russian propaganda outlets are covering the so-called \u201cprimaries\u201d within the \u201cunited russia\u201d party. The main focus is on the \u201crecord number of \u2018svr\u2019 veterans\u201d that putin\u2019s party will send to the elections.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f<\/span><\/span> This is presented as evidence of kremlin\u2019s care for veteran reintegration, the privileged status of participants in the war against Ukraine, and high democratic standards.<\/p>\n In reality, this is purely a propaganda stunt aimed at creating additional incentives for russians to go to war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n In fact, access to the heavily promoted \u201ctime of heroes\u201d program is limited to a very small circle of war participants loyal to the authorities. Many of them are sham veterans who participated formally and were part of the pro-government elite even before the full-scale invasion. The vast majority of participants in the war against Ukraine are merely expendable resources for kremlin.<\/p>\n The \u201cprimaries\u201d themselves in russia are also a sham since real power in the russian federation belongs solely to putin\u2019s vertical, and local elected bodies are entirely decorative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" russian propaganda outlets are covering the so-called \u201cprimaries\u201d within the \u201cunited russia\u201d party. The main focus is on the \u201crecord number of \u2018svr\u2019 veterans\u201d that putin\u2019s party will send to the elections. \u25ab\ufe0f This is presented as evidence of kremlin\u2019s care for veteran reintegration, the privileged status of participants in the war against Ukraine, and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":930,"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rf-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}