Posted March 2, 200817 yr So finally here're in Russia the 2008' main political event takes place - PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS!!! Only 4 persons have been chosen as suitable candidates for such an important job: 1. A. Bogdanov 2. V. Zhirinovsky 3. G. Zuganov 4. D. Medvedev According to unofficial information posted earlier Medvedev will be the next president but no1 can predict the result accurate! more info after closing the elections. btw i 've already voted! :D
March 2, 200817 yr Paul can you tell us a little about these candidates, the policies and ideas they have. Here in the UK information about the Russian presidential elections is hard to come by. Edited March 3, 200817 yr by e-motion
March 2, 200817 yr Russian election a farce, says Garry Kasparov The Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov has urged world leaders not to recognise Dmitry Medvedev as the new Russian president. Mr Kasparov, the former chess grandmaster, described today's elections as a "farce" as he delivered a 5,500-name petition to the body overseeing the vote, the Central Election Commission. "The world should not recognise the election results," he said. "This election is the imposition of Putin's successor. It is one hand-picked candidate replacing another. If the leaders of the free world accept Medvedev they will be approving and giving credibility to this farce." He added that he feared a violent crackdown on an unsanctioned "dissenters' march" planned in Moscow tomorrow. Today's officially approved challengers to Mr Medvedev are the Communist leader Gennady Zyganov, a 63-year-old former physics teacher; the Right-wing nationalist, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, 61, who heads the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia; and the little-known Andrei Bogdanov, 38, the head of Russia's Grand Masonic lodge and widely considered a Kremlin stooge. The small but vocal anti-Kremlin coalition, The Other Russia, plans post-election protest marches tomorrow in cities across the country, despite an official ban in the capital. Mr Kasparov, who was beaten and arrested during a similar unsanctioned protest in Moscow in December, said activists would not be deterred. Source : Sunday Telegraph
March 2, 200817 yr "Meet the new boss same as the old boss" That lyric is very fitting for this situation Putin will still be pulling the strings
March 2, 200817 yr Author Putin is gonna be the new premier with Medvedev as the president so that means the same party is in power for 4 years at least! It seems we are gonna have this situation for quite a long time! e-motion: tbh i can't express their ideas so quickly just cause i started to have interest in politics recently but i surely will post info! according to exit-polls: candidate #1: 2% #2: 12% #3: 16% #4: 70%
March 2, 200817 yr Oh dear, there are no free elections in Russia. You will have 4 candidates, the one that everyone is supposed to vote and three that are told by Kremlin what to say and do and act as an "opposition". The real opposition is being murdered, fleeing the coutry, being jailed, or being beaten. There is no real democracy in Russia. But then the US and EU supports same kinda flawed elections in many African states etc so it is not like the Western nations have any real right to b**ch about Russian elections while same time supporting Kenyan etc elections and Chinese government.
March 3, 200817 yr Author The results of 7 a.m.: #1: 1.3% #2: 9.5% #3: 19.5% #4: 70.7% these are approximate. JackJones: Yeah it looks like we're having one party political system and opposition has really NO chances for becoming the main force! lil more and we will have Soviet Union again but a modern version of it!! :lol: :o
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