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“What will happen inside the Russian Federation after the “elections”?

Putin’s regime will turn to terror to “cement” Putin’s regime of permanent power.

Most likely, this is Putin’s last election. Further, he will prolong his rule by other means.

🔹 The election will record more than 80% of the vote for Putin. In the status of a non-alternative leader, he will claim lifetime power.
🔹 The next presidential election will either be canceled or held as a referendum with a single candidate. The proclamation of Putin’s special status as a “national leader” cannot be ruled out.
🔹 Political activity in the Russian Federation will be minimized. Putin will further rely on fear and obedience.
🔹 Having become the sole ruler, Putin will need the population not as a carrier of votes but as a resource to achieve his goals.
🔹 Any attempts at resistance will be harshly repressed. Dissenters will be declared “enemies of the people.” The punitive apparatus will be strengthened and empowered.
🔹 Putin’s power will be held on bayonets and truncheons. The Interior Ministry, National Guard, and special services will have new opportunities to control every Russian - virtually every action of a person will be recorded.
🔹 The police and the National Guard will actively recruit war veterans. Everything they did in the war, they will also do in relation to the Russian population.
🔹 The practice of punishment will be expanded not for actions but for the potential of actions: by denunciations, by monitoring social networks, for “preventive purposes.” The FSIN will become one of the most influential agencies in Russia.
🔹 The Federal Penitentiary Service will expand the possibilities of “reception” of Russian citizens. It will “sort” the sharply increased number of prisoners. The political ones will sit in harsh conditions. The rest will be sent to war or forced labor.
🔹 The FSIN reports directly to the president. In the long term, the Service will become an important pillar of Putin’s personal power and an instrument of his defense against attempts to take away or limit that power.
🔹 A “Gulag 2.0” system will be created. The relevant informational and organizational work is already underway. Ideas for reviving the Gulag are already being discussed on television, and camps locations are being selected (Shoigu’s “five Siberian cities” are nothing else but camps upkeep infrastructure). The creation of a “digital Gulag” will be dramatically accelerated.
🔹 The real Gulag is for Russians potentially dangerous to the regime. For the rest - a “digital Gulag.”
🔹 The authorities have access to the biometric data of the population, to the records of all surveillance cameras, are working on turning Gosuslugi digital platform into an instrument of total surveillance, and are planning to introduce a “digital ruble,” any movement of which will be monitored.
🔹 Denunciations, inspections, harassment, and total control will become the norm. The approach of “denounce, or they will denounce you!” will be actively implemented in labor collectives, households, and informal groups.
🔹 Any initiative or activity will be suppressed and punished.
🔹 The country will “close” itself. External contacts will be sharply reduced. In the future - the introduction of exit visas. Everyone will be forced to live the way the authorities want. Russia will become similar to Iran and North Korea.
🔹 Adherence to “traditional values” will become obligatory. The authorities will control even the personal lives of Russians.
🔹 The circle of officially persecuted citizens will expand. After LGBT and political opposition, any other category can fall under repression - ethnic Ukrainians, Jews, Krishnaites, gamers, and other “non-traditional” categories.
🔹 The cult of Putin will become even more obsessive: portraits on streets and buildings, studies of his speeches in schools and universities, obligatory quotations in the press, and public oaths of allegiance to the “national leader.”

~ Anton Gerashchenko