The three news outlets all used the same algorithmic method to estimate the extent of voter fraud. It is named after Russian statistician Sergey Shpilkin, who developed it a decade ago.

Shpilkin’s work analysing Russian elections has won him several prestigious independent awards in Russia, including the PolitProsvet prize for electoral research awarded in 2012 by the Liberal Mission Foundation.

However, he has also made some powerful enemies by denouncing electoral fraud. In February 2023, Shpilkin was added to Russia’s list of "foreign agents".

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240320-shpilkin-method-statistical-analysis-gauges-voter-fraud-in-putin-landslide

 

THIS IS NEARLY AS CREDIBLE AS THE CORRUPTION OF THE 2020 US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS... IN WHICH UNMARKED BOXES OF mailed-in UNREGISTERED VOTERS ENDED IN FAVOUR OF JOE BIDEN IN KEY ELECTORATES...

SAY THE RUSSIAN ELECTIONS WERE CORRUPT TO THE POINT THAT ONLY 51 PER CENT OF VOTERS VOTED FOR PUTIN, HE WOULD STILL BE PRESIDENT.... BUT THE FRENCH KNOW A LOT ABOUT VOTING THE WRONG PISSANT...

THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN WAS FAIR AND CLOSE TO THE MARK: GUS LEONISKY, MATHEMATICIAN, AND POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951, HAD HIM AT 86 PER CENT. HE GOT 87+ PER CENT...

SAY, THERE WAS 1+ CORRUPTED VOTES... AS MENTIONED TO FRIENDS WHO SAID THE RUSSIANS VOTED AT GUN POINT, THE ANSWER TO THIS IS THERE WAS 80 MILLION PEOPLE WHO VOTED... SURE THERE WERE ARMED GUARDS AT VOTING BOOTHS, LIKE IN MOST WESTERN COUNTRIES, INCLUDING AUSTRALIA... WHERE NOT THE GUN WILL FORCE YOU TO VOTE BUT THE HEFTY FINE IF YOU DON'T VOTE.... VOTING IS COMPULSORY, HERE.

 

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unloved result....

 

BY Brian Berletic

 

In the wake of Russia’s 2024 elections and President Vladimir Putin’s landslide victory, the collective West has condemned the outcome as “rigged,” “stage-managed,” a “rubber-stamp presidential election,” and “pre-determined.”

Headlines range from CNN’s, “Putin extends one man-rule in Russia after stage-managed election devoid of credible opposition,” which admitted President Putin amassed 87.3% of the vote, and Politico’s, “Putin ‘wins’ rigged Russian election with 87 percent of the vote,” to the New York Times’, “With New Six-Year Term, Putin Cements Hold on Russian Leadership,” which claims, “a rubber-stamp presidential election with no real competition allows Vladimir Putin to claim strong public support for his domestic dominance and the invasion of Ukraine.” 

Omitted from all of these articles meant to portray Russian elections as a farce is the reality that Russian President Vladimir Putin is indeed an immensely popular, widely supported, and well-respected leader among the Russian public. This isn’t the conclusion of the Kremlin’s own polling, but instead conclusions drawn annually by the US government-funded polling organization, the Levada Center.

The Levada Center’s US government funding is provided via the National Endowment for Democracy (NED*), who would admit in a page on their official website titled, “Russia: Polling for Democracy, The Yuri Levada Analytical Center,” that:

The Yuri Levada Analytical Center, a NED* grantee based in Moscow, is an independent polling agency that is well-known for its surveys on sociopolitical issues both within Russia and worldwide.

According to the NED* grantee, the Levada Center, Russian President Putin’s approval rating as of February 2024 stands at 86%. This is higher than 2023 where President Putin’s approval rating was 85% and 83% in 2022.

Comparing the Levada Center’s 86% approval rating for 2024 with the recent electoral outcome, 87.3% of voters reelecting President Putin, it is clear the recent elections reflect the genuine sentiment of the Russian public as even US government-funded polling confirms. How is it then that the collective West, its governments and media, draw the conclusion that elections reflecting public sentiment are somehow “stage-managed,” “rigged,” or amount to a “rubber-stamp presidential election?”

Those making these claims never explain.

Instead, the collective West’s media claim that the exclusion of “opposition candidates” left President Putin with “no credible challenge to his rule,” as CNN claimed in its article. Such articles cite the late Alexei Navalny as “Putin’s fiercest opponent,” but had Navalny stood for elections, is there any reason to believe he would have won?

No.

The same US government-funded Levada Center has conducted numerous polls regarding the popularity (or lack thereof) of Alexei Navalny. As recently as 2023, the Levada Center determined only 9% of the Russian public “approve of Alexei Navalny’s activities,” while 57% did not, with another 23% not even knowing who Navalny is.

The Russian government did indeed jail Navalny, but not because he was a political threat to the current Russian administration. Instead, it was because he violated Russian law. Charges including those related to extremism are hardly “politically-motivated” as Navalny and his Western backers claimed. US diplomatic cables confirm at least one of Navalny’s opposition groups, “Democratic Alternative,” was funded by the US government through the NED*. A nation’s political independence is protected under international law via the UN Charter. A nation protecting itself against efforts by another nation to undermine that political independence is not “anti-democratic,” but done precisely to protect a nation’s own process of self-determination.

Ultimately, the collective West is attempting to undermine Russia’s electoral outcomes not because President Putin rigged the elections to pose as being popular when he isn’t, but precisely because the elections confirm President Putin is popular – as popular as even US government-funded polling has concluded.

And here lays bare the reality of the West’s self-appointed role as global arbiter of what is and isn’t “democratic” – democracy is a process of self-determination. Democracy in Russia means the Russian people, and the Russian people alone, determining their political future. Attempts by the US and Europe to interfere in this process isn’t “promoting freedom” as the US government’s NED*claims on its website, it is an attempt to usurp it.

The collective West doesn’t genuinely believe the Russian elections were unfair. Their own polling confirms that they were fair. The electoral outcome simply does not suit the collective West’s own interests, which include the political capture, destabilization, division, dissection, and exploitation of the Russian Federation. The louder the collective West complains about another nation’s internal political affairs, the more they implicate themselves in attempting to violate, not promote freedom, and undermine, rather than support democracy worldwide.

The best way, perhaps the only way to uphold freedom and democracy around the globe, is to expose and prevent foreign interference, not spend billions of dollars and decades carrying out such interference.

*- banned in Russia

 

https://journal-neo.su/2024/03/19/west-declares-russian-elections-undemocratic-because-it-doesnt-like-winner/

 

 

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