The defeat of Putin's man in Siberia will be a matter of much cheering today for many Putin haters. The hatred for Putin and the new Christian Russia is so great in the Western countries, I am willing to bet many will like to once again see a Soviet-communist style Russia rather than the Orthodox Christian one it has become since the fall of the USSR. This is the new madder world we live in now.
From SiberianTimes:
...Siberia's biggest city turns Red as Communists win mayoral election.
Communist candidate Anatoly Lokot won 43.75% of the vote to secure victory as mayor of Novosibirsk, according to preliminary results after all ballots were counted. He defeated acting mayor, Vladimir Znatkov, a member of United Russia, in the election.
No other candidate achieved more than 4% of the vote and 2.01% of ballots were found invalid.
It is the first time a Communist has won election to the top municipal post in Novosibirsk since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and represents a stunning victory for the official successor to the party that ruled the country for more than seven decades. The vote against United Russia came despite a near record high national approval rating for Vladimir Putin in the aftermath of the return of Crimea from Ukraine. ....
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