Dutch news outlets are coming forward saying the elections are rigged and people were forced (sometimes at gunpoint) to vote in favor of Russia.

Also the number of the population was somehow rigged or something.

What are your thoughts and sources on this? Lot of libs keep throwing it in my face because it’s the state media that reports it.

  • pancake@lemmy.ml
    24·
    2 years ago

    My thought: if they don’t trust the international observers that oversaw the election, they should have sent their own. Science tells us to trust the best available evidence.

    • cult@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 years ago

      Which international observers has Russia cited? All I saw was some German energy CEO who “took holiday” to go see it. He was “impressed by the transparency” but also said, “I assess what I see, in the full knowledge that I am only being allowed to see what I should see.”

      Was there any others?

      • aworldtowin@lemmy.ml
        6·
        2 years ago

        This is an article from western media that came out yesterday, and while the headline is about an Indian observer I’d like to highlight a specific paragraph:

        “In a widely circulated message on Telegram channels, a Russian official said: “Representatives from Great Britain, Germany, Syria, Togo, Spain, Colombia, South Africa, Ghana, Serbia, India, Iceland and Latvia worked at polling stations in Donetsk and Makeevka.””

        According to Russia there seems to have been people from quite a few places, and not just global south countries but Britain, Germany, Spain, and Iceland.

        • ☭ 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗘𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 ☭MA
          2·
          2 years ago

          They had a Biden moment

          Indian prime minister Narendra Modi expressed his displeasure over the war in Ukraine directly with Vladimir Putin at their face-to-face meeting in Uzbekistan, saying it was not the era of war. It was also India’s first mention of Ukraine’s invasion as war. (emphasis added)