That’s parliamentary elections and as the article stated they rubber stamp everything that the kremlin decides to do.
The wildcard is Putin himself. He has apparently been particularly paranoid about covid personally and essentially isolated for 2 years.
I just don’t buy into the idea that Putin doesn’t have an ironclad grip on Russia.
My point is he still has support of the majority of Russians outside of urban areas. That means he is supported by the vast majority of Russians. War solidifies support initially. When it goes bad that support erodes quickly. I think a lot of people are jumping to conclusions here.
The people protesting are not suddenly turning. We don’t have hundreds of thousands in the streets. Russia is a huge country and Putin would win in a huge landslide in an election if held right now. But if things do t go so well in Ukraine it’s a different story.
Zelensky’s grandfather barely survived the Holocaust. With that said, given free reign by Germany, there have been unspeakable murders of Jews by Ukrainians during the war. Same for other countries notably Poland.
My grandparents came over from Ukraine circa 1910. On my grandmother’s papers upon entry at Ellis Island the country of origin is listed as Russia as that area (Berdychiv-about is 100 miles SW of Kyiv) was Russia for about 500 years from the Middle Ages until post USSR.
I honestly think Russia will install a puppet and then be forced to occupy Ukraine during the inevitable insurgence. That could be a bigger problem than they imagined. No doubt they’re heading elsewhere but it won’t be so clean in Ukraine and they could unwittingly be dealing themselves a huge blow. My main concern is whether or not Putin has sanity at the level he has historically had. People saying something is off and some really disturbing language .
2 hour finish to cleanup. 6.8”-probably final. 17 degrees. Deep winter. I’ve had a one footer and a 2 footer and another 7 incher. By far this was the toughest to shovel and blow.
5 inches. All snow but growth has been poor. Actually no sooner do I type that growth improves and snow increases in intensity. It was pretty heavy with poor growth in my pee sleep break at 7:30 but I slept till 9:30 afterwards.