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There were long queues at polling stations yesterday, especially in Moscow. The record holders for the queues are London and Berlin. There the queues stretched for more than 1 kilometer, the waiting time was from 3 to 5 hours.
Long queues formed at several polling stations in Moscow and other Russian cities as people took up a call from Alexei Navalny’s widow to head to the polls at noon on Sunday in a symbolic show of dissent against Vladimir Putin’s all but certain re-election as president.
Vladimir Putin humiliated as officials scramble to force recount after unexpected opponent
Russia's presidential candidate Nikolay Kharitonov triggered the recount after he secured more votes than Vladimir Putin in a Siberian district
Vladimir Putin suffered a near unexpected loss after one of his opponents came out the initial victor in the 15-17 March presidential election in a rural district.
Officials scrambled to have the result overturned through a recount after Communist Party candidate Nikolay Kharitonov appeared to receive 10 times the votes Putin did, according to local reports.
Pretty sure that comes under the dictator classification
It may take years for the rift in Russian society to weaken the regime. But, the rift is there – and Putin’s need for absolute victory shows that he is aware of it. He remembers how fast communism fell in Europe once a small chain of events created a tidal wave. He is also known to be fond of the symbolism of dates. It is tempting therefore to taunt him with this little reminder: on 17 March 1985, Romania’s brutal dictator, Nicolae Ceaușescu, was re-elected with 100% of the votes of the rubber-stamp parliament, which had in turn just been re-elected with nearly 100% of the popular vote. Four years and nine months into his term, revolution toppled his regime, and he was shot dead by his secret police.
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
originally posted by: LSU2018
a reply to: RussianTroll
Libs are gonna freak out. The American media has been painting Putin in a certain light since he said he liked Trump more than Hillary. Doesn't bother me one way or the other.
Fitting seeing as Putin is the Clinton of Russia.
He’s become insanely rich from being a “public servant”, and feels entitled to power.
Long queues formed at several polling stations in Moscow and other Russian cities as people took up a call from Alexei Navalny’s widow to head to the polls at noon on Sunday in a symbolic show of dissent against Vladimir Putin’s all but certain re-election as president.
originally posted by: RussianTroll
a reply to: bastion
Where can you see what they are checking?
They protect the lives of voters and, by the way, the journalists who filmed this from terrorist attacks. I already wrote about this in a thread.
By your logic, both King Charles and “sleeping Joe” constantly control your troops and force the spectators to wave flags at them.)))))