Politics and Government of Russia

I do like this idea as Stalingrad was such a huge moment in modern history.

"Back to Stalingrad? Disputed poll claims TWO THIRDS of Russians want Volgograd to return to name used during legendary WW2 battle"

https://www.rt.com/russia/530664-stalingrad-name-restoring-poll/

https://www.rt.com/russia/531473-navalny-ally-sobol-leaves-country/

I know Flaming Python will be sad but his hero's under Navalny like Sobol was found guilty and she fled the country. Not surprising. Wonder if some people here will be worried if it will hurt business prospects or what not in Russia now?

miketheterrible wrote:https://www.rt.com/russia/531473-navalny-ally-sobol-leaves-country/

I know Flaming Python will be sad but his hero's under Navalny like Sobol was found guilty and she fled the country.  Not surprising.  Wonder if some people here will be worried if it will hurt business prospects or what not in Russia now?

Why the hell would I be sorry?

She broke the law and tried to overthrow the government. Which is potentially justifiable, if you had a good idea with what to replace it with and the competence to actually do it. But the whole Navalny crew are just a bunch of liberasts and Western media darlings so clearly their ideas are no good.

You see when people break the law and this fact is public for all to see, then that's a rather different matter than that shit-show with the American investor.

I'd also add that that guy didn't leave the country even when he released from house arrest, whereas this bitch was on the first plane to Rome.

Nothing was shitshow about the American and the case. You just think it was.

miketheterrible wrote:Nothing was shitshow about the American and the case. You just think it was.

The things that ultimately matter are the consequences.
If there are honestly none and everyone else thinks the same as you, all the outside investors and business partners, that the guy was a member of the Atlantic Council and clearly evidently guilty of whatever the courts accused him and his partners of, and that there's no way that executive power in Russia has any control over the courts so clearly there could have been no political considerations involved in the case - well in that case I will concede the point to you.

Russian liberals hoped for an anti-Putin street revolution. They now may be realizing that they wasted years on a doomed strategy


https://www.rt.com/russia/531608-russian-liberals-pastukhov-article-putinism/

franco wrote:Russian liberals hoped for an anti-Putin street revolution. They now may be realizing that they wasted years on a doomed strategy


https://www.rt.com/russia/531608-russian-liberals-pastukhov-article-putinism/

They have always been higher functioning autistics.

kvs wrote:

franco wrote:Russian liberals hoped for an anti-Putin street revolution. They now may be realizing that they wasted years on a doomed strategy


https://www.rt.com/russia/531608-russian-liberals-pastukhov-article-putinism/

They have always been higher functioning autistics.

Never met a class of people more compensatory in their inferiority than the Russian intelligentsia.

The 'Dozhd' TV channel has been registered as a foreign agent.

This is clearly a long delayed and necessary response since this outfit is operating on foreign money and is
not functioning on ad revenue. It would have bankrupted a long time ago if not for foreign meddling.
Bankruptcy is a natural and healthy process for removing dysfunctional companies.

Naturally, there are shrieks from both inside and outside Russia what a great crime of oppression this registration
is. These same clowns (including Amnesty International, etc.) have nothing to say about the Kiev regime shutting
down opposition media and bloggers.

Russia is going to require all work migrants from abroad to carry a biometric card with a chip and photograph.

This news has caused so-called representatives of such migrants on Russian soil to start wailing about discrimination.
They demand that Russians be "chipped" first. That's some fine hater chutzpah for you. These clowns come to
Russia voluntarily for money and have the gall to resent it for proper tracking of foreigners. They actually think that
they have more or equal rights to Russians. What utter scumbaggery. These biometric cards will not be scanning
your iPhone or censoring your Youtube posts you fecking clowns. Bugger on off to the NATzO west to enjoy your
mythical rights.

This is clearly an attempt to leverage western woke politics in Russia.

The Russian MSM is infested with compradors. Here we have an example of how they twist information to work over the
Russian public to undermine Russian stability. The sanctions shock in 2014 produced a one-off transient 445 billion ruble loss
that occurred before the end of 2015. There is no annual loss accumulating since then. Such an adjustment transient is
to be expected, the ruble devaluation likely played a major role in it and there was an associated recession in 2015.

However, the MSM, in particular, Kommersant, makes a convenient "mistake" and gives the consumer an impression that Russia
is losing 450 billion rubles every year since 2014 because of sanctions. The outright 5th column alt-media such as Meduza and
Snob run with this BS to push their sedition narratives about how the Russian government is screwing over the Russian people.
Recall that these same "NGO" outfits push the narrative that the 1990s were a golden era. The Orwellian doublethink is mind
numbing. The Russian people were screwed and hard during the 1990s. It is the "ebil Putler regime" that has not only
restored their standard of living it has pushed it much higher than it was before 1990 and especially before 1999. It is those
same Russian people that vote "ebil Putler" into power over and over, because they know he delivers. The 5th column is
trying to work over enough idiot malcontents to create strife.

The woman shown in the video and trotted out by Kommersant is a shill that pushes specific talking points:

1) Only foreign investments can help Russia get off the oil needle.

2) Russia has a severe case of Dutch disease.

Neither of these talking points has any relation to reality. We have discussed the oil needle BS many times. The Dutch disease
pertains to GDP growth concentrated in one sector at the expense of others. For example resource exports versus manufacturing,
agriculture, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease

How are Russian oil and gas exports which account for less than 10% of its GDP crowding out other sectors? After 2014, Russian
agriculture has experienced a boom with small farmers and food producers sprouting like mushrooms. For example fine Italian cheese
makers who make demonstrably high quality products. Import substitution has stimulated Russian manufacturing. Every dollar
of import reduction translates into two dollars of GDP increase.

