Brave Russians say NO to 'vote Vlad'

Brave Russians say NO to 'vote Vlad': Election booths are vandalised and set on fire, ballot boxes filled with dye and polling stations attacked with fireworks as citizens REFUSE to back Putin
Russian citizens have conducted a string of explosive protests in defiance of a presidential election rigged in favour of Vladimir Putin as voting opened on Friday.

Video purported to show a woman dousing a Moscow voting booth in flammable liquid before setting it on fire and recording the drama on her smartphone.

The fire was promptly extinguished and the woman detained, according to local media. But similar acts of vandalism continued around the country, with a voter setting a ballot box alight in Khanty Mansi region in Siberia.

Brave Russians say NO to 'vote Vlad'

Russian police detained at least eight people Friday for acts of vandalism at polling stations on the first day of voting in presidential elections, officials said.

And an explosive device was detonated at a polling station in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine but caused no deaths.

'In Skadovsk, an improvised explosive device was planted in a rubbish bin in front of a polling station. It detonated. There are no casualties or injuries,' Moscow's electoral commission in the occupied Kherson region said.

Russia has enforced voting in occupied parts of Ukraine, drawing ire from Putin-opposed residents.

I know many members will find this news interesting, and make their own judgement on what they think of 'voting' in Russia.
Do we think any of this will be a fair vote?
Do members think voting in any election is fair and honest these days?
Our systems of democracy and voting might have be tarnished in recent years, but do members really think that the west has got it as bad as Russian where the Kremlin banned two politicians from the ballot who sought to run on an antiwar agenda and many others have turned up dead or have been arrested?

a reply to: Kurokage

Vive la resistance.

originally posted by: Kurokage
Do we think any of this will be a fair vote?

As was said elsewhere today .... Putin will win 110% of the vote.

a reply to: gortex

It does look like some Russians are upset with the Russian government, and are showing their displeasure at the polling stations, which must be very risky.

I just hope that all the booths are on the ground floor and no body 'accidentally' falls out a window!!

a reply to: Kurokage



Ummm...those people do kinda remind me of the democrats...

Oh yeah...cant beat them at the polls...so set the polling station on fire...


Figures some here would approve...

What are they afraid of...losing...?

Doesn't seem as if they wish to respect how their neighbors chose to cast their vote...almost as if they believe that their voice...or vote...are the only ones that matter...

I guess that's how...democracy works...just loot and burn and intimidate...


The real meat of the matter...is how they want their special voices to be heard...yet by their actions they deny the voices of those they don't agree with...

Typical...



YouSir

Disrupting, burning and vandalizing people’s voting?

Um yeah. That’ll a sure way not to start pissing the voters off lol

a reply to: YouSir

Are we pretending Russia is a democracy?

a reply to: Kurokage

The spirit of Alexei Navalny lives on with his supporters , his murder will not stop the movement for change he started it will just inspire those who want freedom from autocracy to follow his lead by taking direct action where they can.

I salute the brave Russians willing to make a stand.

a reply to: YouSir

Point is, they have no chance of beating Putin as his serious opposition are either in prison, in exile or dead.

What choices do they have?

a reply to: Imhere

The voters are already.....a tad, disgruntled?

a reply to: YouSir

Do they have voices in Russia? is it a fair open system of democracy? I think here in the west, it's a little bit fairer I suppose but I know you won't agree with that.

a reply to: FlyersFan

Only 110%?!!!

a reply to: gortex

Resistance...is habit forming?

Up the rebels!

originally posted by: BedevereTheWise
a reply to: YouSir

Are we pretending Russia is a democracy?

Ummm...

Are we pretending...that any western nations...are democracies...?

Seems to me that we have the US...and then all of it's European and those few others across the Pacific...vassal states...

I mean...do you really consider the EU...a democracy...?



YouSir

originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: Kurokage

The spirit of Alexei Navalny lives on with his supporters , his murder will not stop the movement for change he started it will just inspire those who want freedom from autocracy to follow his lead by taking direct action where they can.

I salute the brave Russians willing to make a stand.

Yeah, Alexei Navalny deaths seems to have started something and I think Putin may have made a martyr out of his political enemy instead of silencing him.

a reply to: Kurokage

It is quite unbelievable that anyone might think that this sham of an election is somehow democracy in action.

originally posted by: YouSir

originally posted by: BedevereTheWise
a reply to: YouSir

Are we pretending Russia is a democracy?

Ummm...

Are we pretending...that any western nations...are democracies...?

Seems to me that we have the US...and then all of it's European and those few others across the Pacific...vassal states...

I mean...do you really consider the EU...a democracy...?

YouSir

Compared to Russia? Absolutely.

a reply to: YouSir

No. That's why we left the EU.:duh

originally posted by: Kurokage
a reply to: YouSir

Do they have voices in Russia? is it a fair open system of democracy? I think here in the west, it's a little bit fairer I suppose but I know you won't agree with that.

Ummm...are you stating that laboring under your illusion of democracy...is somehow more relevant...or legitimate...than any other illusion...?

Besides...I live in the illusion of a Constitutional Republic...fast becoming a socialist mecca...


So...there is that...



YouSir

a reply to: YouSir

Are we pretending...that any western nations...are democracies...?

Seems to me that we have the US...and then all of it's European and those few others across the Pacific...vassal states...

That maybe your opinion but it's not fact my friend. Great Britain may not be perfect but it's by no means a vassel state and I imagine many European countries would say the same.
We had something called Brexit to leave a lot of the European Bureaucracy behind, something voted for, against what the then government wanted...
Russians and the people of stolen lands can only vandalised booths, as they have no one in oposition to vote for.