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A man was apprehended by police in Moscow for standing in the Red Square and holding a clean sheet of white paper. ovdinfo.org/express-news/2021/09/22/…
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Independent statistician Shpilkin says that the recent elections were fraudulent, and that Putin's United Russia party really received 31% to 35% of votes, and not the claimed 49%
He produces there charts to prove his point. I wish I were competent enough to understand whether these chart are fireproof evidence.
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@Cerberus Furthermore. Harald Hardrada, the guy whom Harold managed to kill on 25 September 1066, just before the fateful Battle of Hastings, was twice the guest of Prince Yaroslav the Wise at Staraya Ladoga, an ancient capital of Northern Russia. The wife of Yaroslav the Wise was a distant relative.
Harald Sigurdsson, also known as Harald of Norway (Old Norse: Haraldr Sigurðarson; c. 1015 – 25 September 1066) and given the epithet Hardrada (Old Norse: harðráði, modern Norwegian: Hardråde, roughly translated as "stern counsel" or "hard ruler") in the sagas, was King of Norway (as Harald III) from 1046 to 1066. In addition, he unsuccessfully claimed both the Danish throne until 1064 and the English throne in 1066. Before becoming king, Harald had spent around fifteen years in exile as a mercenary and military commander in Kievan Rus' and of the Varangian Guard in the Byzantine Empire.
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One aspect of how the elections were unfair may be how the constituency seats hugely benefit United Russia.
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@CowperKettle It was an interesting story, that. Harold Godwinesson marched his troops of the feard (the militia who were guarding the southern coast against the predicted attack by William the Bastard's troops) to Stamford Bridge in Yorkshire (some 200+ miles or 320+ km away).
Harold's brother, Tostig, was fighting alongside Harald Hardrada because he had fallen out with the rest of Godwine Wulfnothsson's heirs.
Harald was reputed to be some seven feet tall, and according to the tale they parleyed across the river before the battle. Harold asked what Harald wanted, and Harald replied that he wanted England, as it was rightfully his. Harold replied that he could have six feet of English earth, or as much more of it as he needed for a grave, as he was taller than other men.
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@Cerberus This time, a blockchain-based electronic voting system was used for the first time ever in Russia. And millions of people voted using it. I cannot begin to understand how it actually works though. Too complex.
I don't believe electronic voting, since you cannot trust that the Government is running the code that they say they are running on the servers.
With paper ballot voting, you can at least be sure that a voting station in a strongly independent-minded city, like Yekaterinburg, and stuffed with a couple of truly independent voting observers, will turn out the real figures.
And you then can compare these high-quality voting stations against the results obtained in small town stations. And then you can clearly see that United Russia is surging ahead when there's no independent observers.
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