That he will win them is indeed obvious. Since there have not been fair elections in Russia for quite some time, one cannot expect these to be fair.

There it is folks.

It would be a “technical violation” of constitution, which apparently is not a crime.

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He has achieved conservatism's natural final form of "leadership".

I think at this point he knows that he can do fuck all without any Russian uprising.

“Our presidential election is not really democracy [...]"

Well, duh!

Russian President Vladimir Putin can choose not to hold presidential elections next year because he will “obviously” win re-election, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said late Sunday.

I agree, why even bother?

If the russian population is eating the bullshit thrown before them, why hold elections... Save yourself the hassle and stop pretend to be a democracy.

And yeah, I imagine the TRUMP-MAGA-GOP is cumming right in their pants without even touching when Putin actually just calls of the elections.

Putin is widely expected to declare his bid for a sixth overall presidential term.

Oh, his "bid"? Is he gonna roll those dice one more time? See if he breaks lucky?

At least he should pretend to get the 101% of the votes

Too lazy

So, what happened with not serving more than 2 consecutive terms in Russia? Was it already removed?

Well, in 2020 he did make it law that he was dictator for life. So, what's the point of going through the motions anymore?

Don't feel bad for the Russian people.

They deserve this shit for putting up with this year after year as they could clearly see him grabbing more and more power. If they revolted against him 10 or even 15 years ago when he had a fraction of the power that he does now, it never would have gotten so bad and this pointless war in Ukraine might have never happened.

That shithole is nothing but a Potemkin country.

He's afraid Prigozhin will run.

Ahh, I see Russia is playing Tropico in real life

all the manpower they would use to rig the elections is lying in ditches in Ukraine

When was the last time they actually held a real election???

We’ll when you jailed your political rival for 10 years why have one?

I'm actually curious how open and fair elections would play out in Russia. I think he would probably still win comfortably if only for the limited amount of information a lot of Russians get. Hell, apparently even toilets are a luxury there.

Republican party leadership like

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