03/03: Putin and Medvedev Address the Crowd on Red Square
Category: Thoughts
Posted by: waytorussia
Dmitry Medvedev became the new president of Russia, winning with over 70% of votes. Yesterday he and Putin went to the Red Square where the Russian band Lube (quite awful but patriotic music) were having a concert, and addressed the people.
Watch the video from the Russia Today channel (which is a disgrace to TV industry):
(Putin and Medvedev appear about halfway through the video)
Even though they say all the right things, the fact that it was Lube's concert is a bit annoying, plus watching it on this Russia Today's Russian propaganda channel is not very pleasant too... The presenter in the beginning has a severe right brow condition :)
Regarding the election and the results, there was no other alternative really. Zyuganov is a communist (got about 19%), Zhirinovsky is ultra-nationalist (some say that he's fake, and was created just to take away the votes from the potential real ones - nevertheless he got 10%), and Bogdanov looks more like a Turkish pop band singer (got 1%). So-called opposition Kasyanov wouln't have any chances anyway, so many people believe he just chose to be banned from elections. The was no point for Kremlin to get rid of him, because he wouldn't be of any competition. Hence the results...
Watch the video from the Russia Today channel (which is a disgrace to TV industry):
(Putin and Medvedev appear about halfway through the video)
Even though they say all the right things, the fact that it was Lube's concert is a bit annoying, plus watching it on this Russia Today's Russian propaganda channel is not very pleasant too... The presenter in the beginning has a severe right brow condition :)
Regarding the election and the results, there was no other alternative really. Zyuganov is a communist (got about 19%), Zhirinovsky is ultra-nationalist (some say that he's fake, and was created just to take away the votes from the potential real ones - nevertheless he got 10%), and Bogdanov looks more like a Turkish pop band singer (got 1%). So-called opposition Kasyanov wouln't have any chances anyway, so many people believe he just chose to be banned from elections. The was no point for Kremlin to get rid of him, because he wouldn't be of any competition. Hence the results...
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