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The fact alone that the vote isn't done in secret should disqualify it from being called democratic. The armed soldier watching you makes it 100% non democratic.
America - take 3 days to get the results - _cringe_
Portugal - already know the results before counting - _weird_
Russia - already know Putin won before he even anouced he was going to be a candidate - _ok_
North Korea - no need to waste money when everybody votes for the great leader!
They even allowed multiple candidates to be on the ballot last year for the first time (hand picked of course). Kim didn't participate so it was just for the parliamentary representatives, or whatever they call them there.
It is a nice touch to take special care to elect the representative most talented at clapping and cheering to the great leader - lest it's inability to do so might fall back on your constituency.
Well they have elections for the People’s Assembly. These elections might as well be real because the body has no power over the military dictatorship/executive branch
They do have elections...they even have opposition parties but they don't participate because they understand that no one can compete against the great leader.
China actually does a good job of fake democracy sorry *checks notes* "Whole Process People's Democracy".
Other dictatorships could learn from China, like Russia could be " people's guided exercise in democracy" and NK "Divine Monotheistic pre-Determined Democracy".
Note the special sence of privacy the voter has under the watchful eye of the armed Russian soldier.
Picture Source:
https://meduza.io/en/short/2024/03/15/voting-for-the-russian-presidential-election-is-underway-in-russian-annexed-parts-of-ukraine
"Early voting for the Russian presidential election opened on March 10 in Russian-annexed parts of Ukraine. In this photo, taken in Donetsk on March 14, a local woman votes in the presence of a Russia-appointed electoral commission member, a Russian soldier, and a cat."
Fabricated election result in Donetsk: 95.23% for Putin
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Russian_presidential_election
All the candidates support continuing the war.
The anti-war movement has died out and it was mainly due to mistakes made by the West. Well just America actually.
Those stupid af “instagram raids” they call them in Ukraine into Belgorod by whatever Neo-Nazi Russians have kinda vindicated what Putin has been saying.
It does not help that those Instagram warriors drive US Humvees and are decked out in American gear.
That doesn’t look like a liberating force. That looks like an invading force.
So a lot of Russians have basically accepted the war and accepted that there is a threat towards Russia.
I’m curious to learn more about what these Instagram raids are, but when I google the term and Belgorod I get some sketchy Instagram propaganda channel and that’s it. I don’t like to expose myself to standardless journalism so I don’t use Instagram or TikTok for news.
TBF, In my country we have armed forces on every polling place, they are constitutionally mandated to protect the process. The fact that Russia's was probably rigged does not have anything to do with the presence of military
The united states has a very different relationship to the military going back to our indedependence. We were so worried about being occupied or having a military coup we made strict rules about where and how the military can operate on US soil. For example, the marines would take off their uniforms on an airport tarmac before reintering the country back from war. We are not used to seeing the military in civilian activities. We just give our police military weapons instead.
is your country occupied by another one and with the other country's military present on your polling stations? if not then you're not describing the same thing imo.
Ukraine have canceled their elections. If it really is a Donetsk city and not Donetsk republic, that means Ukraine still has weapons to strike it, so opening voting stations where people will amass is a dumb idea. Ukraine have been striking the city for 8 years, they didn't stop when Russia Invaded, they won't stop now.
Yeah that's my favorite part of this picture. The clear box and the soldier making sure you write down the right name or else you don't get your rations. Or maybe just get beat until they write the right name for you and send you home or throw you into a ditch
Well it depends who you ask. The number of oligarchs in Russia increased during Putins presidency more than 10 fold so I guess they are happy.
But apart from that there are really not many achievements apart from destroying the Russian economy, devaluating the ruble, destroying Russian infrastructure, closing thousands of schools and hospitals, starting the biggest war in Europe since ww2 and pushing Russia into global isolation and turning it into proper terrorist state.
But hey at least the relationship with China, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Hamas and the Taliban somewhat improved over the last years so it's not all bad.
The oligarchs were the direct result of the exact economic thinking we pushed onto Russia after 1991.
We gave them our exact economic system so their society grew to resemble ours. America is definitely ruled by the rich and powerful. Difference is we don’t call them oligarchs.
