{"id":4825,"date":"2021-10-17T17:25:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T17:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediateka.online\/learnrussian\/the-red-east-how-russias-communist-party-achieved-unprecedented-electoral-success-in-russias-far-east-previously-a-stronghold-for-the-far-right-liberal-democrats.html"},"modified":"2021-10-17T17:25:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T17:25:16","slug":"the-red-east-how-russias-communist-party-achieved-unprecedented-electoral-success-in-russias-far-east-previously-a-stronghold-for-the-far-right-liberal-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediateka.online\/learnrussian\/the-red-east-how-russias-communist-party-achieved-unprecedented-electoral-success-in-russias-far-east-previously-a-stronghold-for-the-far-right-liberal-democrats.html","title":{"rendered":"The Red East How Russia\u2019s Communist Party achieved unprecedented electoral success in Russia\u2019s Far East \u2014 previously a stronghold for the far-right Liberal Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"EmbedBlock-module_root__28k9U EmbedBlock-module_cc__1BQ5g EmbedBlock-module_full__1TEjx EmbedBlock-module_desktop__SF5a_ EmbedBlock-module_proportional__3lAv4\">The KPRF put up relatively few campaign posters in Vladivostok, but the party managed to win regional assembly elections in every single one of the city\u2019s single-mandate constituencies.Tatyana Mil \/ Reuters \/ Scanpix \/ LETA<\/figure>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_lead__35nXx  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">Russia\u2019s Far East has traditionally been considered LDPR country: in the 2016 State Duma election, the party came in second only to United Russia in every region of the Far Eastern Federal District except Yakutia, where it shared second place with KPRF. Five years ago, LDPR won between 20-30 percent of the vote in the Far East, compared to its average 13 percent throughout the country, and won a similar share of the vote in local legislative elections. In 2021, however, the right-wing Liberal Democrats lost their status as the Far East\u2019s main opposition force, winning only half as many votes as in the previous election, and in some places only a third. This year, it was the Communists who embodied the protest vote. While KPRF received 7-18 percent of the vote throughout the Far East in the 2016 State Duma elections, they received 12-35 percent this time around (more than 20 percent in most regions). United Russia still won in districts throughout the region, albeit on shaky ground, but the Communists are confident voters supported them not only as an act of protest but also for ideological reasons \u2014 and they\u2019re determined to take their success further.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"SimpleBlock-module_h3__2Kv7Y  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\"><strong>The Ussuriysk Navy vs. the Red Protesters<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">In September\u2019s election, LDPR\u2019s representation in the Primorsky Krai Regional Duma shrunk from five deputies to one. What\u2019s more, the party wasn\u2019t able to advance even one candidate in a single-mandate constituency. While the Liberal Democrats were the third most popular party in the regional elections five years ago, leaving the Communists only 0.4 percent of the vote, this year they came in fourth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">In the 2016 Duma elections in Primorye, LDPR came in second, slightly ahead of the Communists. This September, though, they came in third in that race, with their share of the vote falling from 19 to 7.7 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">KPRF won 14 seats (as opposed to 8 in 2016), 10 of which were won in single-mandate districts. This is unusual \u2014 as a rule, the Communists usually win their seats by party list. Additionally, KPRF won all eight single-mandate constituencies in Primorye\u2019s capital, Vladivostok.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">\u201cIn 2016, a lot of people voted for LDPR and \u2018A Just Russia,\u2019 but people also see that they work for United Russia. People here are capable and competent, they\u2019re not stupid. They realize LDPR is a pro-government party,\u201d KPRF Vladivostok city committee head Artyom Samsonov told Meduza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">At the same time, he believes people support the Communists as a matter of principle \u2014 not just as a protest vote, like with LDPR. As evidence, he cited the number of votes won by another communist party, the Communists of Russia. That party\u2019s candidate, Vitaly Libanov, received 15 thousand votes, while Samsonov himself won 45 thousand. \u201cNobody knows him, but in some precincts, Libanov took up to a third of the votes \u2014\u00a0he was higher up on the ballot, and people just saw the word \u201cCommunist\u201d and voted,\u201d said Samsonov, adding that people currently take into account party above all else.