Vladimir Putin Wins His Forever Election. Now What?
Inside Putin's Fifth Term: Russian Election 2024
Dive into Russia's controversial election, filled with token opposition, protests, and allegations of voter coercion. Is democracy truly at play?
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“We will no longer tolerate criticism of our democracy.” A brilliant way to tell on yourself.
Yeah just like China thinksthey fooling everyone😂😂😂
You know, I envy Russia. Their democracy is total and irrefutable. Whats not to like ?
@DouglasZanini Except that it isn't a democracy.
@@simonkevnorris Yeah, its democracy with Russian characteristics
Like it’s any different in the west 🙄
Anyone who would have scored better than 10% was either dead, in prison , or died in prison.
No of the opposition has any actual following. Even when the dead ones were alive.
Lol I'm sure plenty of people did get more than 10%, the results literally mean nothing. As bad as Putin is, I'm more terrified of his eventual succession plan. I doubt he has any Gorbachevs in Moscow
well.... thats just inaccurate, nalvany was literally a fringe skinhead posing a liberal, he wouldn't really have gotten more than 10%
So why was he killed right before elections if he was so insignificant?
@@YuritarkovYou really think you’ve just taken part in a free election?
From the makers of "Special Military Operation", comes "Russian Election".
It's the other way around
@@malkav_ils Not chronologically, which is what OP meant, pedant.
I want.. nay, I need to hear this with a movie trailer voice
@@MrWhangdoodles i mean.... its on the both sides, before and after
Imagine if Putin canceled the elections like Zelensky 😂😂
This reminds me of “the police investigated themselves and found no wrongdoing”.
There were three choices 1) Vote for Putin 2) Vote for Putin twice 3) Fall out of a high window
😂rip for the
In Putin's Russia, you don't vote for Putin. Putin votes for you (and he's using your vote to vote for Putin.)
Forgot that one guy who wrote in "Polonium 210 in my tea"...
I bet he's gone in 6 years well come back and say I'm right 6 years from now 2030 he won't be there
Putin is popular is Russia cope.
“Election” that’s cute.
the thing is, even an """election""" can be very useful. Not only are elections a common day for protests and flare-ups, but imagine what people's reactions would be if they just cancelled them entirely. Also: the establishment gets the real numbers. This can be useful for many reasons, not least of which because the vote is a way in which many people opposed to the regime will show their opinions, so you can, for example, use the regional results as a way to guide where you put your security forces. Great video on this by William Spaniel, he's a great source for things relating to the theory of war and strategy
let me guess, are you from the place where that pedo got 81 million votes?
At least they had one. Unlike in Ukraine, where Zelensky canceled the scheduled one.
Long live Putin, my comrade!
All elections are garbage, though not as bad as Russia obviously, but still they are all garbage and stacked in favour of certain candidate..
Stalin had a stroke and the people he surrounded himself with chose to ignore him until he was dead. This is the best that Putin can hope for.
Yet while he was in power, no man did anything but jump and say yes sir. No great vote of confidence in the Russian people huh.
Ахахахаха🤧 сказав это в окружении 100 жителей Ирака.Как думаешь они бы подняли таблички за или против?.....Они бы ещё хором в этот момент долго заикались иным свучание-вероятней всего этим буш,буш буш, буш буш.
@@pooq6611what?
Well realistically, he told no one to enter his office no matter what happens. So they were just following orders, like good lap dogs
it wasn't a stroke. Beria poisoned him and then got killed by the rest of the russian leaders a bit after that.
Tell your music to stop yelling at me!😂
Fr why is it so loud lmao
Check your device, it's just fine on my phone
Need to find a quiet place to record these videos. Not sharing a studio with practising musicians - it's very distracting, especially with Simon gabbling away!
Loud yes but makes me think of Siberia in January. Scary!
@@Oly876 12:20 nah bro youre lying
Slutsky sounds like a name from an Austin Powers movie
Ilova Slutski 😂
Oh behave!
