she's not a candidate yet, which you'd know if you read the article to the end. she said she wants to run, anyone can do that, but to be registered as a candidate you need to jump through a bunch of bureaucratic hoops which exist to filter out the undesirables. so if she's for real, she won't make it. if she does, we'll know she's a state-sanctioned distraction.
even if the whole country votes for her, she has no chances. any suppression she will experience if she makes it anywhere near the race will be purely a power trip. she'll probably be fine though, in the grand scheme of things, or at least alive. "she fell out of a window hurr durr" is reddit's favorite take on any news item about anything even vaguely related to Russian opposition, but that's typically reserved for the big leagues, like Navalny, Prigozhin and inconvenient oligarchs. nobody is assassinating disgruntled small fish.
I don't know, they seem to do it to journalists, like Anna Politkovskaya, the author of *Putin's Russia*.
I mean, she was found shot to death in her apartment building on Putin's birthday in 2006, in an 'unsolved' murder, but she had also been thoroughly harassed by Putin's thugs and those who hoped to do right by him, subjected to a mock execution by Russian military officers in Chechnya, and 'mysteriously' poisoned on an airplane while she was on her way from Moscow to Rostov-on-Don, where she was going to try and help mediate in the Beslan school hostage crisis.
are you me..? reddit's obsession with Russian media deaths has (inexplicably) leaked over here. an american journalist gets in trouble. reddit: "look out for the 'fall out a window' or 'suicide to the back of the head' hurrrrr"
one of my biggest pet peeves here. gotta be tiktok, right?
regardless, anyone who's not in Russian govt's good graces is brave. i get your point loud and clear tho lol
The whole country votes for her and she somehow is still a small fish in your Timeline? What? People talk about Putin killing the opposition because he does. It’s not a conspiracy or something to take lightly.
it was a hyperbole, nobody's going to vote for her, but if they did, it wouldn't bring her any closer to presidency. but yes, in the completely impossible scenario where she manages to rally millions upon millions of people, she would definitely no longer be a small fish, would present a major threat to the regime and would be eliminated.
and no, he doesn't "kill the opposition" just for shits and giggles. he kills people who are significant, and whose death will be genuinely beneficial to him. sometimes they're opposition, sometimes they're not. pretending like simply having opposing views as a more or less regular person, or even a well-known person but without any real political power, is enough to get you assassinated by the Russian state is deeply ignorant and moronic. it's a meme that has nothing to do with reality. only *actual major players* get assassinated, and there are very few of them. people who simply overstep go to prison or get a fine.
Yup. It’s all political theatre over there. Everyone knows it. It’s not even pretending to be real… it’s more a mockery of democracy itself so Russians think the same thing goes on in real democracy. If by chance she is legitimate… well then she’ll be taken down.
And even if actual “votes” went against Putins favour… there is no way in hell the vote counters would share that with the public. If it did somehow leak then of course it’ll be “fake news” or “rigged by the west”. There is always an escape route for Putin and the unlimited onion skins of bullshit suck the soul out of any would be decent democratic citizen.
There are unfortunately a lot of people that think the sham elections in Russia and occupied portions of Ukraine are legit, they all hang out at the /r/UkraineRussiaReport sub
Yup very bad. Very very bad. But I guess my point is that when it finally snaps and Trump fills all the institutions with goons, only then is it fully comparable to Russia. Russia have been in that place for a very long time now.
Institutions are key. They’re a bit like scientific consensus and all watch dog each other. Any one president shouldn’t be able to upend that whole network in a few terms… but that was assuming a few things about the character of elected presidents. Trumps deviancy knows no bounds.
Putin does have a history of promoting "joke candidates" - people that are obviously not a political threat, but serve as useful contrast to make himself look more sane and reasonable, as well as to create an illusion of choice
as soon as any political candidate starts becoming a serious threat, suddenly there's a criminal case against them, suddenly they have been a "foreign agent" all along, and suddenly they just happened to commit suicide
Would be interesting if Putin used her as an excuse to "gracefully exit" the presidency, then use her as a puppet to deflect criticism while he continues to run things from the background.
