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Now, here's the funny part. It is widely speculated in the Russian part of the Internets that this fraud is not Putin's doing, but rather a frame-up for Putin'
by huhtenberg 15y ago
Now, here's the funny part.
It is widely speculated in the Russian part of the Internets that this fraud is not Putin's doing, but rather a frame-up for Putin's party aimed at stirring shit up in the country. The ruling party would've gotten what they needed without this mess, and the voting fraud is allegedly a very rough hack job that was meant to be obvious.
- VladRussian 15y agoaccording to that graph in the article http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9wJyYHagRbo/TuMibuRO59I/AAAAAAAAAMs/XNFa1uOyZkw/s1600/ven%25C3%25A4j%25C3%25A4njakaja2003 http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9wJyYHagRbo/TuMibuRO59I/AAAAAAAAAM... the same frame-up was attempted in 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, etc... It is a nice double pay scheme that is completely in the nature of the current Russian regime - to get and stay in power through election fraud and blame the fraud on the opposition at the same time.
- abcd_f 15y agoIt's not being blamed on the opposition from what I can tell, but rather quite squarely on the US that is meddling with Russia's internal affairs.
- danielharan 15y agoThen it appears the US meddling is quite extensive!
- cema 15y agoIt is widely speculated in the Russian part of the Internets [...] Not at all. This is the first time I see it proposed seriously, and I monitor the Russian internets quite closely.
- ati 15y agoI second that. If this is anti-Putin frame-up, he would be the first to investigate election fraud. Actually the opposite is the case, russian authorities repeatedly say that elections were clean and fair.
- culebron 15y agoNot at all. The majority of the people aren't that fool. I'd say you can't fool others at all: earlier or later this gets discovered. A small number of the ruling party supporters do suppose this. I guess part of them are real zealots, but there is another part that are just paid for blog & news comments. (Screenshots of announcements of such jobs were circulating recently.) Now, the problem is if we (Russians) can achieve anything with this evidence. The quality of the political opposition is very low. Most of them do fight each other more than work for the people's needs.
- antonp 15y agoHuhtenberg, care to provide a link, please?
- anghyflawn 15y agoDo you mean the head of the election commission's ridiculous claim that all the videos of ballot stuffing, multiple voting etc. were filmed in advance by the opposition? The only thing that the Russian internets do with this claim widely is ridicule.
- agrostis 15y agoYou, Sir, are Surkovite propaganda.