Russia stood for beginning to break down. And therefore i think that most of these elections really going to be in some ways referenda on just how well the local administration is is seen as dealing with what is sometimes serious crises sometimes not and it doesnt necessarily mean that where were trying to hold people will be voting against the regime but i think this is this is why its important and this is why in some ways the the whole issue of the protests in moscow absolutely very important but theyre also a distraction from what local elections are meant to be about which is precisely its about local issues the reason im asking this is because in several of your interviews are heard you say that russian elections im not real elections and admittedly there is so fraud and manipulation going on some of it being caught on camera installed at the expense of the state but there also i would. Say some positive developments i mean last than a year ago the whole gubernatorial elections i
A year ago the whole gubernatorial elections in the forest wrecked cancelled because of the fraud and arguably this is a much more unusual than protests in moscow dont you think that there is perhaps a day attention is being skewed from russia as a whole as a country to you know just a couple of individuals who are aiming for that attention. I wouldnt want to make it that i mean to go would go into my point about elections not being real elections my point in that is that i mean there is no in my opinion truly meaningful opposition within this is the systemic opposition parties the cold minutes the socalled liberal democrats and so forth secondly there is a huge mobilization of administered resource before its not just about stuffing ballot boxes its also about precisely who gets what posters and so forth now that does not mean that this is not democratic. In the sense of that there is no democracy this is not a no for a terrorism pretending to be a democracy this is a a strange system
Admittedly there is still fraud and manipulation going on some of it being caught on camera is installed at the expense of the state but there also i would say some positive developments i mean the last in the year ago the whole gubernatorial elections in the forest red canceled because of the fraud and arguably this is that much more unusual than protests in moscow dont you think that there is perhaps a day attention is being skewed from russia as a whole as a country to you know just a couple of individuals who are aiming for that attention. I wouldnt want to make it that i mean to go would go into my point about elections not being real elections my point in that is that i mean there is no in my opinion truly meaningful opposition within this is the systemic opposition parties the cold minutes the socalled liberal democrats and so forth secondly there is a huge mobilization of administered resource before its not just about stuffing ballot boxes its also about precisely who gets wha
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