#putincriminal

[salvo-love]

#Alaska - The wolf eats the lamb - #Putin continues to mock #Trump. There's no agreement. @realDonaldTrump doesn't know Putin's history, much less the history of imperial #Russia. It would be enough to read the #history of #Kaliningrad. Too much faith in a #war #criminal. Putin👎

#Alaska - The wolf eats the lamb - #Putin continues to mock #Trump. There's no agreement. @realDonaldTrump doesn't know Putin's history, much less the history of imperial #Russia. It would be enough to read the #history of #Kaliningrad. Too much faith in a #war #criminal. Putin👎

#Alaska - The wolf eats the lamb - #Putin continues to mock #Trump. There's no agreement. @realDonaldTrump doesn't know Putin's history, much less the history of imperial #Russia. It would be enough to read the #history of #Kaliningrad. Too much faith in a #war #criminal. Putin👎

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

With prizes, food, housing and cash, Putin rigged Russia's most recent vote

The recent vote in Russia supporting Vladimir Putin's constitutional reforms was pure theater and obscures growing friction between state and society.

Like many international observers, I am disgusted by Putin’s fraudulent Constitutional bribes in order to allow himself power until 2036. This is the last resort of a man who knows that were he to leave office, he would face rigorous investigation, imprisonment, or worse. 

Putin is fraud, a liar, a thief, and someone with the blood of hundreds of thousands on his hands. Unsurprisingly, allegations of vote rigging abound, with a Russian electoral expert, Sergey Shpilkin, estimating that up to 20 million votes were falsified.

Only a coward would strangle the Constitution in order to protect his own criminal empire. International observers should respond by maintaining sanctions on Russian officials involved in human rights abuses, including asset freezes and visa denials. 

By depriving Putin of the money he has stolen from Russian taxpayers over the last 20 years, his hold on power will weaken. While a slight majority of Russians want Putin re-elected (source: Levada poll, 52%), this does not mean they are ignorant of the declining living standards in that country-- more likely they may believe that nobody else could govern the country. 

But with the Kremlin’s disgraceful response to the coronavirus pandemic, even those wanting Putin re-elected will be forced to face the reality (once again), that this man cares for no one but himself.