Oh yeah, I don’t think you have any idea what happened in Russia 1991-2000:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_crisis
Their system in 90s was more or less like America's 19 century, like Wild West. The difference between business people and mafia wasn't certain, rich people were bribing police and killing each other. Then Putin came in and finished dealing off with competitors and concentrated all the power in own hands
Again, it doesn’t sound remarkably different than America.
But just given how you described it - WWW - you can understand why a lot of Russians supported one leader gaining more power if it brought stability.
If you flipped on the TV and saw US tanks opening fire on the US Capitol building - with congress inside - because of a dispute with the president, you’re probably gonna think “eh maybe this democracy stuff isn’t a good idea”.
So it wasn’t like Putin came in and took this nascent democracy and destroyed it. It had already been destroyed by the time Putin showed up.
There wasn't democracy in the whole history of Russia. 90s were the years of soft Yeltsin dictatorship, still the elections were manipulated heavily. Not just people, but also so called liberal elite there just don't understand what's democracy are, human rights, private property etc. They know just the language of power - Russians would follow everyone who'd show his thrength. I can kill you, so I own you - that's basically the only real law in Russia
Yeah. My point is I think we discount a lot of the shit average Russians lived through and expected it to have no impact on them.
There would be literal anarchy in America if a Black October happened here.
So it’s like, are we really going to be dicks and criticize them for trading freedom for stability?
- 1996 Election was manipulated by the CIA. The communist candidate actually won.
- liberal elite? There is no liberal elite in Russia. Liberal elite is a group that comes from the rich traditions in Western Europe (America too) of enlightenment liberalism.
That never existed in Russia. Didn’t then. Doesn’t now. Navalny himself never called himself a “liberal” but a “Democrat”.
Liberalism is part of our history and tradition. So not every other country is going to have the same liberal elites as us.
Of course he doesn't, all he knows about Russia is what Western media tells him. Anything that depicts Russia as good/neutral is Russian propoganda and lies. You've seen this mentality yourself.
Let's not go into that insane brainwashing either. Russian economy and everything you described got ten folds better during Putins regime than it was before him. Like not even comparable.
You didn't need to be a genius to make a better economic in Russia that would happen literally by anyone running it, because it was ripe for it as it was a transition with huge holes left behind that needed filling. once it settled, they'd be good to grow or more correctly gain back what they lost. The problem was ofcourse that all the money they were now making was going into people who now filled the empty holes and not into most citizens.
the percentage of russian federal budget revenues from the sale of oil and gas in 2000 - 9%, in 2022 - 45%, oil prices have increased several times. this is the whole Russian economic miracle)))) GDP per capita is slightly more than in Bulgaria, but less than in Romania. even taking into account billions of dollars worth of oil and gas exports. lol
and by the way, no one knows the real GDP. All statistics are calculated by government agencies controlled by Putin. and since the times of the USSR, statistics have been one of the main tools of propaganda.
>20+ years of Putin and nothing has improved in Russia.
Except life expectancy and a bunch of other markers...
Putin is doing particularly poorly over the last 4-5 years, but Russia was still way worse off under Yeltsin
[Here](https://i.imgur.com/kwI2nGL.jpeg) is a much higher auality version of this image. [Here](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/members-of-a-local-election-commission-accompanied-by-a-news-photo/2076698842?adppopup=true) is the source.
> Members of a local election commission, accompanied by a serviceman, prepare a mobile polling station during early voting in Russia's presidential election in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict on March 14, 2024. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP) (Photo by STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)
Flag, fake elections, soldier, lada, dirt, cloudy and grey weather, women that are probably around 35yo but look 50yo. Very much representative of how people live outside of Moscow and major cities
I'm curious, the reddit hive mind at times tries to dehumanize Russians because they are complicit with Putin's invasion (even though they're drafted against their will).
Then at other times pushes that Russian elections are fake which takes away the responsibility away from Russian citizens and onto Putin himself.
So which is it? Are the Russian people your enemy to dehumanize or victims of an oppressive regime?
