09/07/2020
Feature Story News, an independent news bureau which provides radio bulletins for English language radio stations around the globe, says that the “Niet” Campaign in Moscow will be calling a rally for next Wednesday to protest the result of a plebiscite which grants Russian Premier Vladimir Putin “Tsarist” type powers, or the perpetual rule that was once the preserve of corrupt communist leaders when the country was under the yoke of viciously homophobic and paranoid Bolsheviks. In theory, Putin could still be in power at the age of eighty three, masterminding the state's increasingly centralised and authoritarian impetus. Radio Free Europe, the famous pro-democracy radio station beamed from Germany, notes that there are a litany of inconsistency which have led most independent observers to conclude that the results of the plebiscite were determined well in advance and that the electoral sytem was manipulated into giving the state what it desired. A Russian woman living in Israel reported that she'd been able to vote three times -- in Tel Aviv, in Haifa, and again online. At one Moscow polling station, a man was told that he and two of his children had already cast their votes -- despite insisting none of them had. A supervisor then seized the voter record, snapped it shut, and told the man, "Prove it!". LGBTQ people of Russian descent will be unsurprised at the country's questionable electoral results. For many minorities, including Jews, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses and countercultural groups, Russia has probably never functioned as a democracy. As evidence of the homophobic Russian establishment's apparent descent into stark staring madness, the swivel eyed head of the pro-Putin Women's Union of Russia denounced an ice cream brand for being in bright rainbow colours and demanded it be closely monitored.
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