Should Bolsheviks Take Part in Elections to the Russian Duma?
Last September 2 Putin signed a decree for calling the upcoming elections to the Russian Duma that will cost any candidate trying to get a cushy seat in the Duma from $70 thousand to $300 million dollars. It is estimated that there will participate 15-20 parties with their candidates for a seat in the Duma. Each candidate must gather 200,000 signatures in order to qualify to run or if he or she cannot get the 200 thousand signatures, he or she must give a deposit of $1 million dollars. The question is very logical and relevant – where do these candidates get such money? The candidates of the bourgeois parties are getting subsidized by the business interests, hoping that if elected, these businessmen will benefit from the state orders and coffers. To be a candidate in the CPRF block could cost you $1.5 million. There are all sorts of shady deals being made between candidates, business interests, governors, mayors and their ilk. Even the present bourgeois media notes that the parties tha