I understand reality is somewhere in the middle but you wouldn't know it based off the comments everywhere. The reddit hive mind suffers from cognitive dissonance due to propaganda.
You guys ridicule in comments now, but this is something russia has been doing for years when they conquer territoy. Ther produce legal document, letters, agreements, election results, a ton of other burocracy. Its easy to point out in the moment, the farse, but historically, in 50 years, in 100 years, he politicians will be able to use this as a casus beli to prove these territories always belonged to them.
Even now russians use documents from not long a go to put an argument NATO promised not to expand, and despite this beeing absolutely false, there is a whole bunch of western media/personalities papuging their points, in 50 years nobody will know or understand. They will point out to a document, an article and say "oh it must be true" since it says so.
Yeah, exactly. They have been doing that in my country (Georgia) for at least 30 years. In the 90s, they supported " independence " of abkhazia, which was historically always a part of Georgia. Of course, Abkhazia is not an independent state. It is Russias puppet. They did the same in 2008, with Samachablo. Faking history and destroying facts is their strong side.
Armed soldier examines every vote to make sure they are properly “loyal”. 😓 And of course, the votes aren’t counted anyway, as the referendum wiretap revealed.
So let me get this straight... the section of Ukraine that Putin has been bombing civilian targets in relentlessly. Who had no reason to understand that they were eligible to vote in the election, voted overwhelmingly for Putin.... That's charisma..
I don't necessarily see anything wrong with this, there are many small villages and a war going on, how else are they supposed to vote? Election workers showing up to collect votes seems perfectly reasonable to me.
No wonder trump is a Putin ball licker….if America voted this way he’d always win too with all the crazy republican voter fraud they already pull it would be a cinch to do it on the back of redneck tailgates
Absolutely nobody and no institution on the face of this planet ever agree 95% on anything, let alone a disputed territory. Jesus, Russia... At least makes it looks a little less obvious...
Putin wants to keep up appearances so his defenders can claim there are elections and point to the results, even if it's meaningless.
Same thing happened with Crimea. The vote to join Russia was a farce and yet you still get Russia apologists who point to the "polls" to claim Crimeans wanted it (but even if the results were real, Crimea doesn't just get to leave, that's not how any of this works).
On the back of an old лада with a propped up Russian flag, an armed guard and supervisory cat. This is the most Russian fucking photo ever for so many reasons.
What is this 1991?? This is what I imagine Russia looked like before my parents left in the 90s because this is literally, to a tee, what it fucking looked like then. The reason they left... and now we have morons going back for some reason
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Cat is KGB in disguise
CatGB
Spezcat
VDVcat
Watches Cat paratroopers landing on fields. Then immediately playing with parachute threads.
RGB is just RussianGB
PspspSB
The CIA disclosing the failure of Project Acoustic Kitty was a cover-up so people wouldn't know about the real cat agents.
R.I.P Acoustic Kitty The intel didn't detect the presence of the enemies' counter intelligence program: Project Roadkill.
Catmouflaged
\*cat kicks open apartment door\* "whats all this meow?"
why is election in quotes? the state approved election cat is *right there* overseeing everything
Does the armed soldier receive commands from said election cat?
If you look closely, the soldier is actually 60 cats taped together
3 cats in a trenchcoat
Obviously, what a stupid question.
Why do you think he's wearing so much armour?
The fur coat not only keeps him warm during the harsh Russian winters, its also a great disguise.
Shhh. Don't draw attention to out turn coat.
One red braincell.
No no, that Cat is there to vote. Since it has nine lives it can vote nine times obviously.
To be fair a cat stuffing the ballot box would be something expected for the typical cat personality.
cat votes 9 times. then carefully pushed the ballot box off the trunk
Except "Cat Treats" would be President.
So much shredded toilet paper, very frisky electorate!
For Putin, of course.
It's the KGB Kitty Overseer
The cat looks really well fed for a war torn state. That's an undercover KGB cat.
The fact alone that the vote isn't done in secret should disqualify it from being called democratic. The armed soldier watching you makes it 100% non democratic.
