A Very Uplifting Story
2- Abbas Galliamov
- 11.08.2026, 9:41
- 2,754
Putin gathered every bruise and bump he could possibly find.
If the Russian authorities had decided to bar Yabloko from the elections, they should have done so at the very first stage—by immediately refusing to register the party’s candidate list. Then everything would have gone much more quietly.
By registering the party list, the Kremlin put Yabloko at the center of the agenda. It was literally a sensation. Everyone rushed to discuss what this decision—to allow opponents of the war to appear on the ballot—might mean. As a result, the withdrawal attracted maximum attention, and a routine matter turned into a scandal. Why?… One might assume that they’re idiots who couldn’t have foreseen all of the above, but that’s not the case. It was easy to foresee, and they aren’t stupid enough to be unable to do so.
So, initially, the decision to allow the party to run was indeed made, and it was agreed upon with Putin. Then something went wrong. It could have been a surge in approval ratings, a surge in public interest in politics, complaints from security forces that they would no longer be able to imprison people for anti-war speeches (“for what? The CEC allowed it!”), or maybe something else…
Whatever the case may be, the system, to use Volodin’s terminology, “went into a tizzy”—it became flustered, started scrambling, the claims turned out to be shoddy, the arguments weak; instead of demonstrating the power the authorities could have exercised by denying the list’s registration outright, they displayed inconsistency and uncertainty along the lines of “I want to, but I’m hesitant, and Mom says no.”
This is a very positive story. The system demonstrated a clear inability to act optimally; it racked up literally every bruise and bump it possibly could.
Abbas Galliamov, “Telegram”
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