Well, wouldn’t it be ironic, if he’d be famous for doing some sexual offenses…
It fits considering he was accused of sexual assault not long ago
I came to the comments after he mentioned Slutsky. I KNEW you guys wouldn't let me down.
The sound mixing needed work on this one - The background music was even louder than the narrative in some places.
Thank Fuck
Totally agree.
Well... to be fair, Russia had never had a democratic goverment in its whole existence
They are the best at special democratic operations
1991-1992 A few months, then Yeltsin
Democracy is poison for the East
What country has?
@@kennyg1358most exept countrys like NK and china
Russian here! Thank you for speaking about this. There are lots of us who realize the entire horror of Putin's regime but get voices silenced, either forcefully or with use of propaganda. Despite Putin's attempts to separate Russia from the collective "west", as long as there's acknowledgement of the true state of affairs, which is thousands of russians being terrorized against their will, i believe there is a chance for us to form actual democracy where president's elected, not self assigned. So thank you for spreading awareness!
If you like the west so much, just seek citizenship there. No one is holding you against your will to do this. I am currently seeking Russian citizenship and would gladly be under Putin's presidency
Perhaps a trade is in order
@@DoIoannToKnow Why do i have to leave my country in the first place? Putin does not represent the entirety of the nation, he's not the country itself. Why do i have to run from the place i was born in when he's the one who needs to be changed? His ruling is illegal, his election is falsified. He didn't gain the power through fair legal processes. And should i remind you that he's a war criminal wanted in many other countries? I don't care what picture of him you have in your mind but prepare to be disappointed once you learn how expats are treated here.
@@DoIoannToKnowNo way is bro not a Russian propaganda troll…
@@DoIoannToKnowThere is nothing wrong about seeking improvment in your homeland.
There were only 4 candidates running in these election 1. Putin 2. Vladimir Putin 3. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin 4. President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
5. His majesty Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin the Great, first of his dynasty
That is still more candidates in a North Korean election.
5. Vladdy Daddy 💀
Around 11:30 i thought my ears were going crazy with the noises
I saw all the comments about the music being insanely loud, and I couldn't wait for it because that sounds really funny, but I could hear Simon perfectly the whole time.
Maybe the Russian bots can't go against his substance XD
Same here - I was focusing on the speaking, not the music, and I got through fine.
The background went ballistic around 11:10 and just didn’t let up!!!!
He might as well just crown himself king.
He should. Or bring back the Czar❤
I’m shocked he hasn’t done yet.
That's what I'm thinking too. He is a King now. Call it , what it is
Becoming Emperor would actually restore democracy. He doesn't care who gets voted into other positions as long as he has no opposition. This isn't a bad call.
Napoleon
The music was distracting, good information though
The music volume is way too loud, and sometimes interferes with the narration
Careful with the sound effects. I could almost hear Simon at times.
I don't know who your sound editor is and why they think the loud and distracting music is a good idea, but they are wrong.
Might want to increase the music volume, i can still kinda hear what is being said. Ignoring that, great video!
Music is way too loud
Wtf is with the “music” at 11:00? Louder than Simon.
Constant problem on this channel.
@@Hookokokkokoko i have my bass on my speakers turned up all the way and i never have an issue hearing him. With that said its super loud in this video for sure.
Aye they need to dial it down just a tiny bit
😂
No problem hearing him maybe it's your speakers bro.
Simon is the music a lil loud or am I trippin
Music isn't really necessary, is it? Certainly in this kinda video.
It's sounds fine to me but looking at other comments I'm not sure everyone is getting the same audio.
Simon before warographics: i don't wanna be a journalist. Simon after warographics: I'm a journalist now
Love the channel. The music was a bit too loud on this vid. Again, love the channel.
Music got a little loud there
Was this video edited by Christopher Nolan or something? I can 100% guarantee there is a lot of loud music and sound effects, but dialog, maybe there was maybe not. Who knows?
LOL. "Tenet 2", hahahah
Not a fan of the background music couldn't hear you properly
+1
It’s like they don’t even watch it post edit.
They either fixed it or this problem is you guys. I'm watching it right now and it's fine.
@@godwarrior3403 Yeah, it's fine for me.
