The article I read was about a debate between two of the eight presidential candidates on the ballot for the Russian Federation’s elections in March. The article is from RT News and was published February 28th, 2018.
The article talks about the debate between presidential candidates Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the representative for the nationalist party, and Ksenia Sobchak, who does not align herself with a specific political party. The two were in a debate on Russia TV discussing Russia’s armed forces as well as other defense issues. The article goes on to describe how it descending into bickering and accusations from both sides, and then Sobchak threw the water from a glass nearby onto Zhirinovsky.
The article also comments on how Zhirinovsky has been in situations like this before and even cites an incident in 1995. It ends with some factual information on the presidential elections that are to be held in Russia on March 18th and lists several other candidates, including Vladimir Putin, but does not fully give the names and associated parties of all 8 candidates before closing.
RT News is a news source that is funded by the Russian Federation but reports on more than just events in Russia so their biases are not always evident nor do they typically have an end goal for their informative pieces. This article shows how fractured the political parties in Russia are that are not Putin. It contains hyperlinks in the article to go to other articles that list more incidents with presidential candidates like Sobchak. There is also something to be said about how all 8 candidates were not listed by name, but the ones they deemed important were, including Putin and the two making the headline. The article makes the two candidates in this debate seem childish and unfit to become the next leader of the Russian Federation to those who are reading it.
“Russian Presidential Candidates Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Ksenia Sobchak at the TV Debate Hosted by Rossya 1 Channel on February 28, 2018.” RT Russian Politics, 1 Mar. 2018, www.rt.com/politics/420078-presidential-debate-zhirinovsky-sobchak/.