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    The commission said 29 people have so far filed to run for the presidency. But after today’s decision, Mr Putin remains the only candidate to be able to register as a candidate.

    Not just this anti-war candidate. It appears all candidates are banned from challenging Putin.

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      Did people really think a dictator would let a silly thing like an election get in the way of his ambition for power? It’s hilarious that people thought Putin would give up his power without violence. The only way Putin will ever leave power is through violence. Look at those gigantic tables he sits at. Putin knows how “popular” he is, even in his own country.

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        Everyone assumed as much. But there is now confirmation that the next election won’t be free. It’s important to be able to point to specific actions and behavior when saying Russia isn’t a free country.

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      The people in Russia have no legal way to challenge their government. Thanks, USSR.

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          They ran a shitty corrupt government, tried to conquer eastern Europe, failed, renamed themselves to “Russian Federation”, and are now trying to recapture lost states while feeding people into a never ending meat grinder.

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              Putin is desperate to restore Russia to its former USSR glory. That’s why he wants Ukraine so badly.

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            I feel like, if the USSR is to blame for modern Russia, then Tsarist Russia shares some of the blame as well

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            renamed themselves to “Russian Federation”,

            By this logic the Roman empire should just be called the Roman republic. The systems of governance might be similar and both be abhorrent, but the USSR isn’t the same as the Russian federation

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            tried to conquer eastern Europe, failed

            How so if it was indeed occupied for years?

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                But that was never the subject of the discussion. The USSR, and the Russian Empire before it, did successfully conquer Eastern Europe. That’s a historical fact. Whether you agree that this conquest made that land rightfully theirs is another topic, in which I have no interest.

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    What a coincidence, here in the US we banned all our anti-war candidates from the presidential election too! (Yes, I know dnc primary candidates aren’t literally and legally banned).

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          The US hasn’t banned anri-war candidates like the Kremlin has, that’s ridiculous nonsense. Stop spreading propaganda.

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            I see you only read one out of the two sentences I wrote above. I addressed this in the second sentence which was in parentheses because I predicted that my comment might be confusing to some. To be fair, my comment did assume some knowledge regarding the 2024 DNC primary which has been structured in such a way that no candidate but Biden, a pro-war candidate, could possibly win. Hope this helps.

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            Your electorate college and two party vote system only allows two candidates each time

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    The presidential election, which will be held in March 2024, is Russia’s first since President Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly two years ago.

    The head of Russia’s electoral commission, Ella Pamfilova, said Ms Duntsova would not be allowed to progress to the next stage of gathering thousands of supporters’ signatures.

    At the time, she told the Reuters news agency: “Any sane person taking this step would be afraid - but fear must not win.”

    Moscow has sidelined opposition figures for years, and President Putin is expected to win in March; the Kremlin claims he enjoys genuine support among Russians.

    In November, a nationalist pro-war blogger who had fiercely criticised Russia’s military strategy in Ukraine, said he wanted to challenge Putin and disrupt the “sham” poll.

    Mr Putin recently showed a rare example of caving in to popular pressure - by cutting the cost of buying chicken and eggs.


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    See here in your application you made errors. For example in the first field where it says “Name”, you didn’t write “Putin”. That is not allowed.