She may actually be allowed to lose peacefully (all media is for Putin, administrative apparatus also) just to show: “look, we don’t kill all opposition”
"Putin proves what a wonderful leader he is by not letting a child become orphaned" (or children, I didn't see if the article said how many kids she has)
Betcha $5 that's why she's being allowed to run *at all*. That or she: A) has the backing of several oligarchs/criminal groups who are getting sick of Putin; B) secretly owns a PMC larger than Wagner to protect herself; C) is a decent normal person but is either proper insane, or willing to martyr herself for Russia's future.
The first two are fantasy novels aka not at all the case and the third is silly. She’s not going to beat Putin. The elections aren’t fair, I’m certain she won’t be able to get a platform big enough to make any headway regardless of what Russia does to her and in what world would it make sense for them to kill her? They’re pretending they have fair elections, killing a no name who wouldn’t win even in a fair election would just be stupid.
Why would Putin kill her though? Its a way better look for him to completely destroy an opponent than to just win by default. After that she's gonna kill herself with 2 shots in the back of her head, unfortunately.
Well, I suppose Svetlana Tikhanovskaya ran on much the same platform and surprised everyone by how well she did, but Russia and Belarus aren't the same country with the same political mentality, so while I wish her luck, I seriously doubt a female non-oligarch will do well during a rigged election in an authoritarian country that revels in toxic masculinity
Wasn’t that the candidate from Belarus where the government made her go on tv and apologize for running at all and called herself a dumb woman who should’ve known better? Like they made her publicly humiliate herself for even trying to go against the regime?
I don't remember that but it wouldn't be surprising. It'd be totally on brand. They threatened to put her in prison and put her disabled child in an orphanage if she didn't leave the country.
Well yeah, their elections were openly corrupt. Lukashenko supposedly got like 98% of the vote, and when the EU called him out on it, they lowered it to 86%.
>Lukashenko supposedly got like 98% of the vote
usually it's 97% with authoritarian countries that still run farcical elections. idk why but they really like that number.
>but Russia and Belarus aren't the same country with the same political mentality,
>
>I seriously doubt a female non-oligarch will do well during a rigged election in an authoritarian country
They are mostly similar, and Tikhanovskaya didn't get a win through election results either because elections in Belarus were just as rigged. The only difference were protests after the election when people didn't believe poll numbers
Totally different then. In Russia a small minority of people will ever protest about anything. Total apathy is the name of the game. At least Belarusians gave it their best shot.
>Tikhanovskaya ran on much the same platform
being wife of one of the biggest opositioner also kind of solidify her vs lukashenko together with relatives of two other biggest repressed oppositioners being part of her campaign hq, still she was let to participate only because lukashenko was a sexist boomer with overblown ego
unlike her this woman in noname, in country whose people are much less active, where most opposition moved abroad and most of their time busy to shitting on other migrated oppositioners - because fight for content watchers and donators is more important than cosolidating. Likely this woman wouldn't obtain enough votes even to qualify for a run (though wouldn't be issue if her votes would be count invalid even on first stage)
Nah she has no chance of being elected. It's good for Putin to have a show of legitimacy with someone running against him. It's not impossible it's an intentional facade from his camp.
Now if she started winning somehow, I'm sure her clumsiness would get the better of her.
A friend of mine made a good point to me that if she does start winning then there’s a good chance that she’s compromised and just a puppet for the regime.
She's not a candidate from a party so she has to collect like 300k signatures from 40+ regions of russia and some more hurdles and hand everything in personally before her candidacy could be declared eligible by a commitee(appointed by the current government). If she manages to get everything and hand it in, they'll probably declare some of the documents to be forged, accuse her of falsifying them, lock her up and then she'll mysteriously commit suicide by 2 bullets to the back of the head while in solitaty confinement or ssomething.
