The former Soviet dissident, Vladimir Bukovsky, who has not lived in Russia since the 1970's, has
obtained a Russian passport with the intention of running for president of Russia in 2008. Vladimir Bukovsky has not been back to Russia in more than 10 years and at one point actually attempted to renounce his Russian citizenship. Now he wants to be the Russian president. Isn't that nice. He looks like he rather feeble which will go down as well with the Russian population as his long-term absence from Russia. Gary Kasparov would probably receive more votes and together the two of them would not break double digits in total percentage.
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Bukovsky acknowleges he has little chance of winning, but his candidacy is seen as symbolic.
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And it is also symbolic of the western press' fascination with candidates that have zero chances of winning the 2008 Russian presidential election. It is as if all of the European press was covering Jessie Jackson in his umpteenth Quixotic run for the US presidency.
Robert Amsterdam had a
funny quote on Bukovsky in an article on
Other Russia which I have pointed out is a farce of an opposition party.
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Vladimir Bukovsky spoke to his potential electors from London and assured them that he was with them in spirit.
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Bukovsky cannot even offer a better message for Russia
when speaking for himself:
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I cannot promise our people happiness. We all have an exhausting, difficult road to recovery ahead of us. Maybe we will not be able to complete it. But if this nation still has the strength to call on people like me, we are prepared to try.
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That is no way to get elected president of any country regardless of the circumstances. If Vladimir Bukovsky cannot see that he needs to offer a more positive message for the electorate than this gloom and doom, he does not deserve to be elected and he does not deserve any more press coverage.
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