Some of the BG music in this was so out of place I started looking for browser tabs with random music playing, lol
Love the content across all of the various channels. However, ditching the background music would make it even better.
Great content as always but by 12 minutes in the background music really starts detracting from what you are saying. I know other regular viewers of your awesome channels have raised this point. I know it's difficult when posting lots of videos but it will make a big difference. Considering most of your content, does it really need background music apart from a bit of keyboards?
Fantastic video but man the plauge inc music was hard to ignore
Hey Simon, can you turn down the background music on future videos? it gets really loud at some points and it's hard to hear what you are saying!
Our democracy is at least twice as good in America. We get to choose between TWO people we don’t want!
I don't get it. The Americans have two people they don't want too?
he's saying that in America we can choose between two people we don't want, while in Russia it's one. So, American democracy is twice as good compared to Russia@@Mortarion-xt9wp
😅 I get it now. Sadly the fatal flaw of democracy is horrible politicians.
So true.
We are not a democracy, we are a constitutional republic with democratic institutions, there is in fact a difference. Amd the founding fathers stated clearly there wasn't supposed to be a 2 party system. They hoped for a multi choice system, that's why at the beginning they have the Whig Party, Democratic Republicans, Liberal Party, and the Federalists
I have a request. There is a small sound of a clicking in the background of parts of videos. This sound cuts through the speakers for me and will make my loose attention.
Maybe use super light classical music or whatever fits the thing being said. Much love!!!!!!!
President Putin just basically crowned himself Tsar Vladimir III
Just ?
People of Russian Federation crowned him. By giving our leader our votes 💪
You need to turn down the music, it’s irritating
It’s a bit loud here yeah
Or slowly turn it up by a small percentage per video and see how many videos you can get away with before people start turning against you
@@shido5180that would be cool I think
Love your content 😊😊😊
I think Simon's sound editor is compromised by Russia, they are trying to drown out the western voice! 😂😂
Thank you for the video.
Great video but you won't forget the sound mixing obviously wants me to go deaf.
First the horns now the clicking. What the hell is up with the sound mix on this video.
Video's up for ten minutes and comments are trying to analyze shit. Way to make it obvious you don't actually watch the video just to get your spicy takes in.
Who would watch this boring frickin' video?
I did.
@@handofstranger Plenty of people given this dudes success. You got better content?
@@handofstrangerwhy tf are you even here then?
Then get tf out you bot!
"He is the only person who has made others respect Russia as a country recently." What a joke.
I mean, it’s true tho. Russia doesn’t want to deal with the Global American Empire f’ing up the world.
It's not wrong, though. It may be respect through fear, but before this no one took Russia seriously after the USSR collapsed.
it's the same idiots that say trump made people respect the US and believe it to be true. Dumbfux...
@@ca_kayPeople didn't take anything seriously after the USSR collapsed. The average military spending in NATO dropped by like 50% after the USSR collapsed. The UK dropped from 4% of GDP to 2%, as did France and Germany. Then it fell even more during the Great Recession, with even Finland, the most proactive nation, not reaching 2%. Now the generally accepted view is that by 2030, Poland will be the strongest military power in Europe, possibly even above Russia, marking the first time a non-founding NATO member is ranked as the strongest military in Europe, and that's potentially even if Russia is included.
@calan_k Maybe Russia was seen as a bit of a backwater and borderline failed state in the 90s, but I don't recall Russia being looked at any less favorably during the 2000s than other countries outside the anglosphere, it was just another European country to most people. I mean, it's not like anyone thought Russia was powerless. If anything, this war has made people reappraise the assumption that Russia had the second or third strongest army on Earth, considering how they are failing to conquer a much smaller country. I do think the West should have made more of an effort to bring Russia into the fold, as it does seem like there was a time when they were showing interest in joining NATO and their request was ignored.
The whale noises in the background was an interesting choice
i liked the video, but i felt the music was a bit too noisy at times
The background music is getting a little too loud
PLEASE turn down those annoying background sounds and music that are sometimes louder than Simon. Good video though! But please ...it's really loud and annoying
This was such a foregone conclusion it didn't even make news in my sphere until this video... Wish I could say I was surprised.
