Can anybody guess which percentage of the population participated in the elections to the Russian Parliament (the Duma) in Rostov area?
A little over 146%! (The link is in Russian, but you can still see the numbers and add them up for yourself.) This is true civic consciousness for you. Here we barely get 60% of the population to vote while in Russia more voters come to the polls than actually live in the area.
This is either a case ofDead Souls immortalized by the great Russian writer Gogol, or the ruling party of Russia has become even more shameless than it used to be.
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Citizens can vote for more than one party in Russian parliamentary elections.
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No. If you put a cross next to more than one party, your voting ballot becomes invalid. (And the vote will go to the ruling party.)
Here is what the ballot has to say about it: http://www.ria.ru/infografika/20111202/504318586.html (the link is in Russian).
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Dead Souls is a good book. I wish I could buy the right to own dead people and take out a loan using them as collateral. No wait I don’t that’s fucking weird and sick.
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of course, they all want a man like Putin! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk_VszbZa_s
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Hilarious! Thank you!
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