Posted on 01/01/2023 10:42:05 AM PST by Salohcin
Mikhail Lobanov, a former candidate for Russia’s State Duma and a mathematics professor at Moscow State University, was arrested for 15 days for “disobeying police” during a search of his home. The raid was part of an investigation into politician Ilya Ponomarev spreading “fakes” about the Russian army. During the search, Lobanov was hit in the face and chest, and there was blood on the floor of the apartment, according to a tweet on the politician’s official Twitter profile. The police also took all the electronic equipment out of Lobanov’s home.
“The police quickly kicked down the door and questioned Lobanov in the apartment for more than three hours. They did not allow him to contact his lawyer, demanded he sign some papers and behaved in an unjustifiably cruel way, reported Mikhail's wife Alexandra Zapolskaya. During the search, the investigator mentioned the name ‘Ponomarev’ (probably referring to [politician] Ilya Ponomarev), with whom Lobanov is not acquainted or connected in any way,” said Lobanov’s Twitter page.
After the “search,” Lobanov was taken to the Ramenki district police department, and then to Moscow’s Nikulinsky district court, where he was charged for allegedly disobeying a police officer.
Mathematician Mikhail Lobanov ran for the Russia’s State Duma in the fall of 2021, after being nominated with the support of the Communist Party (CPRF), and backed by Alexei Navalny's “Smart Voting” campaign. Lobanov's main opponent in Moscow’s 197th Kuntsevo district single-mandate constituency was the TV propagandist Yevgeny Popov, supported by United Russia and Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin. Lobanov led with a margin of more than 10 thousand votes, but after the results of the remote electronic voting were published, it turned out that Popov had won. [emphasis added]
5hitty people doing 5hitty things in a 5hitty part of the world. This is happening in our country as well now.
Putin’s democratic Russia
And THIS is why we need to send $100 billion to Ukraine and risk nuclear war with Russia!
Putin Bad!
Sadly, I agree with you that the US is following Russia down the road of political repression and tyranny.
Nonetheless, I still have hope that with our democratic political heritage we can make a turnaround. I have no hope for Russia, whose political history has always been one of autocracy.
De Tocqueville was correct when he described the essential political differences between the US and Russia.
No, there are plenty of countries with repressive regimes. What makes Russia different is that it has invaded a neighboring country in a war of conquest.
Btw, do you also dismiss Russia’s rationale of “denazification” as justification for its invasion?
“So in at least one aspect Russia is more advanced than the U.S. Instead of using old fashioned mail they use remote electronic voting for their election fraud.”
How can the US be associated with ANY country (other than the US) that has election fraud?
As to 15 days in jail, let’s see how long Merrick Garland winds up putting Trump in the slammer.
Are you defending Russia’s political repression?
The part of our political background, and the advantage that the American People had over the Russian People, was that OUR advantageous background was a Constitution Representative Republic.
That there "democratic political heritage" is not American.
The United States Of America was not a Mob Rule Democracy until recently, with the Mob Rule installation of Joe Biden.
Installation of Mob Rule is necessary for Socialists to destroy the Constitution and install Socialist Tyranny.
I have no hope for Russia, whose political history has always been one of autocracy.
I would point out that Russians have never had the advantage of a genuine Constitution Representative Republic for any period of time.
They were FORCED form Autocracy to Western European invented Marxism, by a Foreign Engineered Mob Rule "Revolution".
America has gone Prog Liberal Socialist entirely voluntarily.
Something you should think about when condemning Peoples and Leaders.
“Are you defending Russia’s political repression?”
Nope, I’m attacking US political repression. I don’t claim Russia is a bunch of saints.
I was using “democracy” as described by de Tocqueville in his “Democracy in America”, not the pure democracy of mob rule. As described by de Tocqueville, American democracy includes our constitutional system and the “habits of mind” of the American people. It is with this heritage that I still have hope the US will turn back from the road to tyranny that the radical leftist Democrat Party is currently leading us.
I fully agree with you when you say that Russia has never had an opportunity for genuine constitutional representative republic. As for the Russian Revolution being foreign engineered, you are only partly correct. Although the Germans did send Lenin into Russia, the Russian people fully embraced him and his Communist Party. The Communists would not have been successful in the Russian Civil War if that was not the case.
This is not condemnation, it is just a description of reality. Russia’s autocratic political heritage will make it extremely difficult for a representative constitutional democracy emerge. Is it possible? Yes, but I don’t see any signs of it at the present.
Bob, so what are your views of Russia other than the US is just as bad?
Kudos, almost no one knows that. Even fewer people are aware of the source funding of Marx in his construction of the Communist Cult by Engels, to create an effective following.
the Russian people fully embraced him and his Communist Party
As much as the American People have embraced Antifa, BLM, Animal Rights, Global Warming Cult, Climate Change Cult, Climate Justice Cult, Homosexual Superiority Cult, ect.
The Russian People were sold a bill of goods, just like the American People, today.
However the Russian People were sold a Hundred Years ago when NO ONE knew what Commies were.
Americans, this morning, after a hundred years of warnings.
I'm afraid I have to disagree with you on the culpability of the Russian People.
He is a supporter of CPRF meaning he is a modern commie. Strange for this forum to support such guy.
“Bob, so what are your views of Russia other than the US is just as bad?”
Don’t know enough to make a complete call, but I know that there are things they don’t put up with that are now US policy (Grooming and uncontrolled immigration).
As it is, I certainly don’t think Ukraine is anything special, worth starting WW3 over - so my vote is let them settle things themselves.
The Russian Army sucks, and the whole World knows it.
Always whining about aid to Ukraine.
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