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In Russia there is a central election commission, and it has a chairman. Gradually (first to sociologists and demographers, and then to everyone who fell) it became clear that this position turned a simple, sometimes even a good person into a wizard.
For a very long time, in 1993, the chairman of Cyci was comrade. Ryabov. He once began the tractor driver of the stud farm to them. CM. Budyonny, then knocked into people (in the Supreme Council of Khasbulatov named after the rebellion), and after the rebellious October-93, he intensively earned forgiveness at the front of the votes.
According to school arithmetic, the Russian Constitution in December 1993 did not pass (there were not enough votes), and in the arithmetic of Cyci, the mark of 50% + 1 vote fraught with a magically way. The ballots soon burned, as expected, by the wave of Ryabov’s magic wand.
Then his paranormal abilities were useful in 1996 in the election of the President of Russia.
Immediately after the successful elections of Yeltsin for the second term, the wizard Ryabov was saved by the ambassador to the Czech Republic.
Then, Alexander Albertovich Veshnyakov, who began his career from his post, deputy secretary of the Komsomol Committee of the Northern Shipping Company in his youth, made the chairman of the CEC.
Veshnyakov extremely successfully held elections to the State Duma twice. If in 1999 the barrier somehow crawled the ATP Kiriyenko/Kokh/Nemtsov/Khakamada and Yabloko Yavlinsky, then in 2003 there was not a trace of the so-called democrats. Only liberal democrats in unwashed (in the waters of the Indian Ocean) boots sailed into the Duma.
Even more successfully Veshnyakov twice held Putin’s elections (2000 and 2004). After that, this marine Komsomolets received the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” of the II degree and was rafted out of sight by ambassador to Latvia.

He was putting by the Cycian to steer Vladimir Churov, who in the dashing 90s in St. Petersburg served under Putin Deputy Chairman of the Committee on External Relations of the Administration of St. Petersburg. Tested in countless contacts and contracts, Churov by eagle soared over the urns and cast in the granite the "Law of Churov": "Putin is always right." And the point is not even in the law itself, but in that, so to speak, shamelessness with which Churov repeated this everywhere. The authorities reacted with the same frankness: it was this chief of Cyci who received the official title “Wizard Churov”.
Indeed, under Churov, the elections to the State Duma (2007 and 2011) and twice were completely magical twice - presidential (2008 and 2012).
Churov showed a separate special magic, rejecting all documentary (!) Written in the video (!) Evidence of fraudulent stuffing.
The awards found the wizard: first the Order of Merit to the Fatherland ”of the IV degree, and after the election of Putin, the second time for the first term - the Order of Alexander Nevsky (in April 2012).
There was no free space in the embassies, and Churov made an ambassador without sending anywhere. Such a position is called "Ambassador for Special Orders of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation."
The most striking example of how the place paints (repaints) of a person, the most amazing and visual influence of the position on nature is the incident Ella Pamfilova. Having at the head of Cyci in the spring of 2016, she turned not just into a sorceress at a fantastic speed, but just into a witch.

On her account twice elections to the Duma (2016 and 2021), twice presidential (2018 and 2024) and previously unprecedented with a circus number: “All-Russian vote on amendments to the Russian Constitution” (2020). The sorceress of Ellochka (I say so, for we have been familiar with her for a very long time; in fact from the last millennium) came in the history of Russia in the invention of voting on stumps, over garages, under children's mushrooms, as well as stretching 12-hour voting up to three days (well, isn't witchcraft?).
Perhaps, to some extent, her witching talent was formed in the Uzbek SSR, where her childhood and youth passed; The East is a thin thing, but extremely strong, you can’t squeeze it in a drop and you can’t tear it out.
The character of the sorceress, albeit not one hundred percent Nordic, but very solid, merciless to the enemies of the system; All the fifth columns crashed about this stronghold, whoever heads them: you want Navalny, I want Nadezhdin, I want Duntsov*, you want.
By the way, the sorceress did not allow Duntsov to the presidential election especially elegant. “You are a young woman, you have everything ahead,” the 70-year-old Ella Pamfilova, the 40-year-old Duntsova, addressed the 40-year-old Duntsova and was right in her own way.

Her merits are evaluated and repeatedly re-offered (towards the increase): the Order for Merit to the Fatherland ”of the III degree (2018; the Order of the IV degree already had it), the Order of Alexander Nevsky (2020), the Order“ For Merits to the Fatherland ”of the II degree (2023) and many, many others, a real iconostasis.
Why talk about it now? After all, there seems to be no elections. Firstly, we must say, as long as there is an opportunity (you know: opportunities are reduced rapidly). Secondly, not all the same to talk about the prices of bread and housing and communal services, about Donbass and Trump, and about all that is so much that it rushes out of every iron around the clock. Thirdly, when some (unknown) elections begin, it will be too late to speak. And fourthly, is it harmful to recall this ladder, the steps of which we went down in just 33 years (a fabulous number!).
There is a fifth option. It is possible that in the foreseeable future you (we) will not have any elections at all, because this occupation is empty and extremely expensive (tens of billions), and the authorities need money for a completely different one. And then - in life without elections - you will remember the hemp with tenderness and sadness.
Have you ever looked at the cut down forest, from which only stumps remained? The spectacle is worse than in the cemetery.
Why in this note all the time “cycs”, and not “CEC”? Judge for yourself: what, in your opinion, is the kind of central election commission? Clear business - 300% of women. Why on earth did she make herself in a man, in a man? We have strictly strictly with a change of floor. So Cic! And there are examples of inspirations. The famous Cheka is quite famous, she was always an extreme, not an extremely. And even a “check” was written - she. Even now, in our harsh time, in dictionaries it remained a feminine, because the commission, not commissions.
This cycs in the era of Veshnyakov was offended by the articles “Vote - Don’t vote ...” and “Central Pugs” so much that she even sued, demanding writing and pronunciation in a male gender. She did not work out with her.
Then it did not work out.
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