Yekaterina Duntsova appears to be the only candidate who is trying to get on the ballot for President of Russia, other than Vladimir Putin. This article explains that she is about to start her drive to collect 300,000 signatures.
Yekaterina Duntsova appears to be the only candidate who is trying to get on the ballot for President of Russia, other than Vladimir Putin. This article explains that she is about to start her drive to collect 300,000 signatures.
She sounds far from what I would vote for, but I would probably sign for her if asked nicely, given that she’ll probably have more difficulty in obtaining the requisite signatures than President Putin will. I wouldn’t go as far as asking anyone else to sign on her behalf, except perhaps my wife, who never engages with anything political except with my advise.
I’ve generally voted for Zhirinovsky, who I never took literally or seriously but always found entertaining. LDPR under Slutsky fails to impress, and Putin has impressed me more recently, so I expect to vote for him this time, although I never have before. In fact, I attended protests against him in 2011-2.
Both the Russian Federation and USA are many orders of magnitude too large as rational units of government, and everything to do with government, politics, and law is insanely, Kafkaesquely, Byzantinely ocercomplicated under both regimes (and all others in the world today). Even so, based on my readings here, our presidential ballot access process is at least RELATIVELY less insanely complex than yours. It would be an overstatement of fact that this is a point of national pride.
Zhirinovsky was funny. Too bad he died. He railed against Jews most of his life, then found out late in life his real father was a Jew who later moved to Israel and became a politician there. He took the news in stride.
WHEN WILL SHE DIE / DISAPPEAR / HAVE BRAIN COMA *ACCIDENT* / ETC ???
HOW MANY PUTIN SECRET POLICE WATCHING HER 24/7 — AND EVERYBODY MAKING ANY CONTACTS WITH HER ???
Very presumptuous questions. Prove your premeses.
COUNT THE MANY DEAD / MISSING PUTIN OPPONENTS SINCE 1999.
AS WITH STALIN OPPONENTS IN 1929-1953.
PURGE OF OLDE BOLSHEVIKS IN 1936-1939
MURDER OF TROTSKY IN 1940 IN MEXICO, ETC.
Not at all the same thing. You clearly have no idea how evidence and logic operate. People who ticked off some people are likely to have also ticked off others. Putin is nothing like Stalin. You’re trolling, not presenting evidence.
I recommend that everyone read the book “The Man Without a Face”, a biography of Vladimir Putin. The author, Mascha Gessen, had to flee Russia to save her life, after her book was published. Putin definitely has things in common with Joseph Stalin.
If you believe the likes of Masha Guessin, perhaps. She (now no longer identifying as she, unless that changed again) definitely has an axe to grind and a story to tell naive audiences which hunger for lurid tales, far removed from Russia itself.
Even if you believe Guessing, even he/she/it/they/? doesn’t come close to alleging anything on the scale of Stalinism, or even say Khruschev or Brezhnev. Scale matters to people who lived through such things.
For one thing, people are actually allowed to leave now. Even if they’re not Jews, and even that didn’t start until the late 1960s, and not in earnest until the 1970s.
There are many other, significant differences. Imagine writing an article like the one you did on which we are commenting in Brezhnev’s time, much less Stalin’s, among many other things. It would have been unimaginable.
The allegations that Putin has opponents murdered is lurid, but often lacks specific proof. Correlation is not causation. Maybe they also earned the enmity of organized crime, foreign sponsors they double crossed, their own supposed friends jealous of their relative prominence, or perhaps even arranged by themselves or their supposed friends to be killed for propaganda value. There could be many other explanations.
So, in lieu of some attention seeking, far from objective person’s book, concrete evidence that the supposed assassinations were ordered by Putin, much less that he’s anything like a dictator who thought nothing of killing millions, using mass starvation as a weapon, killing millions of his own troops because they had retreated or surrendered during war, killing millions more in prison camps, etc etc?
A lot of views of Putin should be tempered by what’s actually likely to happen whenever he leaves power, as opposed to what we might wish for.
My sense is its likely to be something worse, not something better, despite whatever people who drone on about “Russia without Putin” imagine.
Russia could indeed be in for much worse without Putin. The 1990s put western style liberalism or Atlanticism in great disrepute, both popular and intellectual, rightly or wrongly. Those of you who didn’t experience Russia between Gorbachev and Putin may underappreciate this greatly, if you understand it at all.
Consider the entire history of Russia, from before Czarist times to now, in imagining what might happen. Be careful of what you wish for, as you might indeed get it.