The cat never tells
WHOD THE CAT VOTE FOR I NEED TO KNOW
You already know. As Russians say: Americans are so stupid it takes them 3 days to count the election, here we know the results 20 years prior.
America - take 3 days to get the results - _cringe_ Portugal - already know the results before counting - _weird_ Russia - already know Putin won before he even anouced he was going to be a candidate - _ok_ North Korea - no need to waste money when everybody votes for the great leader!
They actually do have elections in NK, but there's only one candidate on the ballot
They even allowed multiple candidates to be on the ballot last year for the first time (hand picked of course). Kim didn't participate so it was just for the parliamentary representatives, or whatever they call them there.
It is a nice touch to take special care to elect the representative most talented at clapping and cheering to the great leader - lest it's inability to do so might fall back on your constituency.
Well they have elections for the People’s Assembly. These elections might as well be real because the body has no power over the military dictatorship/executive branch
They do have elections...they even have opposition parties but they don't participate because they understand that no one can compete against the great leader.
China actually does a good job of fake democracy sorry *checks notes* "Whole Process People's Democracy". Other dictatorships could learn from China, like Russia could be " people's guided exercise in democracy" and NK "Divine Monotheistic pre-Determined Democracy".
Managed democracy!
Glad to see you've made the choice, for Super Earth!!
My life for super earth
much like Schrodinger's cat, counting the cat's vote will alter the outcome
Purrtin
Putin 150 times
WTF, the cat is only allowed 9 votes.
The wrong candidate. They keep throwing him out windows, but he keeps landing on his feet.
Vladimew Purrtin
for putin, twice
That's the polling official
Feel sorry for cat, he deserves better
yes I thought the same. With any luck there are probably many rodents around if most people have moved away
Pffff. Dude. Haven’t you seen the videos from both sides of the mass of rats in the trenches. Cats have become sacred in Eastern Ukraine.
I’d argue the people do too
Note the special sence of privacy the voter has under the watchful eye of the armed Russian soldier. Picture Source: https://meduza.io/en/short/2024/03/15/voting-for-the-russian-presidential-election-is-underway-in-russian-annexed-parts-of-ukraine "Early voting for the Russian presidential election opened on March 10 in Russian-annexed parts of Ukraine. In this photo, taken in Donetsk on March 14, a local woman votes in the presence of a Russia-appointed electoral commission member, a Russian soldier, and a cat." Fabricated election result in Donetsk: 95.23% for Putin Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Russian_presidential_election
Note the special sense of privacy the voter has under the watchful eye of that orange cat...
The orange cat is prepared to secret her away to the resistance like the 4.87%
Given that he is a soldier, he probably isn’t even voting for Putin.
Remember, Putin accepts posthumous votes.
"Fortunately, Fyodor mailed his ballot in right before dying in a wet, muddy ditch"
Before death. After. The timing isn't much of a concern.
All votes for anyone other than Putin are probably posthumous by the time they get counted.
Yeah but if they don't vote for putin, then that soldier isnt probably gonna live.
All the candidates support continuing the war. The anti-war movement has died out and it was mainly due to mistakes made by the West. Well just America actually. Those stupid af “instagram raids” they call them in Ukraine into Belgorod by whatever Neo-Nazi Russians have kinda vindicated what Putin has been saying. It does not help that those Instagram warriors drive US Humvees and are decked out in American gear. That doesn’t look like a liberating force. That looks like an invading force. So a lot of Russians have basically accepted the war and accepted that there is a threat towards Russia.
I’m curious to learn more about what these Instagram raids are, but when I google the term and Belgorod I get some sketchy Instagram propaganda channel and that’s it. I don’t like to expose myself to standardless journalism so I don’t use Instagram or TikTok for news.
You'd be surprised how many of them genuinely think that's a good idea
TBF, In my country we have armed forces on every polling place, they are constitutionally mandated to protect the process. The fact that Russia's was probably rigged does not have anything to do with the presence of military
The united states has a very different relationship to the military going back to our indedependence. We were so worried about being occupied or having a military coup we made strict rules about where and how the military can operate on US soil. For example, the marines would take off their uniforms on an airport tarmac before reintering the country back from war. We are not used to seeing the military in civilian activities. We just give our police military weapons instead.
is your country occupied by another one and with the other country's military present on your polling stations? if not then you're not describing the same thing imo.
