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Putin's answer to a little girl's question

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I saw this video recently from Quartz, on Facebook. For those who don't speak Russian, I transcribed the English subtitles from the Quartz video to go with the same video on Youtube.



Hello Mr President. My name is Alina. I'm a first year school pupil and I wanted to ask you a question. Is it possible for a woman to be the president of Russia? Because my dad says only Putin can handle America.
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Friend, thanks. Well, we have to think not about how to handle America, but about domestic problems. Roads, health care, education, development of economy, our recovery and growth. If we can manage that, we don't need to handle anybody. Because in that case, we'll feel like we'll have strong prospects and we're proud to live in our country. And you asked whether a woman can be the head of state in Russia. Actually, a woman might handle these issues better than anybody.
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What do you think? Putin doesn't exactly have a great track record with feminist group ***** Riot. Maybe his policy or Russia's policy is not pro woman, but this sounds a lot like a feminist answer to me.

His answer seemed to briefly address the two main points of Alina's question, can a woman be President, and what should she do in order to fill his shoes after he leaves office in 2018. That is about as pro woman an answer as can be had without an actual endorsement. Do you think that Putin has a woman in mind for the next President of Russia?
 
Celebrity said:
What do you think? Putin doesn't exactly have a great track record with feminist group ***** Riot. Maybe his policy or Russia's policy is not pro woman, but this sounds a lot like a feminist answer to me.

His answer seemed to briefly address the two main points of Alina's question, can a woman be President, and what should she do in order to fill his shoes after he leaves office in 2018. That is about as pro woman an answer as can be had without an actual endorsement. Do you think that Putin has a woman in mind for the next President of Russia?
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I think it was a diplomatic and kind answer to an ambitious young girl's question.
 
Celebrity said:
I saw this video recently from Quartz, on Facebook. For those who don't speak Russian, I transcribed the English subtitles from the Quartz video to go with the same video on Youtube.







What do you think? Putin doesn't exactly have a great track record with feminist group ***** Riot. Maybe his policy or Russia's policy is not pro woman, but this sounds a lot like a feminist answer to me.

His answer seemed to briefly address the two main points of Alina's question, can a woman be President, and what should she do in order to fill his shoes after he leaves office in 2018. That is about as pro woman an answer as can be had without an actual endorsement. Do you think that Putin has a woman in mind for the next President of Russia?
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I think the KGB are trained to talk from both sides of their mouth.
 
Putin is playing the political wise-sage role for the domestic Russian audience.

Elections to the Duma (the lower legislative house of the Russian Federation) are on 18 September 2016.

Putin would certainly love to see his United Russia Party increase its 238 (52.89%) seat majority of the 450 seats in the State Duma.

The current Duma structure...

United Russia Party (238 seats) - Putin's political party
Communist Party of the Russian Federation (92 seats) - far left communists who miss the ol' USSR
Just Russia Party (64 seats) - a merger of the far-right nationalist Rodina party with some smaller parties
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (56 seats) - the far-right wingnut party of Vladimir Zhirinovsky

United Russia Party = 238 (always a majority voting bloc)
CPRF/JR/LDPR = 212
 
Simpleχity;1066307448 said:
Putin is playing the political wise-sage role for the domestic Russian audience.

Elections to the Duma (the lower legislative house of the Russian Federation) are on 18 September 2016.

Putin would certainly love to see his United Russia Party increase its 238 (52.89%) seat majority of the 450 seats in the State Duma.

The current Duma structure...

United Russia Party (238 seats) - Putin's political party
Communist Party of the Russian Federation (92 seats) - far left communists who miss the ol' USSR
Just Russia Party (64 seats) - a merger of the far-right nationalist Rodina party with some smaller parties
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (56 seats) - the far-right wingnut party of Vladimir Zhirinovsky

United Russia Party = 238 (always a majority voting bloc)
CPRF/JR/LDPR = 212
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jesus christ, no wonder the URP has a majority. All the rest of them are far right or far left ideologies.
 
It reminds me of the photo of Hitler engaging a little boy in presumably childish conversation. I seriously doubt Hitler told the boy "I'm killing every Jewish man, woman, and child I can stuff into my ovens!".
 
Masterhawk said:
jesus christ, no wonder the URP has a majority. All the rest of them are far right or far left ideologies.
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Putin's United Russia Party captured (pun intended) 54.2 percent of the vote which can result in a possible 343 of the 450 Duma seats available. More importantly, such a majority would allow Putin to make changes to the Russian constitution. With a low voter turnout (40%), the Communist party was in second place with 13.5 percent of the vote, followed by the Liberal Democrats party (LDPR) on 13.3 percent and the Just Russia party on 6.2 percent. This legislative election is seen as a dry run for the presidential election in 18 months.
 
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