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ansible

(1,718 posts) Sat Feb 24, 2018, 11:03 PM Feb 2018

Viral videos promoting the presidential election are popping up online in Russia and nobody is sure

Ever wondered what Russian election propaganda is like? This is modern, 2018 Russia.

A video encouraging people to vote in the presidential election started spreading on YouTube and other social media on February 16. The three-minute clip’s star is played by Sergey Burunov, whom Russians know from the sketch-comedy show Bolshaya Raznitsa, the TV series A Policeman From Rublyovka, and the film Posledny Bogatyr. In the video, his character initially plans to skip the March 18 presidential election, but he changes his mind after having a nightmare that shows him the horrible consequences of not going to the polling station: he’s drafted into the army, despite being 52 (and one of the soldiers who delivers the summons is black, for some reason); his son, wearing a red Communist Pioneer neckerchief, asks him for 4 million rubles (almost $18,000) to donate to his school for security guards; and in the kitchen we find an “adopted gay,” because apparently the law now requires families to take in gay men who are dumped by their partners.

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Viral videos promoting the presidential election are popping up online in Russia and nobody is sure (Original Post) ansible Feb 2018 OP

They are scared of Homosexuals Motownman78 Feb 2018 #1

That's Putin's response to opposition leader Navalny urging an election boycott. highplainsdem Feb 2018 #2

Motownman78

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1. They are scared of Homosexuals

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Sat Feb 24, 2018, 11:30 PM

Feb 2018

But then idolize pictures of a shirtless guy on horseback who looks like he was shooting a cover for a Gay Porno. God, what a horrible video.

highplainsdem

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2. That's Putin's response to opposition leader Navalny urging an election boycott.

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Sat Feb 24, 2018, 11:36 PM

Feb 2018

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