Ella Pamfilova’s remarks come ahead of next month’s regional elections across Russia, as well as the 2024 presidential election, in which President Vladimir Putin is expected to seek re-election for a fifth term in office. Sources close to the presidential administration told the independent Meduza news website last month that regional authorities have been tasked with ensuring no less than 80% of the votes for the Russian leader.

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    “What is happening today in the West? That kind of democracy isn’t the rule of the majority, it’s the rule of the minority. We don’t need such a democracy.”

    Okay, fine. I will reluctantly agree with her on that ONE single point. The US electoral college system is hot garbage.

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      That’s (most likely) not what she means. Not least because most Western countries don’t have an electoral college (but please do get rid of that institution:)). Instead, what she is probably referring to is developing respect for minorities aka “PC”, “wokeness” and “LGBTQ propaganda” (paraphraseling right-wing talking points here).

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        what she is probably referring to is developing respect for minorities

        What she is “referring to” is the fact that she lives in a dictatorship and she would likely end up in jail simply for discussing democracy.

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    In soviet Russia, it is not the citizen who decide who in going to govern, it is the government who decides who is going to be a citizen.

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    Statement should have read “Putin does not need Western democracy.” Suppose that would get Ella defenestrated, though.