Candor straight out of a porn movie. ⠀ There’s Pamfilova on Channel One (Russia’s main state TV channel), telling the whole country: - These amendments have already been adopted. Adopted! And Pozner chimes in: - That’s known, that’s known, yes. ⠀ Tens of millions of state employees are being herded into this fake “vote” under threat of losing their jobs. Billions of rubles have been spent. A huge number of people have been infected with coronavirus. What is all this for, if the fact that the amendments have already been adopted is so obvious that it cannot be denied? ⠀ It’s just that the bunker grandpa wants his term reset to be celebrated in style. So that the little people remember that he wasn’t just in power for 30 years for no reason — there was some kind of procedure. People walked around with cardboard boxes, and it was called a “nationwide vote.”