Election Results May Encourage Putin to Further Escalate War: Risks Identified
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Russian dictator Vladimir Putin may present the election results as proof that Russians are prepared to endure economic hardship while the government pursues its military goals of forcing Ukraine to capitulate.
Read: After the Kremlin's election: Four tasks top Putin's to-do list The official results from Russia's parliamentary elections give Vladimir Putin's party an emphatic victory in the vote that the president...
Russian newspapers after the "election": Putin won the referendum, the people chose war - The state and regime media immediately launched a campaign in which they present the election results as a kind of referendum on support for the war in Ukraine
The results of the elections for the State Duma are interpreted by Kremlin as a confirmation of people's support for the war in Ukraine and for Vladimir Putin's foreign policy. The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) warns that the Russian President could use the results as a hand release to continue the war and justify new military measures, including possible mobilization and future aggressive actions.
About the Russian elections (or “elections”), in principle, everything is known. In authoritarian countries, elections are seen as an oath of allegiance to their leader. And the higher the result is announced, the more the regime uses it as proof of its own legitimacy. Putin, of course, will use these results as proof that the Russians support the war. How much this corresponds to reality is a separate question. But in a system where the decisio…
Russia's ruling United Russia party achieved a better result in the State Duma "elections" held late last week than in the "elections" five years ago, winning a constitutional majority. "Voter turnout" was also higher than five years ago, Russian authorities claim. These undoubtedly fabricated figures look like exactly the result that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin wanted and which "confirm" the majority of society's support for his aggressive …
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