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1. After Elections, Is It Time For Mobilizations?

The Ministry of Defense plans to draft 300,000 soldiers to encircle Kharkiv, Ukraine, according to independent news outlet Vyorstka.

Tags: elections, draft, men, military, war in ukraine, Kharkiv
2. Election Rebellion: Paint It Green!

Russia's 2024 presidential elections kicked off with voters pouring green dye and ink into ballot boxes.

Tags: vladimir putin, dissent, politics, zelyonka, elections
3. An Unexpected Expected Announcement

President Putin announced he would seek a fifth term in office in a way that surprised some.

Tags: politics, hero of Russia, donbass, putin, elections
4. Kadyrov: A Medal for My Son

The Head of the Chechen State awarded his son a medal after he extrajudicially beat a prisoner accused of burning a Qu'ran.

Tags: chechnya, elections, law, religion, kadyrov
5. Outsmarting Smart Voting

For the first time since 2016, and the first time since the momentous constitutional changes of 2020 allowing President Putin to run for two more presidential terms, Russia has elected a new parliament.

Tags: navalny, putin, elections, democracy
6. The Road Ahead

People often ask me what lies ahead for Russia. This question always surprises me. It suggests that people think historians are part prophet, as if knowing a lot about the past means you can predict the future.

Tags: navalny, democracy, history, elections, reform
7. What's Worse: Unsympathetic Aliens or Interfering AI?

"The App Store portal: who regulates it? Artificial intelligence, people from Mars?”

– Andrei Klimov, seeking to understand what’s going on behind the scenes with Apple’s App Store on September 17.
Tags: smart voting, voting, navalny, social media, google, apple, sovereignty, duma, elections
8. A Can-ny Campaign Strategy

“Lids are very relevant seasonal paraphernalia for many. Everyone accepted the gifts, even adherents of other political views.”

– Local news from gorbatka.ru, on United Russia’s election campaign strategy.
Tags: pickle, canning, election, campaign, united russia, federal assembly, elections, duma
9. No Lazy Elections

“Video surveillance – it is not idle curiosity, for lying on the couch to watch some kind of movie. There are theaters and television for that, but this [observance of elections] is major work. If you want [to observe elections], if you are interested, an active citizen, then you’re going to need to work a bit for it.”

– Ella Pamfilova, head of Russia’s Central Election Committee, on election monitoring.
Tags: democracy, election fraud, television, broadcast, election monitoring, elections
10. Boiling Politics!

“The political field lives and evolves, it boils during election campaigns.”

– On Tuesday May 25, Press Secretary to the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov praises Russia’s political environment.
Tags: elections, peskov, politics

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