03:17 - Russia 🇷🇺 democracy? LOL 😂😂😂
After ww11 russia started to call itself a democracy because part of the treaties said they need to hold free and fair elections. Their solution was to rig the elections and just say it's democracy
Murica? 🇺🇲 democracy? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@PrimericanIdol Bernie Sanders a US sentator for Vermont State actually called out the US for being a full blown oligarchy 1 year ago Also, I'm not American btw 😅 🇬🇧
@@eaphantom9214 Prove that I'm a bot. Go ahead.
You say that as if democracy is a good thing
Music too loud
Jesus that music. If you insist on it, TURN IT DOWN. But if you want my opinion, get rid of it entirely. I want to hear the narration, not spookynoise14.mp3
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Why is everyone saying this about the music? I agree it's kinda loud to blend in well with the background, however it's not nearly loud enough to interfere with Simon's narration.
@@roncerjani9063yeah I can hear almost everything he's saying
@@roncerjani9063 there are sections where the music muddies the narration. If multiple people make comments about this, then maybe they need to go back and look at their audio.
This was almost as close as Belarus' election!
Please keep background music as background. As someone with sensory issues and difficulty hearing words when music is loud. It is very distracting and drowns out what Simon is saying which is important and valuable to know
I didn't even notice the music till I saw your comment about it.
@@Saint_Oscar as I said sensory issues. I hear everything and can’t focus in on one thing - I was diagnosed with obscure auditory dysfunction, this is heightened when my intractable migraine is flaring. I have heard pipes leaking in walls or my neighbours tv as if I was in the same room
@@flushedphoenix81 Fair enough. Sounds like a good solution would be to use Subtitles to help keep your mind quiet. Just a suggestion.
@@Saint_Oscar unfortunately I don’t watch the videos as moving images make my migraine worse so subtitles aren’t really a feasible solution. I can only listen to them
@@Saint_Oscar There are TONS of people complaining about it up and down the comment stack. It's not just people with sensory issues. I have really good head phones, and I had to switch to the built in speakers in my laptop because they are all mid with not top and bottom. Whoever mixed this simply botched it.
Simon, my late wife was from a Latvian family, and an old Latvian couple we knew naturally had extreme disdain for Russia. I had many discussions with the old Latvian man. In World War Two he had fought in the Latvian Legion of the German Army. During our discussions in the 1980's and 1990's, he made it clear to me that he considered Vladimir Putin to be the most dangerous man on the planet. He lived to see Putin take control, but died himself in 2006. If he was still alive, I'm sure he would say "See! I told you so!". The hope that people like him had after the fall of the Soviet Union has now also died. I remarried in 2017, and my wife is a Filipina grandmother. We live in Mindanao Philippines. So, I've now got as much disdain for the CCP as my old friend had for Putin and the Soviets. What looked like a rosier future back in the 1990's is now clearly dead.
Simon are you going to talk about Crocus? Seriously crazy stuff going on over there
Wtf is happening with the voice/music balance.. The music is annoying
Cool content 😮
Is it just me or dose this episode background Musi really loud. It’s distracting 😅😢
The audio in this video is mixed differently than other videos of yours it feels like. The background noise is a lot louder in certain sections and it becomes really hard to hear your voice 😭
The background music is quite distracting. I don't see the need to have music in a news video at all, frankly.
People like Boris Nemtsov and Alexei Navalny should never be forgotten. They gave up their lives so that others may not have to give up theirs.
Love all of Simon’s videos, but could the background sound/music be lowered slightly, it was difficult to understand what he was saying at points. 12:00
Simon needs to put window glass in those empty frames.
I am once again begging for Simon’s editors to use an audio deesser. This is borderline unlistenable.
The background music in this video is ear piercing and drowns out Simon's voice a good amount
“Putin won fair and square” -Putin
Just amazing, Simon, the amount of information you go through.
Actually do love the music this time
Around 11 min mark music ducking stopped working
Fire the guy in charge of background music.
