Elections are a nerve-racking business, but they do have some especially pleasant upsides. For example, you can air campaign ads on television.

So here you have not some underground online propaganda from fringe outsiders, but the official campaign ad of the RPR-PARNAS party in the Kostroma Region elections. It was submitted to the election commission and everything.

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I’m eagerly waiting for the moment when this starts airing in rotation on Kostroma’s Rossiya-1 (a Russian state TV channel).

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