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I think this thread is built almost entirely on optimism.

(Transliteration) Kto mog by byt` prezidentom? Ya! (http://youtube.com/watch?v=CXtb1eXohUg)

The 5th of December is of course the duma elections in Russia. Although we all know who will win, you do want to win? poll coming

The 5th of December is of course the duma elections in Russia. Although we all know who will win, you do want to win? poll coming
Me, I've always wanted to run a country

Def Commies--the only hope for the Motherland.

I think this thread is built almost entirely on optimism.

how so?

A communist, a statist and a former KGB officer and authoritarian, whatever you vote for you're getting the same thing :cool:

how so?

Dude...Look at what Putin's doing. At this rate, they're aren't going to be elections.

The Commies, just to make things interesting.

(Realistically, Mr Putin is the only one who'll get to cast a proper vote:()

Anybody but Putin's United Russia. Even the communists.

Dude...Look at what Putin's doing. At this rate, they're aren't going to be elections.

no, there will be, they just may not be as free or open as the west would like to see.

Anybody but Putin's United Russia. Even the communists.

I personally find United Russia to be far more tolerable than the communists. Russians today enjoy far more personal freedom than they did in the SU.

Good joke.
The mere thought that they have elections in that frigid wasteland is quite amusing.
Quite amusing indeed.

the reanimated corpse of lenin

all hail zombie lenin!

But meh, we all know who will win :( It's sad how one country can have so much bad luck when it comes to national leaders.

This thread is about Russia.
Not America.
Though we do need your sympathy.
*empathetically absorbs sympathy*

the beer lovers' party (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Lovers_Party_%28Russia%29) of course!

Yabloko (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yabloko)seems somewhat ok too.

But meh, we all know who will win :( It's sad how one country can have so much bad luck when it comes to national leaders.

It's sad how one country can have so much bad luck when it comes to national leaders.

hence the need for the glorious return zombie lenin

Sorry guys but Russia will never be a liberal country, even from the time of the Muscovites to Stalin and the USSR, the Russian people were born to be ruled with social restriction, they respond only to the power of the state. Putin put the oligarchs in jail, killed them or deported them in the greater good of Russia. Privatization is economic rape and should be punished like any white-collar crime, their shares should be nationalized.

This thread is about Russia.
Not America.
Though we do need your sympathy.
*empathetically absorbs sympathy*

Meh, while you certainly have had bad leaders, you didn't have stalins, or putins or tzars etc.

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation. So far the biggest pro democracy, pro-civil liberties voice in Russia (kinda ironic, ain't it?). I say give them a shot, and have them rain in Putin and the oligarch's power and maybe, just maybe, they'll live up to their principles and promote the development of democratic socialism.

I'd vote for Garry Kasparov, and his United Civil Front party. Unlike the Communists, the Right Wing and Putin, they are a party that wants to create a truly democratic government in Russia, and preserve it for Russian's in the future.

The fact that he is a grand chessmaster also looks favourably on him. :)

Sadly, he has been imprisoned for 5 days after leading an "unsanctioned anti-government protest", criticizing Putin's dismantling of the democratic process.

BTW we'd better stop now, otherwise this thread may be viewed as "foreign intervention" in the Russian elections by the FSB. :rolleyes:

Whoever wins, we lose.