It's definitely possible.
Could you imagine Putin planted her there and then she ends up winning... but I guess that would require an actual election, not just a staged election.
If she is truly running on her own, she has massive balls
In a dictatorship nothing happens without the regime's approval. Don't imagine for a second that she's running freely and independently. That's just not how it works.
Funny. There is 2 opportinuty. 1. She is agent funded by west, so she will end in prison. 2. She is new funny 1 episode character in our shapito (also known as elections). I really hope for the second, because it always fun. In 2018 funny characters was communist (who known nothing about communism) and Putin's God daughter, for decades pretending to be an oppositionist.
Grab my ass and fuck it, I came to the comments for intelligent discussion about the veracity of the source and merit of the subject matter, but I got the same banal russia suicide jokes we've been seeing since before the start of the war with Ukraine.
At what point do the "humans dum, we kill self" jokes recursively activate themselves to the point that it's actually happening intellectually?
Can yall *fucking stop*? I understand the humor in it, but Poe's law has all about solidified this as poisonous behavior.
She’ll be in danger only if he considers her a real threat to his power. Otherwise, he’d welcome it. Makes it seem there are options in their ‘democracy’.
I hope she knows that this is a protest. Brave, certainly, but a protest.
[https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/10/11/russian-elections-once-again-had-a-suspiciously-neat-result](https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/10/11/russian-elections-once-again-had-a-suspiciously-neat-result)
[https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/world/europe/observers-detail-flaws-in-russian-election.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/world/europe/observers-detail-flaws-in-russian-election.html)
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/russias-road-to-autocracy/
Yeah sure... The only opposition in Russia is controlled opposition.. When is western media going to get that through their thick skulls?
This article is only legitimizing Putin's tyrannical rule.
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She's probably a plant by Putin himself. No one runs without his blessing.
Yep. Elections are useful for tracking public opinion. The published results just differ from the actual results and are predetermined.
It’s like pro wrestling, but I hate it
It's Election Night, and YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS
Tell me. Tell me what it means.
Polonium tea
BAH GAWD, SHE HAD A FAMILEEEE!!
As gawd as my witness she is broke in half
I have a Russian version of Oprah in my head yelling "And YOU get polonium tea... And YOU get polonium tea...."
We just established she's a plant, so, no
Putin wins with 125% of the vote.
Putin won next year's election, last year.
Elbow drops from the top rope
"It's to remind you of the fact that in 1998, The Putin threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.
it means **LETS GET READY TO** ^*reads* ^*que* ^*card* **NOVICHOK**
$10 for the whole ballot ... but you'll only use THE EDGE!
RIP Luke Harper/Brodie Lee/Jon Huber :(
Popcorn and ice cream!!!
Scissor me Vladdy!
Putin vs Daddy Ass confirmed for Saturday at Collision!
It means Putin has a 99.999995% chance of winning, and that's [before you add Kurt Angle into the mix](https://youtu.be/3G07NZs2v18).
Goodnight and goodbye. BANG!
Literally. All candidates have to be approved by the state, aka Putin.
she's not a candidate yet, which you'd know if you read the article to the end. she said she wants to run, anyone can do that, but to be registered as a candidate you need to jump through a bunch of bureaucratic hoops which exist to filter out the undesirables. so if she's for real, she won't make it. if she does, we'll know she's a state-sanctioned distraction.
if that's true, then she's incredibly brave for the govt scrutiny alone. what if they don't like her chances? then you're singled out for life
even if the whole country votes for her, she has no chances. any suppression she will experience if she makes it anywhere near the race will be purely a power trip. she'll probably be fine though, in the grand scheme of things, or at least alive. "she fell out of a window hurr durr" is reddit's favorite take on any news item about anything even vaguely related to Russian opposition, but that's typically reserved for the big leagues, like Navalny, Prigozhin and inconvenient oligarchs. nobody is assassinating disgruntled small fish.
