Мобилизация, налоги, репрессии. Что нам приготовила новая Госдума? // Комолов &Абдулов. Числа недели

Good afternoon, dear friends. Prime Numbers on air. In this episode of our program, Rafael Abdullov and I will focus on the results of the parliamentary elections that took place in Russia from September 18 to 20. Many of our compatriots were surprised by the results of these elections, to put it mildly. There is a lot of

excitement online right now about the triumphant march of United Russia, which has achieved perhaps the best results in the entire history of Russian parliamentarism. However, we at the Simple Numbers channel warned you on the eve of the elections that the final result would be of little use, and that it shouldn't be relied upon at all,

since the state, under the current circumstances, had every opportunity to invent absolutely any number in the final protocol, and the public had no way to influence it either during the voting or during the counting. After all, in Russia the institution of independent election observation has been practically destroyed. The widespread introduction of electronic

voting also allows Russian officials to manipulate the results as they see fit. And, of course, unlike 2011, when rejection of the election results brought hundreds of thousands of people onto Russian streets in protest, today a repeat of such a scenario is impossible for well-known reasons. Almost all public events of any political nature are prohibited in Russia

. Rafael, what did you do last weekend and how do you rate United Russia's triumphant victory? Well, first of all, hello everyone. Last weekend I voted at 12:00. I asked, came, asked for a ballot paper, this huge one, and with my own pen I put, as they say, check marks in front of what