Posted on 01/19/2023 8:20:51 AM PST by marcusmaximus
The Kremlin has started preparing for the 2024 presidential campaign under the assumption that it will go on as planned despite Russia’s grinding military campaign in Ukraine, the Kommersant business daily reported Friday, citing unnamed sources.
President Vladimir Putin, 70, has been in power as president or prime minister since 1999. While Russian presidents are constitutionally limited to two terms, he gained the ability to seek election for a fifth term under 2020 constitutional amendments that reset the number of terms he has served.
The Kremlin’s domestic policy bloc believes Putin will seek re-election in 2024, Kommersant reported, adding that it had recently held preliminary talks with experts on the main components of his campaign.
“The outlines of the ideological component are still unclear, though it is assumed that it will be based on the theme of unity,” the publication said.
Russia’s next presidential election is scheduled for March 17, 2024.
Russia’s upper house of parliament is expected to kick off the presidential campaign in December 2023.
This fall’s regional elections across two dozen regions, including the Ukrainian territories Russia claims to have annexed, are expected to serve as a “testing ground” for next year’s ballot, according to Kommersant.
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Guy looks embalmed...not as bad as Biden but Putie is 10 yrs younger...
“Election” is that a Russian joke?
Growing up in the 60s and 70s, I remember the old Soviet “elections”. Amazing how ours have become what theirs once were. (And theirs have never changed.)
Mail in ballots?
But, you and your sources have said he’s already dead or will be dead soon from blood, thyroid or stomach cancer. How could he possibly run again in 2024?
St. Patrick’s Day?......................Get the SNAKE OUT of Ukraine!.....................
Putin has hired Dominion. No worries.
More years of Biden and Putin—the string pullers like ‘em old and senile.
Election? Ha ha ha.
See my post 4 above, either you weren’t alive or not paying attention. I’m guessing too young.
History is your friend.
Not sure what you mean, but I didn't follow Soviet elections in the 1970s. Outside the Party apparatus, Soviet elections didn't exist.
But as far as Russia goes, one of Alexei Navalny's main complaints about Putin's 2018 election was that Putin had a few cronies running the electoral districts (and thus, the ballot-tabulating machines) in several key districts in St. Petersburg and Moscow.
Sound familiar?
The West is in desperation mode. They are throwing feces against the wall and hoping something sticks. Completely bereft of strategy. The decision to try to send U.K. and German tanks to Ukraine is the most recent indicator that London, Berlin and Washington are hitting the panic button.
ussian military forces, with the Wagner Group leading the charge, has breached the Bakhmut, Soledar, Siversk line of defense. While Ukrainian troops continue to occupy Bakhmut and Siversk, the Russians are grinding on and appear to have effected a tactical encirclement of Bakhmut. Taking Bakhmut and clearing settlements to the south of Ukrainian forces is a critical step in forging genuine security for Donetsk. When Bakhmut falls expect an uptick in the wailing and gnashing of teeth in London and Washington. They will be tempted to launch more desperate gambits.
The question for the Kremlin is “will Putin win 85% of the vote or 79%”
No wonder the dems love Putin
Update on the conflict in Ukraine for January 18, 2023.
- Bakhmut faces encirclement by Russian forces;
- The Netherlands is considering sending Patriot missile systems after West blames Russia for residential building strike;
- Ukrainian presidential adviser Arestovich has resigned after suggesting the building was hit because of a failed Ukrainian interception of a Russian cruise missile;
- The building strike appears to be serving as a pretext for a planned escalation by the US and its allies;
- Ukraine also lost its interior minister to a helicopter crash;
- The Western media admits current aid to Ukraine is not sufficient, although suggested increases will unlikely turn the tide;
- The US and its allies are preparing for their monthly meeting discussing expanded military aid to Ukraine on January 20, 2023;
Gee, I wonder who’s going to win this election. Gonna be a real nailbiter.
Link to full remarks: http://shorturl.at/uwOT4
INTERVIEW: #Ukraine is throwing in troops to face certain death defending #Bakhmut
"INTERVIEW:#Kyiv installed three defensive lines but the Russians are gradually grinding through them, explains #GonzaloLira. #Soledar, which has fallen, was the penultimate town of the penultimate defence line
The Brits have a grand total of 227 Challenger 2 tanks.
I would hope their going to be parsimonious in lending giving any away.
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