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"EmbedBlock-module_root__28k9U EmbedBlock-module_cc__1BQ5g EmbedBlock-module_default__LSDny\"><iframe class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fartem.samsonov.73%2Fposts%2F5044761108897383&amp;width=650&amp;show_text=false&amp;height=365&amp;appId\" style=\"position: absolute; top:0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\"  width=\"650\" height=\"365\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">Samsonov also pointed out that it wasn\u2019t only nameless candidates who were hoping to use KPRF\u2019s name recognition who ran on the party\u2019s ticket; there were locally famous people running, too, including City Duma deputies from Vladivostok and its neighboring Bolshoy Kamen, activists, and journalists. In Samsonov\u2019s opinion, the \u201cparty of power\u201d unwittingly helped the Communists out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">\u201cUnited Russia miscalculated, they created more constituencies and decreased the number of party-list seats, like, \u2018Okay, if they don\u2019t vote for us by party list, let\u2019s run our candidates in single-mandate constituencies.\u2019 But Communists don\u2019t have any money, so it\u2019s easier for our candidates to win in small constituencies, where they can work, go door-to-door, talk to voters, whereas a big constituency would take longer,\u201d said Samsonov.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">According to him, in the past, opposition parties benefitted from high voter turnout, but even with 2021\u2019s relatively low turnout, KPRF did strikingly well. \u201cYou can always count on a certain level of falsification from the government \u2014\u00a0they\u2019ll pay someone off, bring in state employees to the polls, use government resources. If turnout is relatively high, this all gets diluted and doesn\u2019t have a decisive effect. This time, turnout wasn\u2019t the highest, but the national mood is different after pension reform, and people basically understand that 30 years have passed with nothing changing in our country,\u201d said Samsonov.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">Samsonov himself advanced Primorye\u2019s Legislative Assembly by party list, where KPRF came in second, but lost his State Duma campaign in a single-mandate district, losing to United Russia candidate Alexander Shcherbakov by 25 thousand votes. The number three Communist in the assembly was Artavazd Oganesyan, the son of major real estate developer Seiran Oganesyan (Artavazd had already served in the previous regional parliament). A source close to the presidential administration said the Oganesyan family is one of KPRF\u2019s largest sponsors in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">Samsonov is confident he would have won if it hadn\u2019t been for extenuating circumstances in Ussuriysk and other rural regions in the constituency. He believes that under normal circumstances, KPRF would have won both the regional parliamentary election and the State Duma election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">\u201cWe have regions that we like to call \u2018the Chechnya of Primorye\u2019: Dalnerechensk, Chuguyevka. These are small villages with great distances that make it hard to observe the elections for violations,\u201d said Second Secretary of KPRF regional committee Yevgeny Lyashenko, who won the regional parliamentary election in one of Vladivostok\u2019s single-mandate districts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">He recalled the old \u201cUssuriysk Navy\u201d memes that proliferated on the Internet at the time. During the 2018 Primorsky Krai gubernatorial election, in which Communist candidate Andrey Ishchenko was leading for the first time, ahead of acting head of the region Andrey Tarasenko, during the vote count, constituencies began to appear in Ussuriysk that showed 100 percent of voters voting for Tarasenko. Central Electoral Commission Ella Pamfilova said at the time that there had been no violations at the polling places in question because they were locating on ships\u00a0\u2014 despite the fact that Ussuriysk is located several dozen kilometers from the sea, and therefore has no such floating voting booths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">\u201cAt first, Artyom was in the lead, and we joked that the Ussuriysk Navy was going to come and drown us \u2014 and that\u2019s exactly what happened,\u201d said Lyashenko.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">According to him, the Communists in Ussuriysk \u201cpractically managed\u201d to advance one more candidate in a single-mandate constituency \u2014 local municipal deputy Oleg Grigoryev. He was leading in the majority of districts, but in electoral commission No. 2812, according to a protocol signed by all members of the Precinct Electoral Commission, United Russia\u2019s candidate won 74 more votes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">But \u201cElections,\u201d the state automated system for tracking vote totals, shows a different result. According to it, United Russia\u2019s candidate won by 93 votes. Grigoryev\u2019s election monitors were forcibly removed from the election commission\u2019s premises by police, while KPRF lawyer Yana Shestakova sustained injuries. After that, the territorial election commission (TIK) conducted a recount that resolved the difference between the number of ballots and the \u201cElections\u201d result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">\u201cOn September 21, there was no oversight in the TIK building, the seal in the room that contained the ballots was broken. On September 22, the TIK conducted a recount,\u201d Shestakova told Meduza\u2019s correspondent. According to official figures, United Russia\u2019s candidate beat KPRF candidate by a margin of eight votes. KPRF\u2019s Primorsky branch is currently appealing the results in Ussuriysk.