It would be pretty cool if he actually won and implemented his program, but does he actually have a chance at winning?
And even if he won, how much would he actually be able to do? I wouldn't imagine the Russian oligarchy will let him do anything without significant opposition or even a coup attempt, since his plan revolves around striping them of there property.
Absolutely based; unfortunately Putin is going to rig the election like usual and the KPRF will end up with something from 40 to 90 seats.
It's not Putin I'm worried about, it's some nameless vodka plutocrat hiding a hitman.
No need to do something like that when Putin rigs the election every time.
*hiring, sorry
Putin isn't immortal, though, and AFAIK he doesn't have any proteges. I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility for someone to act on their own to try and stamp out a popular resurgence of Russian communism. Hell, maybe even a foreign government.
Putin already centralized power out of the hands of the oligarchs into the Kremlin. If you have told me that in the 90s I'd agree with you, but the Russian state has been growing in power and seizing main industries away from the oligarchs. There will be still be resistance, but it'd be cheaper for the oligarchs to just fuck off to Switzerland or something instead of trying to put up a fight with almost no popular support (oligarchs are seen as gangsters and tieves amongst the population).
I'm Russian political activist, and he's our best shot in 30 years to seriously swing left.
Communist Party of Russian Federation was in crisis: people there were fighting over leadership, so they manage to force the outside bet.
United Russia is the establishment. Any person benefits to become a member for better legal protection and contacts and all that, especially a businessman.
Putin is very limited in how much he can actually tamper the elections - he he did not, actually, rig them this much at all. What he does is using political technologies beforehand to favourably mold political landscape in the first place.
