Why Putin's rigged Russian election still matters

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🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Russia’s presidential election doesn’t take place until March – yet we already know the result. Vladimir Putin will beat the other 3 ‘candidates’ with ease to retake his place as president. But does that mean the vote doesn’t matter at all? Or could we still learn something from the result? Chris Jones talks to András Tóth-Czifra, fellow in the Eurasia program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and author of Controlling the Narrative: A Roadmap to Russia’s 2024 Presidential Election, in The Bunker. • “These elections are not taking place in a democracy – so it would be foolish to analyse them as if they were.” – András Tóth-Czifra • 'For the Kremlin this is a vital test of the officialdom – the political machinery that the federal government relies on to control the country.’ András Tóth-Czifra András’ research: https://www.fpri.org/article/2023/12/controlling-the-narrative-a-roadmap-to-russias-2024-presidential-election/ Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and Presented by Chris Jones. Produced by: Eliza Davis Beard and Chris Jones. Audio production: Jade Bailey. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:14.8	There are three official candidates running against current President Vladimir Putin.
1:19.7	In any normal democracy that would mean they might have a chance of winning but this is
1:24.9	no normal democracy it isn't really a democracy at all there is no chance
1:30.1	Putin will lose this election not whilst he's alive anyway.
1:34.0	That doesn't mean though that Putin's hold over the Russian public will last forever.
1:38.6	The longer this war continues in Ukraine, the more money he will be forced to spend on it weakening his
1:44.1	position and potentially his popularity and just because we know who's going to
1:48.8	win this election doesn't mean we can't learn anything from it.
1:53.0	So to help me get into the details of all of this, I'm joined from New York by Andrash Tott Zifra,
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