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Russia’s Opposition Leader Nikolai Kharitonov is today swallowing a bitter sweet pill.
While made bitter because he lost the Russian election in a landslide, the pill is sweetened by the wonderful fact that it isn’t poisoned with some radioactive substance.
Put simply, the leader of Russia’s Communist Party is today revelling in the fact that he’s still actually alive.
This comes after he secured absolutely sweet fuck all of the vote in Russia’s Presidential elections this weekend.
Incumbent President Vladimir Putin pulled off a shock election victory, somehow managing to secure 87% of the vote across the nation.
It’s not quite fully known how the wildly popular figure managed to achieve such a high vote, but it’s believed Putin’s control of the media, political process and lives of his opponents may have something to do with it.
With the overwhelming majority of the votes in the free, fair and very democratic elections going to Big Vlad, it means that the likes of Kharitonov and co are free to continue going about their lives.
“This is a good result for Nikolai, believe me,” said Daniil Smirnov, a Russian Political expert from South Betoota Polytechnic’s Humanities department.
“I know he would have like to have got a few more of the votes in this election, but that would come at a cost.”
“Put it this way, just being sent to the prison camp in Siberia would have been a great result if he snagged another couple of percent.”
Both Vladimir Putin and Nikolai Kharitonov were unavailable to comment on the story.
More to come.