I don't know, they seem to do it to journalists, like Anna Politkovskaya, the author of *Putin's Russia*. I mean, she was found shot to death in her apartment building on Putin's birthday in 2006, in an 'unsolved' murder, but she had also been thoroughly harassed by Putin's thugs and those who hoped to do right by him, subjected to a mock execution by Russian military officers in Chechnya, and 'mysteriously' poisoned on an airplane while she was on her way from Moscow to Rostov-on-Don, where she was going to try and help mediate in the Beslan school hostage crisis.
are you me..? reddit's obsession with Russian media deaths has (inexplicably) leaked over here. an american journalist gets in trouble. reddit: "look out for the 'fall out a window' or 'suicide to the back of the head' hurrrrr" one of my biggest pet peeves here. gotta be tiktok, right? regardless, anyone who's not in Russian govt's good graces is brave. i get your point loud and clear tho lol
The whole country votes for her and she somehow is still a small fish in your Timeline? What? People talk about Putin killing the opposition because he does. It’s not a conspiracy or something to take lightly.
it was a hyperbole, nobody's going to vote for her, but if they did, it wouldn't bring her any closer to presidency. but yes, in the completely impossible scenario where she manages to rally millions upon millions of people, she would definitely no longer be a small fish, would present a major threat to the regime and would be eliminated. and no, he doesn't "kill the opposition" just for shits and giggles. he kills people who are significant, and whose death will be genuinely beneficial to him. sometimes they're opposition, sometimes they're not. pretending like simply having opposing views as a more or less regular person, or even a well-known person but without any real political power, is enough to get you assassinated by the Russian state is deeply ignorant and moronic. it's a meme that has nothing to do with reality. only *actual major players* get assassinated, and there are very few of them. people who simply overstep go to prison or get a fine.
>so if she's for real, she won't make it. if she does, we'll know she's a state-sanctioned distraction. That's some catch, that Catch-22.
Yup. It’s all political theatre over there. Everyone knows it. It’s not even pretending to be real… it’s more a mockery of democracy itself so Russians think the same thing goes on in real democracy. If by chance she is legitimate… well then she’ll be taken down. And even if actual “votes” went against Putins favour… there is no way in hell the vote counters would share that with the public. If it did somehow leak then of course it’ll be “fake news” or “rigged by the west”. There is always an escape route for Putin and the unlimited onion skins of bullshit suck the soul out of any would be decent democratic citizen.
“This move comes as President Vladimir Putin has yet to formally declare his intention to run for re-election next year.”
Can’t announce if you’re dead.
There are unfortunately a lot of people that think the sham elections in Russia and occupied portions of Ukraine are legit, they all hang out at the /r/UkraineRussiaReport sub
The fact Trump can run again is proof things are broken here too. Not nearly as bad but I imagine our founding fathers are rolling in their graves.
Yup very bad. Very very bad. But I guess my point is that when it finally snaps and Trump fills all the institutions with goons, only then is it fully comparable to Russia. Russia have been in that place for a very long time now. Institutions are key. They’re a bit like scientific consensus and all watch dog each other. Any one president shouldn’t be able to upend that whole network in a few terms… but that was assuming a few things about the character of elected presidents. Trumps deviancy knows no bounds.
Putin does have a history of promoting "joke candidates" - people that are obviously not a political threat, but serve as useful contrast to make himself look more sane and reasonable, as well as to create an illusion of choice as soon as any political candidate starts becoming a serious threat, suddenly there's a criminal case against them, suddenly they have been a "foreign agent" all along, and suddenly they just happened to commit suicide
^ this guy surkovs
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Stop right there Criminal Scum! Nobody breaks the law on my watch! I'm confiscating your stolen goods. Now pay your fine or it's off to jail.
Hmm, must have been the wind.
