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Anti-War Challenger Duntsova Barred From Running Against Russia's Putin
U.S. News ^ | 12/23/2023 | Reuters

Posted on 12/23/2023 6:35:02 AM PST by marcusmaximus

Former TV journalist Yekaterina Duntsova was disqualified on Saturday from running against President Vladimir Putin in an election next March because of alleged flaws in her application to register as a candidate.

Video from a meeting of the central electoral commission showed members voting unanimously to reject the candidacy of Duntsova, who had wanted to run on a platform to end the war in Ukraine and release political prisoners.

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The head of the electoral commission, Ella Pamfilova, offered words of consolation to Duntsova after her rejection.

"You are a young woman, you have everything ahead of you. Any minus can always be turned into a plus. Any experience is still an experience," Pamfilova said.

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ballot; communism; duntsova; election; ellapamfilova; kremlin; politburo; russia; russiaiscommunist; sovietunion; theputin; yekaterinaduntsova
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1 posted on 12/23/2023 6:35:02 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

The differences between America and Russia are fading.


2 posted on 12/23/2023 6:37:10 AM PST by Spok (It takes a lot of learning to understand how little we know. (Paraphrasing Thomas Sowell.))
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To: Spok

They humiliated that woman by airing her rejection on Russian state TV.


3 posted on 12/23/2023 6:39:20 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus
Colorado Supreme Court bars president Trump from the state's primary ballot.

If anyone hasn't realized yet is that Zeeper neocons are just leftists with war groupie syndrome. Disgusting people.

4 posted on 12/23/2023 6:40:27 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: marcusmaximus
Anti-War Challenger Duntsova Trump Barred From Running Against Russia's Putin America's Biden.
5 posted on 12/23/2023 6:40:54 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: marcusmaximus
They humiliated that woman man by airing her his rejection on Russian American state TV.
6 posted on 12/23/2023 6:44:36 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: marcusmaximus

You would have to have a death wish to run against Putin. I know he’s a hero to some people on this form. But he’s not.


7 posted on 12/23/2023 6:46:51 AM PST by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis)
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To: wildcard_redneck

So are the Russia worshippers


8 posted on 12/23/2023 6:49:23 AM PST by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis)
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To: marcusmaximus

rigged game


9 posted on 12/23/2023 6:49:41 AM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - keeping Europe free of Russian invaders for 74 years - you're welcome!)
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To: Spok
--- "The differences between America and Russia are fading."

Yours is a most apt comment. Kudos, albeit sad agreement.

10 posted on 12/23/2023 6:53:44 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: roving
--- "You would have to have a death wish to run against Putin. I know he's a hero to some people on this form. But he's not."

No Putin "worshiper" here though some Freeper jackass trotted out the "Putin stooge" routine.

As to a death wish to run against Putin, some seemed to have done it, and others are already ginning up campaigns.

A source for the last election -- whether fair or not -- shows three names at the forefront: 2018 Russian presidential election

Pavel Grudinin, Communist party, and Vladimir Zhirinovsky, so-called right-wing LDPR, are still around.

So far, announced for the 2024 election are three candidates, two not dead. Same political parties more or less. Nikolay Kharitonov, a Commie, and Leonid Slutsky, LDPR.

That's just what one finds through Wiki.

And now a question based on your assertion: To whom on this forum is Putin an actual hero? I haven't found one, so you naming a Freeper who says Putin is their hero would assist.

11 posted on 12/23/2023 7:05:34 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: roving

My first thought. They saved her life.


12 posted on 12/23/2023 7:07:17 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time; BlackbirdSST

So you’re saying Putin and Democrats are the same

Very true, they’re both menaces to civilization, freedom, and good government!


13 posted on 12/23/2023 7:11:10 AM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - keeping Europe free of Russian invaders for 74 years - you're welcome!)
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--- "So you're saying Putin and Democrats are the same"

Clever boy. Of course, as you and I both know, that's the now-famous Cathy Newman BBC game. "So you're saying...."

I write what I write, and comment what I comment. And have no need of clever boys trying out their Cathy Newman gambit.

For example, and without any need for "so you're saying," a certain Freeper wrote, "I would rather the world end in nuclear war than yield to Little Pukin." I take the declaration at his (or her) verbatim statement, and don't play the "so you're saying..." game. Freepers of all sorts are able to say what they say without some Canuck interpreter playing at things.

14 posted on 12/23/2023 7:19:03 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

Small correction: Zhirinovsky passed away in 2022 but he definitely was not killed for running for President. He died as a complication of an illness (not sure 100% if Covid or something else).


15 posted on 12/23/2023 7:24:40 AM PST by billakay
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To: Spok
The differences between America and Russia are fading.

Oh, sure!

Russia fully embraces the LBGQTXYZ lifestyle. Have you seen those pics of rainbow flags marching in Red Square or the Kremlin?

16 posted on 12/23/2023 7:26:28 AM PST by icclearly (Q)
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To: marcusmaximus

Putin is just like Biden in knocking Trump off the ballot.


17 posted on 12/23/2023 7:32:21 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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--- "Small correction"

Thanks for the correction. I appreciate such. So many assertions are made in threads, especially over a "a controversial foreign war where we were not attacked," as Mr. Robinson has described it.

Best wishes for your holidays.

18 posted on 12/23/2023 7:32:51 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Spok

Now even in America, Television Watches You.


19 posted on 12/23/2023 7:36:28 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

YOU’RE the one that agreed with the comparison (post #10)

lol


20 posted on 12/23/2023 7:41:36 AM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - keeping Europe free of Russian invaders for 74 years - you're welcome!)
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