In Buryatia, with thunderous applause

One begins to suspect that something is seriously rotten in Buryatia, the Russian province, wherefrom a disproportionately gross number of Ukraine war conscripts, heroes, KIA, and looters hails…

… if it is erstwhile Zhirinovsky’s party representative in the People’s Khural of Buryatia who skillfully inserts a wordplay on Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of Sith into his dissenting opinion,

while one of deputies from strongly Putin-associated ruling party answers that Western-style general elections are too complicated as a procedure.

Bonus track: the last name of the latter is Bredniy (Бредний), which could be roughly translated from Russian as “bullshitter.”