Jacobin Radio: Russia's Election w/ Ilya Matveev

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🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Suzi talks to Ilya Matveev about the recent election in Russia giving Putin a fifth term in power—an election he argues was stage-managed from above. Matveev discusses how the Putin government, with increasing nationalist propaganda, has stepped up repression and persecution of critical voices against the war in Ukraine. He talks about Kremlin policy of silencing independent media, stopping public displays of opposition, and detaining critics with large prison sentences. While the economy hasn’t tanked—the war has provided a source for military Keynesianism—Matveev insists that Putin's ability to order an exact electoral result is a sign of weakness, not stability. The horrific terror attack of March 22 underscores that Putin is not managing everything well, even though he has cynically used the attack to blame Ukraine.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Jacobab and Radio. I'm Susie Weisman. On today's program we spend the hour with
0:18.8	Eelian McVeigh to get his insights and analysis of the recent so-called election giving Putin a fifth term
0:26.2	in power, an election that was stage-managed and fraudulent with the exact result ordered from
0:32.0	above.
0:32.6	What was the point?
0:34.4	Repression and persecution of critical voices against the war in Ukraine and Kremlin policy
0:39.6	have been stepped up dramatically, as has nationalist and anti-Western propaganda.
0:45.0	The independent media has been silenced.
0:48.0	Public displays of opposition are immediately stopped and critics detained with growing sentences in prison.
0:54.4	The economy hasn't tanked and the wars provided a source for military Keynesianism.
1:00.0	Yet Mavey insist that Putin's being able to order an exact electoral result is a sign of weakness, not one of stability.
1:08.0	The horrific terror attack of March 22nd underscores that Putin is not managing everything.
1:14.4	We'll get Ilion MacVayev's analysis of the character of Putin's autocratic dictatorial
1:19.7	rule.
1:20.7	Is it Bonapartist authoritarian oligarchic capitalist Stalinist fascist or?
1:27.0	Well, we'll get his take when our program returns in just a moment. Welcome to Jacobin Radio, I'm Susie Wiseman and very pleased to have Eelian
1:44.8	Meantveyev back with us and we're going to be talking about Russian
1:48.8	elections, Russian society, Russian politics, Russian economy, and even the terror attack on Moscow.
1:55.8	So let's just begin with Putin just won his fifth term in the Russian elections that have shown
2:01.5	to be both fraudulent and meaningless as
2:04.8	Ilia has pointed out. Putin ordered a certain turnout and got a certain result and
2:10.1	Ilia McVeigh is is a what do I call it a chronic tweeter and he tweeted
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