Posted on 07/02/2020 6:32:04 AM PDT by Salman
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russians opened the door to Vladimir Putin staying in power until 2036 by voting overwhelmingly for constitutional changes that will allow him to run again for president twice, but critics said the outcome was falsified on an industrial scale.
Official results published on Thursday, after 100% of ballots had been counted, showed that the former KGB officer who has ruled Russia for more than two decades as president or prime minister had easily won the right to run for two more six-year terms after the current one ends in 2024.
That means Putin, 67, could rule until the age of 83.
The Central Election Commission said 77.9% of votes counted across the world’s largest country had supported changing the constitution. Just over 21.2% had voted against, it said.
Ella Pamfilova, head of the commission, said the vote had been transparent and that officials had done everything to ensure its integrity.
Opposition politician Alexei Navalny had a different view and called the vote an illegitimate and illegal show designed to legalise Putin’s presidency for life.
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So America’s foreign policy doesn’t always stand firm against the president for life.
BTW, Biden is 77.
They never hated the Tsar so long as he was a GOOD Tsar.
Putin makes very good Tsar. They like; they keep.
Russians very utilitarian that way; very much like Depression Era U.S.A. — if it works; don’t fix it.
Putin actually does a good balancing act of acknowledging the Soviet past as well as the Tsarist past. He gets it, that your history is your history, the good and the bad, and erasing it isn’t the answer.
Putin is the next Brezhnev. He is cementing himself in the long line of Soviet dictators.
Also remember that Putin said that the collapse of the USSR was the greatest catastrophe of the 20th Century, and that he would love a “restored” USSR. He also compared Communism to Christianity and said that Lenin is akin to a “saint”. And, Putin has allowed the rehabilitation of Joseph Stalin, something even the USSR didn’t allow from Khrushchev’s ascension to its “fall”.
‘Also remember that Putin said that the collapse of the USSR was the greatest catastrophe of the 20th Century, and that he would love a “restored” USSR.’
Fake. The original frase was the opposite meaning.
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