Well, looks like the Western Media and Elite shot their load too early again, because if something will get RTs and Likes on Twitter, why wait for facts!!
Just the two occasions in the last few days:
Navalny's "poisoning"
https://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/news/2019/07/31/807723-vrachi-navalnogo
Toxicology test of Navalny came back....no traces of poison found. Wondering if Bill Browder will take down his tweets that got over 10k+ RTs and 20K likes?? Also, if Navalny was a politician in ANYWHERE in the West, he'd be immediately be labelled as racist and far-right, since he wants to terminate visa-free regime with Muslim central Asian countries and have attended many nationalists parades and even called people from the caucus "cockroaches".
Second fake news spread about Russia by Western media this week:
Yea, this supposed "Putin critic" , "pro-democracy" (McCain ass licker) young guy didn't die. It was his FATHER who died which has the same name as him. But don't let the facts get in their way!
For all the cries of Western media about "Russian disinformation", they are the masters of spreading disinformation about Russian internal affairs.
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Also hilarious how the same people who've most likely never been to Russia or spoke to a Russian and spent 2 years here making 100 tweet threads about the evil "Russians" controlling US and invading US democracy, think they know best what Russian people want.
The reason Putin is so popular in Russia is because of the Yeltsin feck-ups in the 90s where average life expectancy in Russia dropped to war-times and GDP was lower than that of the Netherlands, you could get mugged and murdered on the bus for not giving up your seat, complete lawless anarchy at times and he was just a total embarrassment who was pissed drunk most the time, making Russia laughing stock of the world as lots of Western multinationals including Mr. Browder looted Russia dry. Yeltsin militarily attacked his own parliament, but he was Western approved, so there were no concerns of "threats to democracy" and US did all they can to get him re-elected in 1996 with that infamous Times magazine cover laughing it up.
So yea, go study some history and talk to some people who actually have skin in the game and have experiences life there, so you can understand their POV better. When Putin eventually goes, Western-approved liberal democracy is one of the last things that'll replace it. Russia will either become further nationalist or possibly a return to socialism.