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Not necessarily. Facebook and most others can use one of the authenticator apps, which work on most mobile devices, SIM card installed or not. Multi factor authentication is a HUGE benefit.

I bet that taught him.

Calm down pumpkin.

You're calling out dumb people all over the shop and then go on to write this. Just wow.

Norton is one of the worst software suites you can have on a PC. In the early days it was kind of OK and then went as far downhill as is possible very quickly. This video goes a long way to explain:

Along with TDS, one of the most annoying overused terms of the decade.

Do they get a policeman's discount?

I'm not going to do your work for you 😉 The only data that seems to pass the sniff test is Navalny's 27% of the vote in the 2013 Moscow mayoral election. Quite the difference from 5%. With his chances of success so low, it adds weight to the question of who poisoned him and to what end. I'll accept your point about the oligarchs. Perhaps that explains where much of Putin's own substantial wealth comes from (assumption). Also noted is that Putin threw due process out the window if your account of having them imprisoned without giving them any reason is accurate, not that I feel particularly sorry for them I have an inherent distrust of any "leader" who finds himself able to hold power over a nation for decades, especiallty when laws are changed to facilitate it. Their peers would include Robert Mugabe, Xi Jingping, Hun Sen and Putin himself.

Just fact checking this. What and when was the election that Navalny stood head to head with Putin in where he achieved <1% of the vote (was that the best he achieved in a comparable election), and are you sure about the 5% figure in the Moscow mayoral election?

Actually he's scoring some good points and I like to learn, which is why I'm asking questions. Your reply is rather lacking, perhaps you can learn too.

Well I'm nothing if not gullible. So who poisoned him and to what end? ...who decides if it's fake or not? Can't the people decide for themselves?

Gotya, so I can't include the one that proves the point. There's little point in him suppressing other parties that can't get their act together and will likely never construct a meaningful opposition. You didn't answer the bit about the censorship of foreign media. While I'm at it, why were the people that were peacefully protesting about the war (sorry, special military operation) summarily rounded up? Is this the free Russia that you love, where people are voting for the man that doesn't give them much of a meaningful choice? Are you free to protest about the war in the middle of Red Square without any threat of repercussion?

Right, so if Putin is so very much for the people and is almost universally loved by the people, why is there a need to almost totally suppress any political opposition? Why is there any need for the massive (even more than the US) censorship of foreign media?

You mean like giving away a significant portion of the national resource pot of gold to a handful of "the chosen ones" to create the Oligarchs? ...and taking an even bigger pot for himself?

I'm not American, haven't visited there in more than a decade and have no plans to return. If you think that that me or most others that despise what Putin is doing just because America told me to then none of your points will ever have much validity. In fact, jog on.

Now you're starting to reveal your reality. It's not about right and wrong, or choices, it's about toeing the line with the bully or else. Foxtrot oscar to that.

Sorry Bob, don't watch either of them. Not rt.com either.

My USA? You know little to nothing about me and this proves it. I guess I was taking your lead. Read your replies in this thread. Exactly what are you trying to achieve?

Africa is a nation? Did the large ones have a stronger vote than the others? In that case China and India can pretty much vote in whatever they want. Were you in a Friends episode, "The One With The Muppet" ?

Quite possibly, but I liked the part where the vast majority told Putin to stick his "peace deal" up his jacksie.

... and who was it again that was blindly following whatever their leader told them?

I'd forgotten that Putin allowed his population that choice.

While "free" might be a little bit of a stretch, I'm rather glad that I was born in the West that you seem to loathe, rather than, perhaps, Russia (or CCCP as it would have been then).

What a complete and utter load of bollards.

Agreed. The reason that I loathe the guy is that the referendum, when successful was only the very start of the work that was needed to leave the EU and build a successful, sustainable economy away from the bloc.