Ahead of the Russian election, independent journalist and TV Rain news anchor Ekaterina Kotrikadze gives unique insight into the treacherous job of reporting the truth in Putin’s Russia.
On March 17 there will be an event in Russia which out of habit we will call an election. But of course, there are no elections there anymore. Instead, this is the reappointment of Vladimir Putin to the highest position in the largest country in the world. In 2003, when Putin was still a young president, I was a student at the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University. This was my first parliamentary election.
The upcoming elections are taking place without a single influential competitor to Putin. It seems there is no need to even imitate democracy anymore. Russia is experiencing this shame in depression and grief. A month before voting day, it appears 47-year-old Alexey Navalny was killed in a penal colony beyond the Arctic Circle. I say “killed” because in my view this crime is obvious.
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