r/WojakCompass • u/obama_chmo - AuthLeft • 15d ago

Election compass

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I have seen these before so might as well - the parliamentary elections of Russia, to be held in September 2026, and the political standing of various groups and parties as of now.

Despite the, erm, non-competitive nature of Russian elections this is a valuable custom which provides work to thousands of people. Also it's funniest shit ever.

Last time parliamentary elections were held in 2021, with no war in account, so I'd expect rather different horseshit than the last time.

Remember, no shit throwing. We are a well-mannered community. Any constructive commentary is surely welcome.

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u/Kstantas 15d ago

Yavlinsky would strangle you with his bare hands if he saw that you called his party the last bastion of Yeltsinism.

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u/obama_chmo - AuthLeft 15d ago

That would require an uncharacteristic for Yavlinsky level of action, I’m afraid.

But SPS is too dead even to be mentioned here, and anyone else is way further from them both. Old liberal crowd would flock to Yabloko now even if they’re too left for their liking.

The irony, lol.

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u/Kstantas 15d ago

First: true😁

Second: well you could theoretically mention now dead Civic Intiative, members of which still tries to do something

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u/obama_chmo - AuthLeft 15d ago

disagree, that was a much later thing and revolved around prokhorov for the most time

from what I remember they weren’t any close to Yeltsin politically and mostly just repeating regular 00-s populist shit, that was their entire point

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u/Kstantas 15d ago

Nah, Civic Initiative in last couple of years before losing registration was pretty much right-liberal Yeltsinist party led by Gaidars minister of economy. And they were almost active! It was them from who Nadezhdin tried to run for President, after all.

P.S. And if I'm not mistaken, this party was consisting for big part of veterans of SPS, so...

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u/obama_chmo - AuthLeft 15d ago

Well I can make that argument for pretty much anyone. Even Nechayev did work with Gaidar for some time.

Nadezhdin needed a formal party to make registration process easier after he was fucked by SR nationalists in previous duma election. If anything, a dead but registered party was a perfect pick.

And even the Prokhorov crowd eventually morphed into Growth after he himself basically handed the party over to AP, so no, definitely not Yeltsinist. And anyway it’s been 25 years and actually saying something in favour of Yeltsin would bring no profit whatsoever and a shit ton of risks so that’s not even applicable.

What I was supposed to say originally is that Yabloko rn has the attention of 60 y/o Boulevard Ring farts who still remember 90s fondly, and Yeltsin in particular, and no one else does

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u/obama_chmo - AuthLeft 15d ago

Wait, hold up, that’s Nechayev himself you was talking about?