Russland ist bereit, nur einen Antikriegskandidaten von der Präsidentschaftswahl auszuschließen

by I-Might-Be-Something

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  1. So the Kremlin seems to be surprised as to how much support Nadezhdin has received and sees this election as a referendum on the war, but if Nadezhdin gets a sizable amount of votes, it will undermine the Kremlin’s position that the war is supported universally in Russia.

  3. For a country that doesn’t even have fair elections, and who would effortlessly discard votes in favor for the desired outcome……who cares who runs? Seems like a non-threat

  4. Him coming out of this with his life would be a miracle. Truly a courageous man

  6. I expect Nadezhdin will urge everyone to transfer their vote to Davankov instead. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter who gets the vote, as long as it isn’t Putin.

    For the obligatory condescending comments about thinking Russia has fair elections – vote rigging isn’t magic. Russia being corrupt and autocratic doesn’t change the fact that the bureaucracy is very legalistic and even cumbersome (as anyone who has ever had to work with Russian bureaucracy knows first-hand!). They use all sorts of tactics for vote-rigging like using dead identities, forcing state employees to vote, etc., and nowadays with electronic voting it is easier to get up to shenanigans. That said, as fun as the memes are, Putin doesn’t just get 1500% (64% and 77% for 2012 and 2018 respectively).

    At the end of the day, none of us here in Russia ever expected Nadezhdin to win the presidency. That’s not what this is about.

    This is about the surprise of finding out that the number of us who didn’t like or support the war is more than we thought. We’ve been so crushed by the apathy and hopelessness that we started to believe what the Kremlin says, what the world says about us – everyone in this country doesn’t care or wants to kill everyone, we are all brainless aninals. Hearing this message for years and years makes it hard not to believe, and makes it hard to find a reason to even try.

    But then we see crowds of people queuing to sign Nadezhdin’s charter while Putin’s stalls sit empty. Donations for Nadezhdin reached nearly 10 million in the first hours while Putin’s campaign scraped a few hundred thousand.

    Putin isn’t afraid of losing the election. That goes without saying. Putin is afraid of Russians realizing that they aren’t hopeless and alone. He is afraid of what financially hurting oligarchs, a broken military, and a security service on the verge of watching their country collapse does to an autocrat who no longer has support from his people.

  7. Interesting how all the candidates are ineligible because of technicalities, not suspicious at all.

  8. I’m sure useful idiot tucker will conveniently forget to bring this up in his upcoming interview…

  9. Hmmm, still no rissian redditors that were claiming that voting for Nadezhin means a lot and is a way of true protest lol

    No candidate, no protest. How sad. 

    I bet putin has already made a record for his 2025 New years speech. 

  10. All these “strong men” never fail to reveal themselves to be weak as fuck.

  11. I wonder what the population will think about the fact that they wanted to vote antiwar candidate but government said “no that’s not allowed in our fair democracy”. Of course they can’t say anything about it unless they wanna end up in jail or the frontline.

  12. Is Washington Post so naive? There is no presidential race in Russia.

  15. And by “bar” they mean he will beg for Putin’s mercy as KGB agents shove a crowbar up his ass.

  16. And the Russian people will hear this news, accept it, and happily lick Putin’s boots ever after.

    Sad.

  17. Authoritarian dictatorship. The MAGA dream with the Mango Mussolini.

  18. I don’t follow Russian elections. I tried, then the blonde hair women, they found flaws on her paperwork and did a test to find drugs in her system. It came back negative.
    Anyone that runs or tries to run, I always read comments, “They’re just making like there democracy is there.”
    “It’s a fair election,”
    “You know who’s gonna win!”
    There is too much to follow…
    For what?

  19. I’m sure that Tucker Carlson will get answers and maybe about fate of Navalny as well .

  20. Of course they will. The guy probably hasn’t got a snowballs chance actually winning, but it would be bad PR for Sauron’s war against Ukraine.

  21. How long until Republicans compare this to efforts to keep Trump off the ballot?

  24. Honestly, I’m more surprised he hasn’t fallout out a first floor window to this death.

  25. All my Republican friends tell me Russia is more democratic than the US.

  26. Yeah, that he survived long enough to try to run is… impressive.

  27. That seems so unfair to ban a candidate from running for office, we would never do anything like that he…never mind

  28. I’m sure Nadezhdin can build on this. As they say in Russia, when one door closes, another window opens. Usually on the fifth floor or above.

  29. trump’s hero putin will either murder him or send him to siberia. and fox news and maga nation will be appalled. jk

  30. Trump Like, hey, that’s a good idea! I think I found a new friend.

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