Kama kawaida yangu. Nimeisoma yote hiyo habari na baadhi ya nukuu kutoka kwenye habari hiyo na mchango wangu juu ya nukuu hizo:
1. Still, the latest election, which concludes on Sunday, provides an occasion to assess the state of Putin’s rule and how it has weathered two years of war.
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Uchaguzi unaendeshwa hadi kwenye majimbo yaliyojiunga na Russia hivi karibuni...bado unasema uongozi wa Putin umefifia kwa miaka miwili ya vita (kwanza si vita bali ni Operesheni Maalumu ya Kijeshi).
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2. “Of course, that’s a very convenient position for Putin,” Abbas Gallyamov, a former speechwriter for Putin who is now a Putin critic, told me. “Seeing as that, by this point, he
is the state.”
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Hivi unategemea mkosoaji wa Putin akuwekee chai ya maziwa mezani huku akikueleza habari nzuri za Putin? Kua Mkuu.
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3.According to reporting by Meduza, a Russian news outlet based abroad, internal Kremlin metrics forecast that Nadezhdin would have won as much as ten per cent of the vote. That would have clashed with Putin’s rhetoric of a unified country.
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Ni ngumu kuamini maandishi ya watu ambao hawaishi ndani ya Russia kutueleza kinachoendelea nadi ya Russia Tena wakati huu ambao Russia anaendesha Special Military Operation huko Ukraine.
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4.“Autocracies like Russia’s don’t like the idea of progress,” Ekaterina Schulmann, a Russian political scientist based in Berlin, told me. “They are intently focussed on the past, maintain a cult of history, and use these ideas to try and keep the present forever.” Navalny represented the opposite, which made his existence unbearable to the state.
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Yaani West wanashangilia uovu wa Hitler ambaye walimnanga zaidi ya miaka 75 (rejea tukio la Bunge la Canada), kisha wanasema S. Bandera aliyeshiriki kuua wapolandi na warussia eti ni shujaa na wanaandika upya historia juu ya Nazi kwa kuunga Mkono Makundi ya kinazi kama 'Azov' nakadhalika. Hivi tutaachaje kuamini hawa West ni waungaji Mkono ugaidi Ulimwenguni kuanzia Sahel, Somalia, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan na kwingineko???
West wanaandika historia upya kwa kuua Mila na desturi zao kwa visingizio vya uhuru kuelekea matendo ya kishetani...hii haikubaliki. Na Russia lazima aungwe Mkono kuzuia ubadilishaji wa Historia ya kweli.
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5.The Russian investigative site Proekt, which the Russian state has labelled “undesirable,” recently tallied the number of people who have faced criminal prosecution in politically motivated cases in the course of Putin’s current six-year Presidential term.
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Taarifa zake za kubeba hoja ya andiko hili kazipata kwa vyanzo vyenye msuguano na Russia. Hii inakuwa ngumu kuaminika.
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6.But Miniailo, of the Chronicles project, cautioned against taking such figures too seriously. “It makes little sense to try to understand what people want solely by asking which candidate they will vote for,” he said. “Politics simply doesn’t exist in Russia, so this question has little relevance.”
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Sasa mwandishi anataka itumike njia ipi ilikupatanmatokeo anayoyataka?? Ndugu Miniailo anajiabisha.
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7.Yudin mentioned Navalny’s funeral and the crowds that keep coming, day after day, to lay flowers. “Of course, in a country of a hundred and forty million there are plenty of brave people,” he said. “But that was never the problem.
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Navalny alikuwa na Ndugu, jamaa na marafiki. Sasa mwandishi hataki hawa waje kuomboleza kwenye kabuli lake? Vipi huyu mwandishi?
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8. He needs a certification of this world view,” Stanovaya told me. “Proof he can hold up and say, yet again, ‘The country is behind me.’ ”
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Mwisho wa makala. Na kuonyesha mwandishi anawayawaya...kashindwa kuja na conclusive statement kuhusu yote aliyoeleza. Inasikitisha kwa uandishi huu kutoka kwa the so called journalist wa West ambao wanasifika kwa objectivity!