The 2014 sanctions spasm of the NATzO west has been a boon for Russia. It has helped it unplug and flush away the distortions
introduced during the 1990s "golden era". This includes removing its dependence on food imports from NATzO and elsewhere.
As well as other goods from electronics to machinery.

Kommersant needs to be offshored. It is engaging in sedition.

BTW, the sedition propaganda pattern applied in Russia is exactly the same one as used to discredit climate change science.
Exxon, Koch brothers, or whatnot pay for some "research" published in an low impact and shady journal that lacks proper review
standards and then this study is endlessly cited by the shill media to spread FUD including the lie that science is not certain on the
processes and risk of global warming.

Russia experienced a Golden Era in the 90's?!

Does Kommersant have any serious traction in Russia?

Mir wrote:Russia experienced a Golden Era in the 90's?!

Does Kommersant have any serious traction in Russia?

The mantra of Navalny and other NATzO sycophants in Russia was exactly that the 1990s were heady days of freedom
and the golden era. Most sane Russians who were not born after 1999 know that they were a gangster's paradise with
economic decline worse than WWII. The 1990s depression in Russia makes the US great depression of the 1930s look
like a recession.

Kommersant clearly is tainted by its former ownership by Boris Berezovsky, one of those "golden era" gangster oligarchs
who has a hundreds of deaths to his name. Of course he was not pursued by the rotten judicial system for these crimes
like he should have during the 1990s. But this is just like the 1930s rot in the USA and Al Capone.

Kommersant is not a marginal rag that nobody knows about. It has enough weight to be significant. So its sedition activity
is not something to be fobbed off.

Well it was certainly a "golden era" for those that plundered Russia - I am pretty sure they really miss the good times they had back then

Mir wrote:Well it was certainly a "golden era" for those that plundered Russia - I am pretty sure they really miss the good times they had back then

The chutzpah of Navalny and the rest of these sycophant clowns is over the top. It comes naturally for them to call Russian voters
"bydlo" (animal chattel) since they dare not vote for the parties that serve their agendas. Apparently, democracy means being told
who to vote for. I would say that the Russian voters are more intelligent than the sycophants who deride them.

George1 wrote:Five parties enter State Duma with 10% of protocols counted — CEC

MOSCOW, September 10. /TASS/. United Russia, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), the A Just Russia - For Truth party and the New People party have cleared the five-percent threshold needed to make it into the State Duma (lower house), according to data from the Central Election Commission.

United Russia has gained 38.85% of the vote,
the Communist Party received 24.94%,
LDPR got 9.57%,
New People garnered 7.83%
and A Just Russia - For Truth gained 6.75%.

https://tass.com/politics/1339685

seems about right. Surprised communists gained more. Figured LDPR would have jumped more.

George1 wrote:

miketheterrible wrote:

George1 wrote:Five parties enter State Duma with 10% of protocols counted — CEC

MOSCOW, September 10. /TASS/. United Russia, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), the A Just Russia - For Truth party and the New People party have cleared the five-percent threshold needed to make it into the State Duma (lower house), according to data from the Central Election Commission.

United Russia has gained 38.85% of the vote,
the Communist Party received 24.94%,
LDPR got 9.57%,
New People garnered 7.83%
and A Just Russia - For Truth gained 6.75%.

https://tass.com/politics/1339685

seems about right.  Surprised communists gained more.  Figured LDPR would have jumped more.

vote towards the restoration of USSR?

I hope not. I think its a mix of older people and very young. Much older who remember USSR and the young who dont realize the mess it created afterwards.

There was a state-created spoiler party for the communists (actually 2). One gained something like 1.5% and the other nearly made the 3% threshold.
So that's already 4-4.5% votes lost for the communists

Plus the usual mess in the Caucasus I assume (haven't checked), with 99% of Chechnya voting for United Russia or whatever (typically it's a similar situation in Dagestan and a couple others). And of course they all vote, apparently. So another huge amount of votes (relative to the low turnout country-wide) that shouldn't count but do, and all in favour of United Russia.

And I presume the ruling party/class angles the counting of votes within believable bounds as well. There are always scandals with some girls bringing in 100 random votes out of nowhere and depositing them into the ballot boxes or adding them afterwards, or whatever.

A farce in other words. The KPRF should be polling more at 30-35%, while most people I know don't bother voting in this whole charade anymore. I think I'm the only guy who still does

BTW the 'New People' party is another spoiler one the rulers created, only this time for liberals. And it seems it worked quite well.
Well that's useful at least. When I was at my polling station I noticed the Yabloko party's candidate was a dude with blue hair; looked like a member of the 'creative class' and quite possibly of a non-traditional sexual orientation as well. Typical.
I don't actually imagine what a systemic-opposition liberal would actually be like though, given that the whole liberal idea is essentially to act as an intermediary between foreign capital and your own country's population and profit off that. Accepting funds and support from the West is not only their modus operandi, but their reason de etre.

Russia is long overdue for good old Operation Condor

Swell! Just like bombing the Kremlin, "suiciding" VVP at point-blank, death-squads and "missing" victims, mass torture and closing diplomatic relations with China, Cuba and Venezuela. Similarly, as Kissinger, Rabin and Bombama got the Nobel, let's propose PD!

miketheterrible wrote:
seems about right.  Surprised communists gained more.  Figured LDPR would have jumped more.

The LDPR revealed itself during the Khabarovsk protests when it was used by the government to send in a loyal candidate in place of Furgal who was arrested.
It functioned exactly as the ruling class's lapdog, not that anyone really had any doubts before.

I'm surprised they didn't lose more. But then again the whole system is rigged

Speaking of Khabarovsk, said loyal candidate sent in to replace Furgal when the entire city was out protesting against him and the arrest just last year, has won a resounding victory in the gubernatorial elections there. Hmm, likely story