Cue the balcony to fall off of.
3:58 That's incorrect. Navalny's team called to come to the election sites at 12:00 to participate in the protest, where protesters could do "whatever they want"-vote, spoil the ballot, not cast the ballot or just stay near the entry. Meanwhile the recommended strategy was to vote for anyone but Putin or to spoil the ballot-they even made an app to chose a random candidate for ones who were indecisive.
Why the loud noises? Can hardly hear the words
Love these. Unbiased and informative. Exactly what I like in my geopolitical breakdowns😎
Lol.
all media is biased, you just like it based on your biases. Not a personal attack it's just not possible to have unbiased media
@@Orchidbeetleit is most definitely possible to at least be as unbiased as possible. You’re telling me the US media hasn’t been backsliding over the last 10 years?
@@JackoWillMakeLives-loveu I didn't say anything other than unbiased media doesn't exist, and I stand by that statement alone. Whatever narrative you cook up in your head about me is all yours
100% agree, no subjective pov can be objective @@Orchidbeetle
The best of this entire circus was seeing videos of armed military checking out people in voting booths and making sure they were voting for the supreme master strategist 3 days to Kyiv btw
Stay away from fifth floor windows, Simon.
If you ask a Russian, which I did, and I asked him to also ask his entire family and friends - 9/10 of them actually like Putin.
Get rid of the annoying noises in the background!🤦🏻♂️
Simon, I couldn’t help but notice a couple of pronunciation mistakes. You seem to add an extra “i” between double zh in “Zaporizhzhia oblast”, but yeah, there’s none, zhzh is pronounced just as prolonged “zh”. Also you seem to skip the second “d” in “Boris Nadezhdin”. Regardless, great work!
if simon needs a pedantic nit-picker he would probably ask for one.
Gesundheit
@@GaryGraham-sx4pm it's not about nitpicking, it's about the classic disrespect to Slavic names that bothers people
@@VerminaeSupremacy fair enough
I didn't find the music loud whatsoever. I was using headphones, if relevant.
The background music is soo damn loud im tryna listen💀
Nobody elected the UK PM lol
yeah its been a while since we elected one..
They elected the party.
Putin is a year older than my grandpa
Biden is a decade older than your gramps
Love how you ignore the enemy at home
my election place (regular school) got so scared of 17/03 at 12:00 so they even closed it with saying "no electricity". I was voting IN the bus right on the voting box with 3 officers lurking behind my shoulders what and where im placing my votes. was able to vote against everyone only because of my old teachers from this school.
I'm going to make comment out of this in a hopes that Basement Team at least notices the problem: Nowadays there has been same problem in many Simon's channels/podcast that music is ANNOYINGLY LOUD - or music sounds a bit like alarms (phone, general, etc.) on the background - and especially Simon hisssssshing a lot, like all almost the bass has been replaced with his S sounds. It is so bad that I had to stop watching many of his videos or listening the podcasts. I thought it was because of my sensitive ADHD but now I'm kinda glad that others noticed that too. The reason _might be_ that his editors might have TOO GOOD stuff to use when editing sound, while other people don't have money to have the best headphones etc. So maybe editors don't hear the problems. Most of my headsets are for moving while doing something, so the quality of sound, usually bass, suffers.
I listened to this video on my phone and felt the audio was at times overwhelming and muddied the narration. I've seen a lot of Simon's videos and on other channels of his, but this video was the worst one so far in that regard.
@@ArmyGreensTanBoots True that there are some differences. He has a little bit different setup also, depending in what channel he records on - so that might also affect sound. I'm often listening both, video format ones and the pure podcast ones. Like I said... It has been nowadays increasing issue, not that everything is like that. So I guess it was bound to happen that some video is worse at it. And I still fully admit that part of it my ADHD and my own setups, so I didn't mention it earlier until it because more of a clear thing to others too. (my own setups never use smart phones, so I know I'm a bit different overall.) I still hope that the sound editing would be tested on some more basic equipment (headset etc.) and maybe that helps the issue.