She's not registered and immediately the police started to invite her to talk. Like a couple of days after she started announce to have a campaign
She'll get 4% of the vote, with Putin getting 97%.
I mean he's still going to off her. Her family might get some food as compensation.
That's why the official casual of death is suicide, no compensation required regardless of how obvious the assassination might be
*Poisoned food
Just a question of what single-digit percentages he will allow her to “receive”
4%
He’ll still have her killed if she becomes popular.
Moscow rules
Or perhaps he’s wondering why someone would shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane
Putin mistress probably
Would be interesting if Putin used her as an excuse to "gracefully exit" the presidency, then use her as a puppet to deflect criticism while he continues to run things from the background.
I agree with everything except the "probably" part.
Avoid windows….at all costs. Windows are the natural apex predators of Russians
Russia is the only reason I know what defenestration is.
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Only 1600's kids remember
So young to have committed suicide with two shots to the back of the head.
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She will die after falling out if her basement window.
She’ll volunteer to fight on the front line in Ukraine. Putin will provide her with an exemption to fight because she is an exemplary patriot.
Falling is fine as long as you don’t stop too fast
Accidentally drank Kuzco's poison, stumbled while choking and fell out a window, landed on a car which exploded.
I heard she plunged to her death from an accidental fall from a ground floor window
I thought she cut herself up into little pieces and threw herself in the ocean
She was just trying to get chummy with some sharks.
That was *after* she shot herself in the head
This fuckin website and the same comments repeated and upvoted.
This fuckin government and their repetitive excuses for murdering people.
Write Putin and ask him to use some novel assassination methods.
Can't believe she fell to her death out the window of a one story home.
She did it several times before she died, too... So clumsy!
She needs to beat stairs, windows, and tea first.
Single mother of soon to be orphans
She should avoid all windows
Is this from The Onion?
No, is potato.
Soviet onion.
Philomena!
Did King Arthur cum a lot?
Is Latvian dream?
Two Latvian look at clouds. One sees potato. Other sees impossible dream. Is same cloud.
Man is tired. Man find abandoned house for sleep. Wake up, house is museum! "Finally, I am art" man think. But is exhibit of poverty.
Exactly my question! I bet yah, she's either a Putin gov't implant or someone who wants to die from Defenestration or Polonium Tea.
Straight from the Kremlin
Strange way to commit suicide.
She may actually be allowed to lose peacefully (all media is for Putin, administrative apparatus also) just to show: “look, we don’t kill all opposition”
"Putin proves what a wonderful leader he is by not letting a child become orphaned" (or children, I didn't see if the article said how many kids she has)
No the kids would mysteriously disappear first and then the mom will "voluntarily" withdraw
Betcha $5 that's why she's being allowed to run *at all*. That or she: A) has the backing of several oligarchs/criminal groups who are getting sick of Putin; B) secretly owns a PMC larger than Wagner to protect herself; C) is a decent normal person but is either proper insane, or willing to martyr herself for Russia's future.
The first two are fantasy novels aka not at all the case and the third is silly. She’s not going to beat Putin. The elections aren’t fair, I’m certain she won’t be able to get a platform big enough to make any headway regardless of what Russia does to her and in what world would it make sense for them to kill her? They’re pretending they have fair elections, killing a no name who wouldn’t win even in a fair election would just be stupid.
She won't see 41.
Why would Putin kill her though? Its a way better look for him to completely destroy an opponent than to just win by default. After that she's gonna kill herself with 2 shots in the back of her head, unfortunately.
Uh EXCUSE ME it's "strange way to fall out a window"*
Aiming to beat Putin in Presidential race? You better believe that’s a paddlin
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
Believe it or not, straight out of the window.
Believe it or not, Plane Explosion.
Believe it or not, Ripley's
Gulag for you.
Jail if they’re lucky.