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"SimpleBlock-module_h3__2Kv7Y  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\"><strong>\u201cMy color is red\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">In Vladivostok, the Communists\u2019 advantage was so great that the kind of \u201clight correction\u201d employed in Ussuriysk wouldn\u2019t be enough. City Deputy Nadezhda Telelyuyeva, for example, beat United Russia\u2019s candidate by an almost two-fold margin (8 thousand vs. 4.3 thousand votes), while journalist and blogger Gennady Shulga received one and a half thousand more votes than his opponent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">KPRF\u2019s candidate also beat out some high-profile candidates. Telelyuyeva beat Far Eastern Federal University (DVFU) rector Alexey Koshel, while Shulga beat United Russia\u2019s main ideologue in the region, Dmitry Novikov. Lyubov Terendina, another KPRF candidate, beat Pacific State Medical University rector Valentina Shumatova.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">\u201cFor the administration, I\u2019m an extremely toxic figure \u2014\u00a0the fact that I made it [into the regional parliament] has their eye twitching, I\u2019m surprised they even let me run in the election. I was told there would be a difference of a few dozen, maybe even 200 votes, but they were sure to come up with something to ensure I wouldn\u2019t be allowed in. But a 1300-vote difference is really a lot. The authorities knew that if they start falsifying things, it would be a huge scandal,\u201d Shulga told Meduza\u2019s correspondent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">The newly-minted deputy has little in common with the stereotypical communist, or even with the average KPRF candidate \u2014 he wears trendy glasses, tennis shoes, and hoodies, and has an upbeat, cheery way of speaking. His job likely contributes to this: he\u2019s a local journalist, well-known in the area. In February, security officials conducted a search of Shulga and confiscated all his equipment, as well as interrogating him as a witness to a pro-Navalny rally that took place on January 23, which Shulga covered with the outlet newsbox24.tv.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"EmbedBlock-module_root__28k9U EmbedBlock-module_cc__1BQ5g EmbedBlock-module_default__LSDny\"><iframe class=\"lazyload\" id=26-3aaeff2df0f8d1a04a940d6f71c743cdf5b335a07072444976241f6f7c17c02a frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">Shulga calls himself a \u201csocial democrat,\u201d and currently has no plans to become a communist. \u201cI\u2019m not a member of the party \u2014\u00a0KPRF, even with its messaging about a dictatorship of the proletariat, is generally democratic, they don\u2019t make anyone join the party. I\u2019m someone with a heightened sense of social justice, I can see there\u2019s something wrong in our country, and I want to change the situation,\u201d he told Meduza. He\u2019s the first to admit that he\u2019s still \u201cin shock\u201d at his victory, and he credits both the national mood and his \u201cpersonal popularity.\u201d \u201cBeating such a strong United Russia candidate in a protest wave is just unreal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">Shulga admits that he chose to run on KPRF\u2019s ticket because there was \u201cno other freaking party to join,\u201d and that while they might seem too close to the establishment, they\u2019re currently the only party with a chance of becoming a real opposition force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">\u201cI often hear in meetings, \u2018Zyuganov sold everything back in 1996.\u201d My answer is that I was 10 years old back then, and I have no connection to that whatsoever \u2014\u00a0we don\u2019t. Sure, maybe Zyuganov is making some backroom deals, but KPRF is more than just Zyuganov, and they might have their own game going on at the top, but further down the party hierarchy are a lot of young people \u2014 30-40 years old. It\u2019s not the communist principles they care about, it\u2019s the social democratic ones,\u201d Shulga told Meduza\u2019s correspondent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">Nadezhda Telelyuyeva, a deputy in the Vladivostok City Duma who recently won the regional legislative assembly election, admitted that, even a few years ago, she was hardly even an activist. \u201cOther than going to a protest or two against a ban on importing vehicles with steering wheels on the right side, I\u2019m just a regular person.