We Americans are also given the illusion of choice, difference is that we get a whole two parties to “choose” from!
It's something... We either use it or lose it.
The two parties being different is even debatable.
@@calebplumleeoutdoors At this point, Trump and the MAGA wing of the party are doing their damndest to change that. Whether that's for the better or not is entirely up to perspective.
@@daevious_If the Republican Party didn't allow for any fairness, they would have done to Trump what the Dems did to Sanders. During his first election, the Rep politicians hated Trump. The two party system sucks, but at least it's not Russia.
Do we really believe elections in the UK are "free" & "fair"? 13 years of tory rule has me doubting it
Pegan holiday? Lol you mean Spring? Why’d you have to make it sound like that? 😂
Oh how I love democracy
Yeah, isn't the sham of a democratic election great. Us elections are not perfect, but oh boy is the electoral college better that what the rest of the world has.
The New Joseph Stalin™
Based
@@munnakhan8961get laid
The operative phrase being “for life.”
As someone who's entire Ancestry is from Europe, it's heartbreaking to see so many innocent people getting killed! My thoughts and prayers are with You Ukraine!! 🤍💙 Stay strong!
Russia is stable after centuries of instability. Only after putin, it has brought change though not completely. Why would russ citizens not choose putin to continue enjoy the stability. Choosing another leader at this stage is dangerous. Let putin set russia into good position and the peaceful transfer of power will be good
Russia’s electoral system is indeed more transparent than any Western democracy, but not for the reason the Kremlin is implying (ie that it’s fairer), but because everyone knew who the winner was before the process started…
16:26 What is Eminem doing in Russia?!? 😂🤣😂
The background music gets WAY too loud, especially during the looking at who the candidates are/were
I'm not Russian, but I'm curious to know if Russia's antagonism could partially be explained by perceived crises, collapses and failures every time it sought rapprochement with the West or tried to implement Western models for itself. If Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union and if democratizing the country along Western models with Western approval would lead to incompetent leaders like Yeltsin and an abysmal economy with Wild West-like social disorder, then in the eyes of Russians it might seem that Western-style democracies don't pay off. It's questionable whether a country should adopt republican models or secular democracies if it lacks the institutions for these systems. Perhaps Russia's future will be ruled by someone who is neither Gorbachev nor Stalin, but rather by someone in between, like Khrutschov or Brezhnev.
Finally, a smart question.
I think its mostly expressed by generations antagonism. Putin was elected first time and kept being reelected by same aging group of people, who either miss or hate USSR. While youth is mostly against regime, but choice was made before people of this generation could do anything - and now they live without tools to really change things. (Like, even pro-war/far right youth is still against Putin and his regime mostly)
Apply whatever you want, you're not gonna get far with a land of drunks.
@@publiusventidiusbassus1232 Maybe, but I'm not sure whether the former Ottoman Empire, Arab countries, Iran, the entirety of Latin America and the Caribbean, China etc. have many positive experiences with Westernization, modernization and democratization, because all of them, including Russia, most certainly gave it a try. Perhaps all of them consider Western ways of doing things to be on par with social disorder and collapse as well as economic concessions. Only the West can do things the Western way, because the West has institutionalized everything and is the only part of the world that has learned to do so effectively with the passing of the centuries. This is what truly sets the West apart from the rest of the world. Analytical institutions in the West do what societies themselves do in the East. This is why Western societies are dysfunctional and replete with degeneracy while Eastern governments are dysfunctional and replete with corruption.
Wait a second…are your glasses even real? There is no distortion where the lenses should be. There are also times where it doesn’t even look like there are lenses, almost like they are just frames. This is throwing me off.
Yoooo I noticed this now you bring it up looks like just frames
On brain blaze he said he was getting laser eye surgery, Simon without glasses would look se weird
@@squirrelrc2392kinda pointless to get an eye surgery if you're not thinking about ditching your glasses ngl
@@roncerjani9063 Having your glasses fog up every time you come in from the cold, or getting sun glares at specific angles is annoying as hell. Putting on fake glases to retain an established media image, not so much.