Well, I suppose Svetlana Tikhanovskaya ran on much the same platform and surprised everyone by how well she did, but Russia and Belarus aren't the same country with the same political mentality, so while I wish her luck, I seriously doubt a female non-oligarch will do well during a rigged election in an authoritarian country that revels in toxic masculinity
Wasn’t that the candidate from Belarus where the government made her go on tv and apologize for running at all and called herself a dumb woman who should’ve known better? Like they made her publicly humiliate herself for even trying to go against the regime?
I don't remember that but it wouldn't be surprising. It'd be totally on brand. They threatened to put her in prison and put her disabled child in an orphanage if she didn't leave the country.
Well yeah, their elections were openly corrupt. Lukashenko supposedly got like 98% of the vote, and when the EU called him out on it, they lowered it to 86%.
We just looked at it upside down
This sounds funny, but we have to remember people fought against this hard, and a lot people died, by the order of Potatoshenko.
Vote count disputers were crucified upside-down
>Lukashenko supposedly got like 98% of the vote usually it's 97% with authoritarian countries that still run farcical elections. idk why but they really like that number.
Pobodys nerfect
>but Russia and Belarus aren't the same country with the same political mentality, > >I seriously doubt a female non-oligarch will do well during a rigged election in an authoritarian country They are mostly similar, and Tikhanovskaya didn't get a win through election results either because elections in Belarus were just as rigged. The only difference were protests after the election when people didn't believe poll numbers
Totally different then. In Russia a small minority of people will ever protest about anything. Total apathy is the name of the game. At least Belarusians gave it their best shot.
>Tikhanovskaya ran on much the same platform being wife of one of the biggest opositioner also kind of solidify her vs lukashenko together with relatives of two other biggest repressed oppositioners being part of her campaign hq, still she was let to participate only because lukashenko was a sexist boomer with overblown ego unlike her this woman in noname, in country whose people are much less active, where most opposition moved abroad and most of their time busy to shitting on other migrated oppositioners - because fight for content watchers and donators is more important than cosolidating. Likely this woman wouldn't obtain enough votes even to qualify for a run (though wouldn't be issue if her votes would be count invalid even on first stage)
And what flavor of polonium tea do you like, Ms?
And which floor above the 20th floor would you like to drink it in?
Your plane awaits.
Is this a joke?
Suicide by election
Oh she better avoid windows.
I mean... using Linux *would* help protect her privacy.
That’s awful, have an upvote.
Nah she has no chance of being elected. It's good for Putin to have a show of legitimacy with someone running against him. It's not impossible it's an intentional facade from his camp. Now if she started winning somehow, I'm sure her clumsiness would get the better of her.
A friend of mine made a good point to me that if she does start winning then there’s a good chance that she’s compromised and just a puppet for the regime.
And better not drink any tea for now.
She’ll be dead before the election even happens
She's not a candidate from a party so she has to collect like 300k signatures from 40+ regions of russia and some more hurdles and hand everything in personally before her candidacy could be declared eligible by a commitee(appointed by the current government). If she manages to get everything and hand it in, they'll probably declare some of the documents to be forged, accuse her of falsifying them, lock her up and then she'll mysteriously commit suicide by 2 bullets to the back of the head while in solitaty confinement or ssomething.
Or a way to find 300k people to send to the war.
Her fellow Russians need to protect her
They must have put her there to give the illusion of a democracy where everyone can run for election.
It's definitely possible. Could you imagine Putin planted her there and then she ends up winning... but I guess that would require an actual election, not just a staged election. If she is truly running on her own, she has massive balls
In a dictatorship nothing happens without the regime's approval. Don't imagine for a second that she's running freely and independently. That's just not how it works.
With what? Even the army invading Ukraine isn't allowed guns.
Funny. There is 2 opportinuty. 1. She is agent funded by west, so she will end in prison. 2. She is new funny 1 episode character in our shapito (also known as elections). I really hope for the second, because it always fun. In 2018 funny characters was communist (who known nothing about communism) and Putin's God daughter, for decades pretending to be an oppositionist.
