Anton Oreh: "Obeshchalkin and the hippopotamus"

“Dmitry Anatolyevich is like a comedian without a smile. By golly. Elections, he says, must be fair not only in the sense of counting votes, but also in the sense of fulfilling promises given to the voter. Out of delicacy, I will not check with the Prime Minister whether it is always He made only those promises that he could keep, and he always kept the promises that he made. Sometimes, however, it would be better if he lied and did not fulfill his plans at all - but that’s the point.

But in practice, Dmitry Anatolyevich’s wish is just as unrealizable as those same election promises of our promised people. To be completely frank, elections are a game with a large element of guile and deception. A candidate will come out and promise that people’s quality of life will not change, and that incomes, at best, will increase by one percent.”