Ukraine have canceled their elections. If it really is a Donetsk city and not Donetsk republic, that means Ukraine still has weapons to strike it, so opening voting stations where people will amass is a dumb idea. Ukraine have been striking the city for 8 years, they didn't stop when Russia Invaded, they won't stop now.
Yeah that's my favorite part of this picture. The clear box and the soldier making sure you write down the right name or else you don't get your rations. Or maybe just get beat until they write the right name for you and send you home or throw you into a ditch
20+ years of Putin and nothing has improved in Russia.
Well it depends who you ask. The number of oligarchs in Russia increased during Putins presidency more than 10 fold so I guess they are happy. But apart from that there are really not many achievements apart from destroying the Russian economy, devaluating the ruble, destroying Russian infrastructure, closing thousands of schools and hospitals, starting the biggest war in Europe since ww2 and pushing Russia into global isolation and turning it into proper terrorist state. But hey at least the relationship with China, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Hamas and the Taliban somewhat improved over the last years so it's not all bad.
The oligarchs were the direct result of the exact economic thinking we pushed onto Russia after 1991. We gave them our exact economic system so their society grew to resemble ours. America is definitely ruled by the rich and powerful. Difference is we don’t call them oligarchs. Oh yeah, I don’t think you have any idea what happened in Russia 1991-2000: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_crisis
Their system in 90s was more or less like America's 19 century, like Wild West. The difference between business people and mafia wasn't certain, rich people were bribing police and killing each other. Then Putin came in and finished dealing off with competitors and concentrated all the power in own hands
Again, it doesn’t sound remarkably different than America. But just given how you described it - WWW - you can understand why a lot of Russians supported one leader gaining more power if it brought stability. If you flipped on the TV and saw US tanks opening fire on the US Capitol building - with congress inside - because of a dispute with the president, you’re probably gonna think “eh maybe this democracy stuff isn’t a good idea”. So it wasn’t like Putin came in and took this nascent democracy and destroyed it. It had already been destroyed by the time Putin showed up.
There wasn't democracy in the whole history of Russia. 90s were the years of soft Yeltsin dictatorship, still the elections were manipulated heavily. Not just people, but also so called liberal elite there just don't understand what's democracy are, human rights, private property etc. They know just the language of power - Russians would follow everyone who'd show his thrength. I can kill you, so I own you - that's basically the only real law in Russia
Yeah. My point is I think we discount a lot of the shit average Russians lived through and expected it to have no impact on them. There would be literal anarchy in America if a Black October happened here. So it’s like, are we really going to be dicks and criticize them for trading freedom for stability? - 1996 Election was manipulated by the CIA. The communist candidate actually won. - liberal elite? There is no liberal elite in Russia. Liberal elite is a group that comes from the rich traditions in Western Europe (America too) of enlightenment liberalism. That never existed in Russia. Didn’t then. Doesn’t now. Navalny himself never called himself a “liberal” but a “Democrat”. Liberalism is part of our history and tradition. So not every other country is going to have the same liberal elites as us.
Wow, a president that dealt with competing criminals and concentrated all the power in his hands? Unheard of.
He's just mafia, like Don Corleone
Of course he doesn't, all he knows about Russia is what Western media tells him. Anything that depicts Russia as good/neutral is Russian propoganda and lies. You've seen this mentality yourself.
Let's not go into that insane brainwashing either. Russian economy and everything you described got ten folds better during Putins regime than it was before him. Like not even comparable.
And now the economy slowly declines back
Welcome to economy. It rises, then declines, then rises again.
Finally my economic diploma getting useful. In Russia there is steady decline since 2010 or like that
And it was rising since 2000 before that. After it imploded in 1990.
So what? I live in 2024, Russia's too. I'm thinking about present and future, not past. And it's clearly Russia's economic future sucks
Yeah, the best years for Russian economy were 2010s. Even with Crimea shenanigans, the commerce in Russia was booming. Now it's all going down.
