Russia Ukraine war

Originally posted by 822-190: ↑

"Russia is also a democracy..."

Only in your vodka-induced dreams!

Like prior elections in Russia, the election was notfree and fair.^[2]^[15]^[16]Multiple episodes ofballot-stuffing, forced voting, and other irregularities were recorded.^[17]^[2]^[15]^[16]^[18]Putin's administration and the ruling United Russia party used amanaged democracyapproach to keep an appearance of political pluralism.^[19]^[20]The election was marred by nation's most prominentoppositionleaders (particularly those associated with jailed opposition leaderAlexei Navalny) and figures being excluded from ballot, imprisoned or exiled in months coming before the election.^[21]^[22]Authorities also designated various independent media outlets and non-governmental organisations as "foreign agents", including the independent election monitorGolos.^[21]^[23]^[24]TheOrganization for Security and Co-operation in Europe(OSCE) also said that it would not send observers for the first time since 1993 due to "major limitations" imposed by Russian authorities.^{[25]
The election was marred by widespread accusations of fraud.The introduction of remoteelectronic votingin several regions was also criticized by the opposition, who alleged widespread vote-rigging, especially inMoscow,^[28]^[2]^[29]^[30]with the Communist Party refusing to recognize the results of electronic voting in Moscow.^[31]As a result, opposition candidates have sought to annul the electronic voting results by legal means.^[2]^[32]^[33]^[34]In response to the election results,protestswere held.^[35]Statisticians have attributed the results to mass fraud.^[36]}

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Yes, Russia experiences more democracy in OTHER COUNTRIES than it does within it's borders. And still Sergei always looks like someone just ran over his dog

" As part of NATO Allies' commitment to transparency, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania host Russian arms control inspectors. In Estonia, for instance, Russian inspectors recently conducted a Vienna Document Inspection, observing parts of exercise Spring Storm in May and June 2021."

Do NATO personnel get to go into Russia and inspect it's weaponry? BWAHAHAHA yeh, right..