Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted by The New York Times as saying “our presidential election is not really democracy, it is costly bureaucracy. Mr. Putin will be re-elected next year with more than 90 percent of the vote.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted by The New York Times as saying “our presidential election is not really democracy, it is costly bureaucracy. Mr. Putin will be re-elected next year with more than 90 percent of the vote.”
In the brilliant 1969 Hungarian movie The Witness that satirises Stalinist Hungary of the 1950s, the protagonist is called as a witness in a show trial against a former communist functionary. In the scene before the trial he was supposed to be handed his bogus testimony so that he can memorise it, but he’s accidentally given the verdict instead.
Somehow this spokesman reminded me of this scene, not sure why…
Sounds like Sergey Naryshkin during that pre-invasion event with Putin, where Putin was trying to get all the high-ranking people publicly committed to the invasion, and instead of endorsing recognition of LNR/DNR independence, Naryshkin endorsed their annexation. Wrong order on the scripts.