Putin is the best President Russia has had since Medvedev, if not since Yeltsin.
Duntsova doesn’t sound bad, other than on chances of winning.
I don’t think Russia has had female leader since Catherine? And she was pretty great from what we remember from school studies. Perhaps time to try how our Russia would do with woman leading in era of horseless carriages?
Women already rule Russia. Men are relegated to figurehead positions in the less exciting fields like politics, military, religion, and business. However, even there the important decisions are made behind the scenes by women in positions such as wife, mother, daughter, grandmother, granddaughter, daughter in law, mistress, secretary, advisor, deputy, and many others. Leadership is often not what it seems.
ANY 1914-1916 RASPUTIN TYPES IN 2023 RUSSIA ???
NOTE THE PUTIN IN RASPUTIN.
HOW MANY KILLER/ENSLAVER MONGOLS PLOTTING TO REPLACE PUTIN ???
ONLY RUSSIA SECRET POLICE AND USA CIA KNOW FOR SURE ???
You have quite a vivid imagination. I’ll leave you to it.
Max: not bad point, but perhaps time for woman to be figurehead also, like Catherine, but without horses? Duntsova, could it be?
We mean, we can do better than Putin, Zyuganov (soon octogenarian), Slutsky, etc? We wonder what they all have in common?
Perhaps then man can be the important person like her husband, son, father, lover, Secretary, advisor, deputy, etc?
Except perhaps she likes the woman behind the scenes too. Sometimes it is better that way, no?
AZOV,
Rasputin type was Prigozhin, but he did not make it to finish of 2023.
Mongols have not much chance to replace Putin. Mongolia very poor, small country now.
Doubtful that CIA knows anything. Russian Secret police have more immediate things to concern.
Nastyachka and Yasha,
You are my favorite tenants for a reason.
Your logic is impeccable, except, as you noted previously and correctly , chance of winning. Bring me her signature sheet if you’ll have one, and I will furnish my signature, as will Vera, if she is present. I’ll even tell her to sign for you, and only you, if I am not at home when you knock.
President Putin does not need my signature. I’m sure he doesn’t need my vote either. But to me at least, that’s a different sort of thing than mere qualifications. This time, I’m sorry, but he earned my vote.
Honestly, I think the figurehead role is more of an impediment than anything. As you know, I believe in patriarchy, so it is symbolically important for men to be the figurehead, at least in certain things.
But, that’s neither here nor there.
Far, far more important to me is scale.
What influence do I, or the two of you, have in any case over who is President of Russia? In practice, no more than over who leads America, European Union, India, China, etc.
I submit, we must cast our attention far more locally, and minimize the importance of such much more removed layers over which we individually have so little influence, to the maximum extent possible.
The most important level is – and certainly should be – the most local of all. Your exit from the elevator, after all, isn’t mine.
In my apartment and household, we have the patriarchy, and yet Vera controls the things which are really the most important, such as arrangements of furniture and what’s for dinner.
On your floor, however, Nastya can make all the decisions. Perhaps with that approach, by the time you are of the age I am now, your success will far exceed anything I’ve ever dared dream. I doubt it, but who am I? It isn’t my building level, after all, nor is it my generation . I wish you the best of luck, in any case.
You are quite adept at baking pretzels of logic.
Perhaps why your contracts benefit you so handily?
Yakov and Anastasia, where exactly is the pretzel logic , on either account? I’ve never known either of you to be intellectually lazy, whatever disagreements we may have at times.
As for business arrangement, it’s actually far more favorable to you than it could be.
I’m faithful to my wife, and under no delusions that Anastasia would find me a fitting match even if we were both free, but I enjoy observing beauty in all its many forms, even when taking care not to look directly at the sun to the point of retinal damage. And certainly, you can’t accuse me of going beyond mere observations; our hugs are no different with either of you, or what I have with far less photogenic people.
More importantly, I’m a sucker for earnest, hardworking young people like yourselves. I don’t want to bleed you of your nest egg just as it begins to accumulate. I wish you only the best, believe me.
Thus, if anything, I was overly softheaded in our contract. Intentionally so, but not to the point of earning me scolding beyond what I could bear from my own dear wife. She is after all possessed of natural female jealousy and greed, irrational as it might be, although thankfully not to the degree of many other wives.
As for my ideological, philosophical, and political musings, I bake no pretzels intentionally, and if it ever happens despite my best intents and vigilance against it, I always ask for untangling from anyone who can help me with such persistent problems.
Max, please load tongue back into mouth. Good Max.
Some knots are too difficult to untangle, which does not make them any less real.