The Intelligence: Russia’s sham election
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🗓️ 15 March 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Voting begins today in an election that has already been won – all the opposition politicians are dead, in prison or in exile. Vladimir Putin wants to give the illusion of legitimacy. Will the rumblings of a protest deprive him of that goal? There is evidence that Sudan is becoming the latest theatre of the Ukraine war (09:25). And, a tribute to the father of Dragon Ball Z (15:49).
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| 0:45.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:47.0 | And I'm Ora Okenby. |
| 0:49.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:57.0 | It's all shrouded and circumstantial, but it seems increasingly clear that Ukraine has forces fighting in Sudan. We ask how Ukraine's |
| 1:05.4 | war at home might be helped by its efforts in Africa. |
| 1:08.6 | And I don't think you can truly call yourself a manga fan if you don't know who |
| 1:16.4 | Torayama Akira is. Our obituaries editor pays tribute to the father of |
| 1:21.4 | Dragon Ball Z. But first. |
| 1:40.0 | In most cases. |
| 1:37.0 | In most cases here on the intelligence, we cover the results of an election |
| 1:47.7 | after it's actually taken place. But the results of Russia's election for which voting starts today are already known. |
| 1:57.0 | The presidential candidate, known as Vladimir Putin, the country's longest serving dictator since Joseph Stalin, will be re-elected. |
| 2:07.0 | So this is not really an election because the definition of election is that it offers a choice and the essence of this election |
| 2:14.8 | is the absence of choice. |
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