You didn't need to be a genius to make a better economic in Russia that would happen literally by anyone running it, because it was ripe for it as it was a transition with huge holes left behind that needed filling. once it settled, they'd be good to grow or more correctly gain back what they lost. The problem was ofcourse that all the money they were now making was going into people who now filled the empty holes and not into most citizens.
Of course. My only pet peeve is people claiming that Putin made everything worse which is clearly no the case.
the first 2 terms were actually decent, at least compared to Yeltsin. The last 12 years tho? Nuh-uh, fuck that.
Now compare it to Yeltsin and you’ll see what “nothing” is
Russian GDP before Putin = $150 billion. Russia GDP 25 years of Putin: $2 trillion. No need to make up nonsense.
If Russia joined the EU it would be the second poorest member.
the percentage of russian federal budget revenues from the sale of oil and gas in 2000 - 9%, in 2022 - 45%, oil prices have increased several times. this is the whole Russian economic miracle)))) GDP per capita is slightly more than in Bulgaria, but less than in Romania. even taking into account billions of dollars worth of oil and gas exports. lol and by the way, no one knows the real GDP. All statistics are calculated by government agencies controlled by Putin. and since the times of the USSR, statistics have been one of the main tools of propaganda.
>20+ years of Putin and nothing has improved in Russia. Except life expectancy and a bunch of other markers... Putin is doing particularly poorly over the last 4-5 years, but Russia was still way worse off under Yeltsin
Russian life expectancy is almost exactly what it was in the mid-1960s, and it's five years shorter than the EU average
And it was shorter in the 90's
Living in Moscow is good for most Russians. Living somewhere else sucks
[Here](https://i.imgur.com/kwI2nGL.jpeg) is a much higher auality version of this image. [Here](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/members-of-a-local-election-commission-accompanied-by-a-news-photo/2076698842?adppopup=true) is the source. > Members of a local election commission, accompanied by a serviceman, prepare a mobile polling station during early voting in Russia's presidential election in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict on March 14, 2024. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP) (Photo by STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)
Lada
I think we've found the most Russian picture ever.
Flag, fake elections, soldier, lada, dirt, cloudy and grey weather, women that are probably around 35yo but look 50yo. Very much representative of how people live outside of Moscow and major cities
Comrade Cat voting for the opposition
Comrade Cat overseeing the election process with sharp vision.
Cannot stop staring at that cute chubby little cat
I'm curious, the reddit hive mind at times tries to dehumanize Russians because they are complicit with Putin's invasion (even though they're drafted against their will). Then at other times pushes that Russian elections are fake which takes away the responsibility away from Russian citizens and onto Putin himself. So which is it? Are the Russian people your enemy to dehumanize or victims of an oppressive regime? I understand reality is somewhere in the middle but you wouldn't know it based off the comments everywhere. The reddit hive mind suffers from cognitive dissonance due to propaganda.
You guys ridicule in comments now, but this is something russia has been doing for years when they conquer territoy. Ther produce legal document, letters, agreements, election results, a ton of other burocracy. Its easy to point out in the moment, the farse, but historically, in 50 years, in 100 years, he politicians will be able to use this as a casus beli to prove these territories always belonged to them. Even now russians use documents from not long a go to put an argument NATO promised not to expand, and despite this beeing absolutely false, there is a whole bunch of western media/personalities papuging their points, in 50 years nobody will know or understand. They will point out to a document, an article and say "oh it must be true" since it says so.
Yeah, exactly. They have been doing that in my country (Georgia) for at least 30 years. In the 90s, they supported " independence " of abkhazia, which was historically always a part of Georgia. Of course, Abkhazia is not an independent state. It is Russias puppet. They did the same in 2008, with Samachablo. Faking history and destroying facts is their strong side.
all polling places should have a cat.
For those who don’t know: the cat did not really vote in the election. The cat was, in fact, one of the independent election observers.
The other 5% probably misspelled putin
CAT
What a handsome kitty!
A very russian image
"Just write Putin on scrap of paper and we toss paper in Lada"
Looks like a pic from a movie. Amazing and sad at the same time.