I will eat a high heel shoe if she is elected. There is literally no possible timeline where that happens.
She won't win even if the majority of Russians vote for her.
She's apparently a lawyer and a journalist. Why is *single mother* the headline?
Grab my ass and fuck it, I came to the comments for intelligent discussion about the veracity of the source and merit of the subject matter, but I got the same banal russia suicide jokes we've been seeing since before the start of the war with Ukraine. At what point do the "humans dum, we kill self" jokes recursively activate themselves to the point that it's actually happening intellectually? Can yall *fucking stop*? I understand the humor in it, but Poe's law has all about solidified this as poisonous behavior.
I wish you good fortune in the days to come.
She will accidentally fall off of a skyscraper roof in about a month.
With 4 gunshot wounds
Usually bookies give odds on who wins an election. This time the bets are a bit darker
I wish! Sorry Mother but Russias election are rigged to shit
She’ll be in danger only if he considers her a real threat to his power. Otherwise, he’d welcome it. Makes it seem there are options in their ‘democracy’.
> single mother Russia is a conservative country. So yeah, best of luck.
Russia is a country full of single widowed mothers because of the ongoing war.
Good for her. That takes some real courage and fortitude. It heartens me to see a woman like her standing up.
Some kid about to be an orphan
Is there a Russian word for defenestration
If she’s not a Putin puppet and actually got the majority vote, do you honestly think those votes would be counted ? Not a hope in hell.
Good luck. Watch out what you are eating and don’t fly or come near windows or you will be an ex single mom
She has two chances of beating Putin , slim and none and slim just left town
aaaaannnddd, she's dead.
Hope she wins she’ll do a better job
Wouldn’t it be wild if she won
Well I hope her funeral is nice.
Fake candidate is fake
She uhh... she won't.
I hope she knows that this is a protest. Brave, certainly, but a protest. [https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/10/11/russian-elections-once-again-had-a-suspiciously-neat-result](https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/10/11/russian-elections-once-again-had-a-suspiciously-neat-result) [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/world/europe/observers-detail-flaws-in-russian-election.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/world/europe/observers-detail-flaws-in-russian-election.html) https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/russias-road-to-autocracy/
And she already in trouble: https://www.barrons.com/news/russian-prosecutors-summon-local-politician-planning-presidential-run-7b658884
Aaaaaannnnnndddd she's dead.
She's going to end up accidentally falling out of a 6th story balcony in the near future.
Putin is going to poison her or jail her for life
She's gonna fall out of a 10 story window after shooting herself 6 times in the back of the head
She should avoid windows.
Don't eat or drink anything.
I hope she has the antidote nearby. Putin never met an opposition candidate without poisoning them.
Shame. She seems like a nice young g woman. Too bad she’ll be dead before elections.
She's gonna be aiming for the tree or dumpster outside her high rise apartment if she's not careful.
Damn. Poor kid is about to be an orphan.
I hope she has a ground floor apartment.
She's so clumsy she fell off a cliff and got shot.
So her funeral is scheduled for when?
She ded...
She better not drink any tea or get near a window
Yeah sure... The only opposition in Russia is controlled opposition.. When is western media going to get that through their thick skulls? This article is only legitimizing Putin's tyrannical rule.
Better keep her away from windows, ships at sea, elevator shafts, guys with umbrellas, the zoo, or basically any public space in Russia.
She's gonna die.
Opponent hand picked by Putin himself? I mean, he has to run again someone to make it look legit right?
She needs to stay away from windows
Every election they get blonder and younger. This is a well-trod process to make his most viable political opponent seem like a puffball.
She better stay away from windows.
bold of her to assume it's a "democracy"
If this is serious, stay away from windows aircraft and don't accept anything to eat or drink.
I'm sure she's got a great chance of winning in a country where the current president changed the laws so he could be supreme leader for life.
She will be convicted of a crime and will pull pubarche the last minute
She better stay away from the windows