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EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has lashed out at the results of Russia’s parliamentary election, dismissing it as a “veneer of democracy.” The senior EU official, a noted Russia hawk who was appointed, not elected, to her post in 2024, made no mention of the 1,600 drones Ukraine launched into Russia during the vote.

Her claims of democratic dysfunction did not include Ukraine’s own indefinitely suspended elections, but stuck to a vote whereby some 60 million people cast ballots across 11 time zones.

In a post on X on Monday, Kallas targeted the three-day elections in which the ruling United Russia party retained a commanding parliamentary majority with nearly 58% of the party-list vote, well ahead of its rivals, according to preliminary results. Turnout exceeded 59% from 51.7% in 2021, according to Central Election Commission chief Ella PamfilovaKallas claimed that “the so-called Duma elections marked another major setback for Russian democracy,” adding that “their outcome was never in doubt.” She further accused Moscow of silencing its critics, stressing that “the veneer of democracy is all that remains in Russia.”

Kallas also claimed to have “proposed measures against those facilitating these sham elections in occupied Ukrainian territories.” The EU said separately that it would never recognize voting held in Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye, and Kherson regions – all of which voted to join Russia in public referendums in 2014 and 2022.

 

Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, and the UK issued a joint statement likewise describing the voting in those territories as a “sham.”

However, neither Kallas nor other Kiev’s backers made mention of a huge Ukrainian drone raid on Moscow amid the election. The attack – which Russian officials said involved more than 1,600 drones and was aimed at derailing the vote – killed two civilians in the capital suburbs and damaged an oil refinery, residential buildings, and civilian infrastructure. Ukrainian strikes in frontline regions also damaged dozens of buildings housing election commissions, according to local officials.

Kallas was ridiculed by social media users over the fact that she herself was not elected by EU voters to the position, having taken office as the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy in December 2024 after serving as Estonian prime minister and a member of the European Parliament.

Kallas and Kiev’s Western backers have consistently refrained from calling on Ukraine to hold its own presidential election, after Vladimir Zelensky’s term expired more than two years ago and he refused to call a new vote, citing martial law. Russia has since declared him “illegitimate,” arguing that Zelensky’s dubious status complicates any eventual peace settlement.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova responded to the election criticism by mocking Kallas’s earlier call for EU states not to recognize the Russian results, saying that “EU countries had stopped recognizing Kallas herself a long time ago.”

https://www.rt.com/news/646051-unelected-eu-official-fumes-russia-election/

 

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disappointment.....

 

How Russians again disappointed the West

Before Russia voted, Western pundits called the election a key test. After predictions failed, they dismissed the result as illegitimate.

By Vladimir Kornilov, Russian political scientist

 

The legislative elections in Russia have become a major topic in global media. The Times even published an editorial with the impressive headline ‘Potemkin election’. 

Apparently, the author is unaware of the fact that his apparent witticism is out of place. He must also be ignorant of the origins of the term ‘Potemkin village’. Had he done some research, he would have known that Field Marshal Potemkin did not show Catherine the Great and many foreign ‘observers’ (as the people who accompanied her would be called today) fake villages. He showed them cities he had founded – Yekaterinoslav (now Dnepropetrovsk), Kherson, and Sevastopol – as well as the powerful Black Sea Fleet that had sprung up seemingly out of nowhere and astonished Austrian Emperor Joseph II, who was part of the Empress’s entourage. If the authors of The Times believe these ‘Potemkin villages’ never existed, they should have a look at the modern map of Novorossiya and Crimea.

In terms of significance, the current State Duma elections may be compared to Catherine the Great’s journey to southern Russia. That trip demonstrated to the entire world that the map of Europe had fundamentally changed and that the once-wild steppes had become an integral part of the Russian Empire. It was precisely for this reason that back then, the purveyors of fake news rushed to concoct tales about ‘Potemkin villages’ – just as today, they try to slander the elections held in Russia’s historicterritories, in the very cities founded by Potemkin nearly 250 years ago.

I’d like to note how dramatically the perception of the elections has shifted in Western media over a short period of time. Just a week and a half ago, The Sunday Times published an extensive ‘analytical’ piece on why the elections were important. The author expressed hope that they would reveal “discontent” with the government and suggested that the results would demonstrate that “Russians’ patience is wearing thin”and that, in frontline regions, “the Kremlin will … begin to lose the provinces.”  There was no shortage of such articles leading up to the vote.

However, yesterday, in the wake of the elections, The Spectator published a frustrated piece arguing why the results of these “rigged” elections should be ignored. The author is clearly disappointed with voter turnout and the results in those so-called “Potemkin villages” – specifically the regions of Crimea, Donbass, and Novorossiya, which have again become part of Russia. “Most Russians want the war over, but they seem to be blaming the new inconveniences – from internet blockages to lines for gas – on Kiev, not the Kremlin,” the article states. 

Some might say, ‘So what if two different authors have two different opinions? That only demonstrates the pluralism of the free European press.’ But here’s the catch: both articles were written by the same person – Mark Galeotti, Britain’s top ‘expert on Russia.’ This stark contrast in the evaluation of the same event stems from the genuine disappointment among Western elites who have again misjudged the outcome of Russia’s elections.

They failed to understand Russians 250 years ago and fail to understand them today. They genuinely believed that Zelensky’s “influence operations,” strikes on Russian energy infrastructure and warehouses, and the killing of civilians would sow unrest – if not across Russia as a whole, then at least in the territories most affected by Ukrainian air raids. They failed to grasp that this would actually cause the opposite reaction. The elections demonstrated that the residents of these territories do not see themselves as separate from the rest of the country.

This is why European politicians are gritting their teeth; it’s why Kaja Kallas issued a notice before the voting, declaring that elections in “occupied” territories would not be recognized; and it’s also why they resurrected the tale of ‘Potemkin villages’, knowing as little about Russians today as they did hundreds of years ago. 

https://www.rt.com/russia/646097-how-russians-again-disappointed-west/

 

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