\u201d She got into politics thanks to former KPRF gubernatorial candidate Andrey Ishchenko, who suggested Telelyuyeva run for State Duma in 2017. The campaign was a success. \u201cI went to meet everyone in the constituency,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">Telelyuyeva became a popular city deputy \u2014 she goes after negligent company managers, fights to install new benches, and posts about her various successes on Instagram. \u201cI feel comfortable in KPRF, and it\u2019s interesting for me to work on this territory. Sure, you can point to some pressure points in the party, and if my party was dark blue, they would have said, \u2018Nadya, stop it!\u2019 a long time ago. But my color is red,\u201d she said, laughing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">United Russia chose quite a high-status opponent for Telelyuyeva: DVFU acting rector Alexey Koshel, who previously had no connection to the constituency. Koshel\u2019s political strategists tried their best to outplay Telelyuyeva, putting up flyers with images of a black horse \u2014 for the \u201cdark horse\u201d candidate \u2014 Koshel\u2019s last name. Residents weren\u2019t big fans of the campaign; the posters were hung everywhere, including on people\u2019s freshly-painted homes. \u201cIt\u2019s not quite that the region was fighting an outside invader,\u201d said Telelyuyeva, \u201calthough, on second thought, it was.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"EmbedBlock-module_root__28k9U EmbedBlock-module_cc__1BQ5g EmbedBlock-module_default__LSDny\"><iframe class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fphoto.php%3Ffbid%3D3862599040529527%26set%3Da.329082530547880%26type%3D3&amp;width=650&amp;show_text=false&amp;height=431&amp;appId\" style=\"position: absolute; top:0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\"  width=\"650\" height=\"431\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe>KPRF Vladivostok City Duma deputy Nadezhda Telelyuyeva went out for a promotion and got it:\u00a0she was elected to the Primorsky Krai Regional Duma, beating Far Eastern Federal University acting rector Alexey Koshel.<\/figure>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">Next, fake flyers with Telelyuyeva\u2019s face began to appear on the same buildings and doors, but even then, she was able to score some points with voters when she began personally tearing them down and washing away the marks they left. Finally, another candidate from that constituency tried to get Telelyuyeva removed from the race: DVFU employee Maxim Beloborodov, who represented \u201cA Just Russia.\u201d Beloborodov formally accused Telelyuyeva of having connections to Alexey Navalny\u2019s organization, citing her participation in a rally supporting Navalny on January 23. Ultimately, though, Beloborodov called off his lawsuit. \u201cSuddenly, there was a wave of support for me, and all the people who hadn\u2019t heard of me previously suddenly knew who I was. It was especially good that commission members heard about me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">All of KPRF\u2019s candidates Meduza spoke to said that they only managed to win because they sent their own election monitors to the polls themselves, though they said this was easier in Vladivostok and Bolshoy Kamen than in rural areas and in local \u201celectoral sultanates.\u201d Lyashenko threw up his hands: \u201cOur guys tried to go to Nakhodka to monitor, and as soon as it came time to count the votes, these big guys came in and removed them, hiding the whole process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">Despite the fact that KPRF doesn\u2019t have a majority in the regional assembly (only 14 out of 40 total seats), the communists can now have a meaningful effect on what happens in parliament. \u201cThey have to consider us a factor now. We can disrupt sessions, leave the chamber, break quorum. For statutory matters, you need two-thirds of the vote. We might finally have the chance to make public policy. I\u2019m so glad I had a hand in it and will get to participate, I just can\u2019t get over it,\u201d said Gennady Shulga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">Artyom Samsonov believes the Communists may even be able to reach a majority in the Vladivostok City Duma. \u201cAfter this year\u2019s result, there will be a lot of [strong candidates] who want to run on KPRF\u2019s ticket, and we\u2019ll have all the constituencies covered. If the constituencies are smaller again, they\u2019ll be easier to work in,\u201d he predicted. Yevgeny Lyashenko and Nadezhda Telelyuyeva were more careful with their forecasts. According to Lyashenko, United Russia will take measures to counteract their losses in the city \u2014 \u201cat the very least, they\u2019ll be working hard in the constituencies. [\u2026] That\u2019s why I\u2019m not making any predictions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"SimpleBlock-module_h3__2Kv7Y  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\"><strong>Russia\u2019s