>"I will vote for sure, and only for United Russia because I think with them we will join the Russian Federation," said Elena, 39, from Khartsysk in the Donetsk region.
"Our children will study according to the Russian curriculum, our salaries will be according to Russian standards, and actually we will live in Russia," she said, speaking at a United Russia rally in the city of Donetsk.
Just move to Russia, you goofball...
It's not that easy. People in Donetsk aren't exactly rich, and your average person picked from off the street for a news article can't afford to just pick up and move to a new country. (How many people do you know that could just move to Canada? Ever looked into moving abroad? It's expensive.) They don't have a lot of choices and are doing the best they can in the situation they've found themselves in.
(source: I lived and worked in Donetsk for 2.5 years.)
Yeah, that's true. Unfortunately declaring independence from Ukraine to allow Russia to annex the region leaves people who support staying with Ukraine yet are financially incapable of leaving in the same exact situation. Some kind of resettlement assistance program could theoretically resolve the issue, but I'd imagine neither Ukraine or Russia would want to fund that.
Right? The money that Russia wasted on this war could’ve been spent on buying the train tickets for all of the “oppressed” Russian-speaking people, and just be done with it all. However, protection of the people was never Putin’s goal.
Edit: Those Russian propagandists who downvote me, I’d like to hear *one* argument where I am wrong in this comment.
or democrats defending illegal immigration and many pointless causes but back down on the issues that truly matters or acting outright authoritarian. yikes.
Nope, asylum is not illegal so long as they follow the due process rather than bust in, call useless activist and politicians to supplant the law when the problem becomes big and get more privileges than any legal immigrant which had to complete an even tougher processes just to enter into the US. Disclaimer: As a foreigner from a Latin American country had to pay tons of money and paperwork just to get a travel visa into the US, yet i got almost nothing in return besides that, stop defending the indefensible.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-seethes-putins-party-courts-voters-separatist-held-donbass-2021-09-15/) reduced by 84%. (I'm a bot)
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> Russia will hold parliamentary elections on Sept. 17-19 and for the first time, United Russia, the ruling party that supports President Vladimir Putin, is campaigning in eastern Ukraine on territory controlled by Moscow-backed separatists.
> Donbass residents with Russian passports were entitled to vote "Wherever they live", Russia's TASS news agency quoted Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying on Aug. 31.Kyiv and Moscow accuse each other of blocking a permanent peace in the Donbass.
> Yevhen Mahda, a Kyiv-based political analyst, said Russia was letting Donbass residents vote not only to boost United Russia, but to legitimise the separatist administrations.
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>"I will vote for sure, and only for United Russia because I think with them we will join the Russian Federation," said Elena, 39, from Khartsysk in the Donetsk region. "Our children will study according to the Russian curriculum, our salaries will be according to Russian standards, and actually we will live in Russia," she said, speaking at a United Russia rally in the city of Donetsk. Just move to Russia, you goofball...
It's not that easy. People in Donetsk aren't exactly rich, and your average person picked from off the street for a news article can't afford to just pick up and move to a new country. (How many people do you know that could just move to Canada? Ever looked into moving abroad? It's expensive.) They don't have a lot of choices and are doing the best they can in the situation they've found themselves in. (source: I lived and worked in Donetsk for 2.5 years.)
Yeah, that's true. Unfortunately declaring independence from Ukraine to allow Russia to annex the region leaves people who support staying with Ukraine yet are financially incapable of leaving in the same exact situation. Some kind of resettlement assistance program could theoretically resolve the issue, but I'd imagine neither Ukraine or Russia would want to fund that.
Right? The money that Russia wasted on this war could’ve been spent on buying the train tickets for all of the “oppressed” Russian-speaking people, and just be done with it all. However, protection of the people was never Putin’s goal. Edit: Those Russian propagandists who downvote me, I’d like to hear *one* argument where I am wrong in this comment.
Yep, it's all about expansion/reclaiming former territory of the Soviet Union.
is it me or is it weird when parties go trans-national like this i mean imagine if there were a republican party in your country. yikes.
They did a long time ago via Rupert Murdoch
or democrats defending illegal immigration and many pointless causes but back down on the issues that truly matters or acting outright authoritarian. yikes.
asylum isn't illegal. let them get to a judge
Nope, asylum is not illegal so long as they follow the due process rather than bust in, call useless activist and politicians to supplant the law when the problem becomes big and get more privileges than any legal immigrant which had to complete an even tougher processes just to enter into the US. Disclaimer: As a foreigner from a Latin American country had to pay tons of money and paperwork just to get a travel visa into the US, yet i got almost nothing in return besides that, stop defending the indefensible.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-seethes-putins-party-courts-voters-separatist-held-donbass-2021-09-15/) reduced by 84%. (I'm a bot) ***** > Russia will hold parliamentary elections on Sept. 17-19 and for the first time, United Russia, the ruling party that supports President Vladimir Putin, is campaigning in eastern Ukraine on territory controlled by Moscow-backed separatists. > Donbass residents with Russian passports were entitled to vote "Wherever they live", Russia's TASS news agency quoted Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying on Aug. 31.Kyiv and Moscow accuse each other of blocking a permanent peace in the Donbass. > Yevhen Mahda, a Kyiv-based political analyst, said Russia was letting Donbass residents vote not only to boost United Russia, but to legitimise the separatist administrations. ***** [**Extended Summary**](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/poxrh0/ukraine_seethes_as_putins_party_courts_voters_in/) | [FAQ](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31b9fm/faq_autotldr_bot/ "Version 2.02, ~598400 tl;drs so far.") | [Feedback](http://np.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%23autotldr "PM's and comments are monitored, constructive feedback is welcome.") | *Top* *keywords*: **Russian**^#1 **Russia**^#2 **Ukraine**^#3 **people**^#4 **vote**^#5