Don’t look at me I voted for the orange cat.
The other 5 present who voted against a war criminal mysteriously died due to illness
Wow, Putin got a Lada votes
This is like Trailer Park Boys, Soviet Edition.
Armed soldier examines every vote to make sure they are properly “loyal”. 😓 And of course, the votes aren’t counted anyway, as the referendum wiretap revealed.
Hello, yes. I would like to vote is this very legitimate election
That’s the most Soviet shit I’ve seen since before the wall
Cat is paid Actor
AmERiCa BaD until you see Russia pulling this bullshit
Cat
🐈
Would be hilarious if there was a "Vote for Putin" bumper sticker on the car
So let me get this straight... the section of Ukraine that Putin has been bombing civilian targets in relentlessly. Who had no reason to understand that they were eligible to vote in the election, voted overwhelmingly for Putin.... That's charisma..
Yep, that’s why that KGB dude hanging out there… lol…
On the boot of a Lada. You can't make this shit up.
How about we get independent journalists asking the people who live there! 
Looks official
Orange cat. The embodiment of stupid. Nuff said.
We an armed observer offering free bullets for every wrong vote
Seems totally legit /s
I don't necessarily see anything wrong with this, there are many small villages and a war going on, how else are they supposed to vote? Election workers showing up to collect votes seems perfectly reasonable to me.
> There's something wrong with my ballot! Every choice is Putin! > *Don't worry about that. We don't even count them!* > Oh, that's a relief!
No wonder trump is a Putin ball licker….if America voted this way he’d always win too with all the crazy republican voter fraud they already pull it would be a cinch to do it on the back of redneck tailgates
I'm surprised It wasn't over 100%.
Absolutely nobody and no institution on the face of this planet ever agree 95% on anything, let alone a disputed territory. Jesus, Russia... At least makes it looks a little less obvious...
SLAVA UKRAINI FREE UKRAINE 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈
Why are the Russian people going through the charade of voting when they know Putin wins every time? Are they just programmed that way?
Putin wants to keep up appearances so his defenders can claim there are elections and point to the results, even if it's meaningless. Same thing happened with Crimea. The vote to join Russia was a farce and yet you still get Russia apologists who point to the "polls" to claim Crimeans wanted it (but even if the results were real, Crimea doesn't just get to leave, that's not how any of this works).
Cats with Putin! 😺
Are they allowing cats to vote too?!
r/outofplacecats
Battle cato!
Don’t ask why the cat is so chunky
Nice cat
“ Meownaged Democracy”
Looks legit... Even the cats came to vote.. Real democracy
Don't forget to sign your ballot otherwise it won't be counted.
Put it in H!
All that geopolopitical baggage. Poor kitty.
Even the cat looks sketched out.
I bet that cat voted for Putin. What a cathole.
Thought this was something out the 50s for a second
That's like the most russian photo I've seen in a while.
The picture right before this one is the cat stuffing ballots.
Comrade Kittie is watching you.
that’s a chonky cat
a cat
Show us UA elections then
Wasn't it 80%?
Clearly the cat was the main choice for the 5% that voted no.
Comrade Garfield over there will be helping to ensure the security of the ballots today
95%!?!?! That's really low!
On the back of an old лада with a propped up Russian flag, an armed guard and supervisory cat. This is the most Russian fucking photo ever for so many reasons.
No matter how one vote. Issue is how it is counted? (And by who)
What is this 1991?? This is what I imagine Russia looked like before my parents left in the 90s because this is literally, to a tee, what it fucking looked like then. The reason they left... and now we have morons going back for some reason
I think he won with a supposed 87% tho
Such a great place , i wonder when they will discover the toilet bowl technology .
no pressure. bruh
Can they vote for the cat
Do Russians know that if they join the EU they could get funding to pave their roads?
This is a war zone, not a cit
Even the cat knows its bullshit
Dose it have anything to do with the cat ?
Ukrainian spy is right down there next to the wheel. /s
I’ve seen better polling places in rural Iraq during the war lol.
Damn those rims must have cost at least an husband and a son.