No kidding.
The Russian government has successfully rigged the Duma (Parliament) and presidential election, thus further discounting the value of the elections as a democratic institution. In turn, the so-called "opposition" decided to further devaluate the protest movement ideas, proposing clowns (Varlamov) and obscure pointless persons (Shein) as opposition candidates for local government position. Fake elections, fake opposition, but very real money.
This LOLization of politics perfectly suits the existing power structures (AKA Putin junta), allowing them to extract millions of dollars per each day they remain in power.
Every sane person should stay away from this circlejerk of douchebaggery and not allow himself to be involved or associated in any possible way with it.
The whole situation with politics in Russia is unsalvageable and going to be resolved only through total crisis.
So be prepared.
