BrikoX@lemmy.zipM to Interesting Global News@lemmy.zipEnglish · 9 months agoMoscow bars pro-peace candidate from running in presidential electionwww.euronews.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareAlteon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoMoscow just bans any candidate that could threaten Putin’s reign.
minus-squaregloriousspearfish@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 months agoI cannot understand why they even bother to do the elections at all. It is just for show, and everybody know it. Why not just skip it completely?
minus-squarelittleblue✨@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·9 months agoThe same reason the US still likes to refer to itself as a democracy. Theater.
Moscow just bans any candidate that could threaten Putin’s reign.
I cannot understand why they even bother to do the elections at all. It is just for show, and everybody know it. Why not just skip it completely?
The same reason the US still likes to refer to itself as a democracy. Theater.