Wild West (in the east)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">Primorye is just one of several regions in the Far East where KPRF came out on top and LDPR did poorly. The Communists rose and the Liberal Democrats fell by about the same proportion in every region of the Far Eastern Federal District except Chukotka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">The same trend occurred on both the legislative assembly level and the State Duma level. For instance, in the 2016 State Duma race in Kamchatka Krai, LDPR received 22.98 percent of the vote, while this year they received 11.6 percent (while the Communists received 15.15 and 23.2 percent in those respective years). In the election for the Amur Regional Parliament, LDPR went from earning 30.7 percent of the vote in 2016 to 14.6 percent in 2021, while the Communists went from 17.4 to 26.6 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">In places where only State Duma deputies were elected this September, the proportions were similar. In the Sakhalin region, KPRF made progress, going from 15.5 percent of the vote in 2016 to 28.6 percent in 2021 (while LDPR went from 20.35 to 8.9 percent), and in the Magadan region, KPRF went from 14.84 to 20.6 percent, while LDPR fell from 19.15 to 7.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">\u201cLDPR hasn\u2019t kept its promises: Zhirinovsky promised to step down in favor of [former Khabarovsk Krai governor Sergey] Furgal, and it was great for his approval ratings, but two weeks later, LDPR practically kicked Furgal out. Of course, Zhirinovsky\u2019s words about Furgal had a huge impact \u2014 the idea that they serve good food in jail so it\u2019s fine if he\u2019s sent there,\u201d said KPRF member Yevgeny Lyashenko. \u201cIn 2018, LDPR called on us not to vote in gubernatorial elections for KPRF\u2019s candidate, and to instead vote for \u2018stability,\u2019 plus they voted for pension reform. And so we\u2019ve taken the protest vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">Gennady Shulga, Lyashenko\u2019s new factionmate in the Primorsky Krai Legislative Assembly, agreed with him. \u201cWe\u2019re neighbors and we keep an eye on them in a neighborly way. Zhirinovsky\u2019s behavior had long been raising questions, especially with respect to Sergey Ivanovich [Furgal]. We saw the party\u2019s specific betrayal, how they\u2019re in bed with the Kremlin, how they sent that clown [to Khabarovsk], who they\u2019ll ensure gets a seat no matter how much time he spends in the banya [Russian bathhouse].<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">In an interview with Meduza, LDPR press secretary Alexander Dyupin acknowledged that the party\u2019s popularity \u201creally was negatively affected by the situation with Furgal\u2019s arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">\u201cWe supported and continue to support him however we legally can, but many Far East residents wanted us to take bolder action \u2014 specifically, they wanted us to lead protests in the streets. But we couldn\u2019t go that far,\u00a0a step like that could set the whole Far East on fire. It would have been a revolt, a step towards the country\u2019s destruction \u2014 LDPR will never do anything like that because the preservation of the state is our priority,\u201d said Dyupin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">An LDPR representative added that, after Mikhail Degtyarev\u2019s appointment as Khabarovsk Krai\u2019s acting governor, any protests in the streets led by the party would have automatically become protests against Degtyayev himself. \u201cWe would have been shooting ourselves in the foot,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky said on his Telegram channel that the party could have improved its results in two ways: by calling for street protests or by advocating against vaccinations. \u201cDuring the last campaigns, we actually forced ourselves not to, because we realized that while we might be losing votes on these topics, we could at least save a few lives. But alas, it\u2019s impossible to serve these achievements to voters on a platter. People are always anti-establishment, they love to punish those in power, and that\u2019s why they supported overthrowing the czar in 1917, then the provisional government, and then they were happy to drive out the communists in 1991,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">A source close to the presidential administration described the political situation in the Far East as follows: \u201cThe Far Easterners couldn\u2019t forgive Zhirinovsky for betraying Furgal. Everybody realized that LDPR is not the opposition.\u201d At the same time, he\u2019s confident that Far East residents aren\u2019t especially attached to KPRF, either. \u201cIt\u2019s not about the increase of the pension age and the Communists\u2019 promise to decrease it, these people aren\u2019t stupid, they completely understand that stuff like that can\u2019t just be undone. The Far Easterners went to the polls to piss off the establishment: Putin doesn\u2019t like KPRF, he barred [Pavel] Grudinin from running \u2014\u00a0so what will they do? They\u2019ll vote for the reds,\u201d said the source.