The little mistress of the CEC, Ellochka, demands that foreign agents, emigrants...
The little mistress of the CEC, Ellochka, demands that foreign agents, emigrants, and other enemies of the regime be kept away from the trough of Russian democracy.
This initiative by the Russian CEC has deep, solid roots.
The early Soviet state defined the category of "disenfranchised persons" - that is, people who were directly forbidden from taking part in voting at any level.
Only politically reliable citizens with a certificate of proletarian origin were granted the right to dip their snouts into the sacred slops of Soviet democracy, let alone blow bubbles there and slurp away.
Only they had the right to elect.
There was a certain logic to that.
Otherwise all sorts of Lieutenant Golitsyns, Cornet Obolenskys, and other leftovers not quite finished off would have come running to the ballot boxes.
Everything repeated itself, as if by magic, in the 21st century.
Today's emigration, having learned of Ellochka's scheme, has already howled in heartfelt pain.
Why exactly the relocants suddenly got the urge to take part in the rituals of Russian fascism is not entirely clear.
Four and a half years of war, the thickening insanity of the "Russian world," repression, and growing vileness should by now have produced absolute disgust toward any procedures coming out of Moscow.
All the more so toward its elections.
Russian emigrants will be stripped of the right to voteHead of the CEC Ella Pamfilova proposed banning emigrants and "foreign agents" from voting in elections, and also closing Russian polling stations in "unfriendly" countries. The official said this in an interview with "Komsomolskaya Pravda Radio." "Left the country, betrayed it - get out," Pamfilova added.
Nevzorov
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Voting Will Be Kept For Insiders
Pamfilova wants emigrants and foreign agents barred from voting, with polling stations abroad closed.
Democracy is guarded by exclusion again.