Vladimir Kara-Murza on Russia's So-Called 'Election'

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🗓️ 6 April 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Vladimir Kara-Murza is the vice chairman of Open Russia, founder of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation and a contributing opinion writer for the Washington Post. On Wednesday, Kara-Murza spoke to Alina Polyakova about last month's presidential elections in Russia, the poisoning of Sergei Skirpal, and the future of Russia under and after Putin.

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0:25.6	no bull and the aftermath.
0:30.4	Well, to those who say that Vladimir Putin is popular among Russian citizens, I just have
0:37.1	one question.
0:38.1	Why is such a popular leader so afraid of a free election?
0:40.7	Why is he so afraid of letting his people, his citizens freely choose their government?
0:44.7	You know, somebody who has 86% support would not need to rig election after election after
0:49.4	election.
0:50.4	He would not need to censor the media, keep his opponents off the television screens.
0:54.3	He would not need to beat up and arrest peaceful demonstrators.
0:57.3	That is the behavior of not of somebody who is genuiney popular, that is the behavior
1:00.6	regime that is weak and insecure and all this so-called popularity.
1:04.2	And you look, we had elections in the Soviet Union as well in which there was a 99% official
1:09.1	report turnout of which 99% voted for the candidates of the block of communist and non-party
1:14.0	people.
1:15.0	Does anybody actually believe that?
1:16.0	I mean, there are all the dictatorships of this world.
1:18.0	Including even North Korea, go through the pretence of holding core-on-core elections.
1:22.2	Putin's regime is, of course, much more clever and creative about this than the way
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