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">\u201cOur Wild West\u201d is what a political strategist who\u2019s long work in the Far East called the region. \u201cThese people are bold \u2014\u00a0they\u2019re not big fans of the authorities, and their temperaments are a little freer. Zhirinovsky\u2019s escapades were a better fit for them than this insufferable policy stuff from the Communists. They saw themselves in LDPR, both in Furgal and in [once popular senator from Amur region Ivan] Abramov.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">The strategist noted that this year, LDPR\u2019s campaign in the Far East was rather weak. In his opinion, this could be due to agreements made to appoint Mikhail Degtyarev, an LDPR State Duma deputy, as Khabarovsk Krai governor.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"EmbedBlock-module_root__28k9U EmbedBlock-module_cc__1BQ5g EmbedBlock-module_full__1TEjx EmbedBlock-module_proportional__3lAv4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"\/impro\/efiRIbIvRkSzcidb5jNJumjcNKJf1fup_QSHkWe-7Z4\/fill\/325\/0\/ce\/1\/aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWR1\/emEuaW8vaW1hZ2Uv\/YXR0YWNobWVudHMv\/aW1hZ2VzLzAwNy8x\/NDQvNzk4L29yaWdp\/bmFsL2d5X0JYYXQ2\/UDNnMUpfbkdfLUlD\/RkEuanBn.jpg\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"An LDPR campaign poster next to a Primorsky Krai government building\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/impro\/efiRIbIvRkSzcidb5jNJumjcNKJf1fup_QSHkWe-7Z4\/fill\/325\/0\/ce\/1\/aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWR1\/emEuaW8vaW1hZ2Uv\/YXR0YWNobWVudHMv\/aW1hZ2VzLzAwNy8x\/NDQvNzk4L29yaWdp\/bmFsL2d5X0JYYXQ2\/UDNnMUpfbkdfLUlD\/RkEuanBn.jpg\" alt=\"An LDPR campaign poster next to a Primorsky Krai government building\"><\/noscript>An LDPR campaign poster next to a Primorsky Krai government buildingYuri Smityuk \/ TASS \/ Scanpix \/ LETA<\/figure>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">\u201cBut the case with Degtyayev really decimated LDPR\u2019s reputation as the protest leaders all by itself. If they threw Furgal under the bus, they absolutely crushed this guy with arm-twisting and administration resources. It\u2019s pretty hard to portray yourself as the opposition in circumstances like that. And then the Communists just picked up what they\u2019d dropped. All people wanted was to show what kind of mentality they have here,\u201d a source told Meduza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">Political scientist Gleb Kuznetsov also spoke about the \u201cdistinct nature of the electorate in the Far East,\u201d describing it in more detail. \u201cThere\u2019s a large number of retirees \u2014\u00a0both security officials and ex-inmates, plus guards, who have their own peculiarities. That\u2019s number one. Number two, a large part of the population is very oriented towards seasonal work \u2014\u00a0everything from transporting cars to different types of forest stories. They harbor a fundamental distrust not even of Moscow but of the state itself. With the arrival of Degtyarev and the whole story of Furgal, people saw that LDPR is also part of the state, not just a critic of it,\u201d he said. He then added one more factor: \u201cThere\u2019s a strong anti-vaccine sentiment among LDPR\u2019s electorate \u2014\u00a0and Vladimir Zhirinovsky has been a strong proponent of vaccination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">In addition to that, said Kuznetsov, LDPR doesn\u2019t have any promising leaders in the Far East: \u201cThere\u2019s demand here for a kind of oppositional protest figure, young, not prone to compromising, scandalous, local.\u201d It\u2019s under these conditions that LDPR electorate migrated to KPRF, and partially to the New People party, as the region\u2019s \u201cmain opposition force.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">\u201cKPRF\u2019s success isn\u2019t really a success for them, it\u2019s just a protest. For now, there\u2019s not a sustainable \u2018base\u2019 for the Communists in the Far East,\u201d said Gleb Kuznetsov.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"DonatesTeaser-module_title__hs-yr\">We won\u2019t give up Because you\u2019re with us<\/h3>\n<p>I\u2019m with you, Meduza<\/p>\n<p class=\"MaterialNote-module_note_caption__1ezSo\">Story by <strong>Andrey Pertsev<\/strong>, reporting from Vladivostok<\/p>\n<p class=\"MaterialNote-module_note_credit__PuFyX\">Translation by <strong>Sam Breazeale<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--noindex--><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/meduza.io\/en\/feature\/2021\/10\/14\/the-red-east\">Source<\/a><!--\/noindex--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The KPRF put up relatively few campaign posters in Vladivostok, but the party managed to win regional assembly elections in every single one of the city\u2019s single-mandate constituencies.Tatyana Mil \/ Reuters \/ Scanpix \/ LETA Russia\u2019s Far East has traditionally been 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