Even though the Russians know that the elections are rigged, they desperately want to keep up the appearance that their country is the best and most democratic, and not at all an evil empire ruled by a crazy dictator. That is why they care so much about keeping up the election show.
Also, the dominant mafia group that runs Russia uses elections to prove to other competing mafia groups that they are still the strongest, able to manipulate millions of people without any protest.
He's from Canada: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/201811 Probably from Toronto, since he moderates "Toronto". He calls himself a Jew when his interlocutor tells he is a Jew: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/5227890
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned both HAMAS violence and Israeli violence: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/palestinian-president-says-he-rejects-killing-civilians-both-sides-conflict-2023-10-12/ So the Palestinian position is quite close to what the President Biden is saying.
In such a case, it makes no sense to negotiate with a corpse. Although a corpse might be better at sticking to agreements.
Not at all. He fully supported the colonial oppression: https://betterlivingthroughbeowulf.com/in-ukraine-a-battle-between-2-poets/
These monuments are dismantled as colonial markers. Every city and town in the empire had to have monuments to Pushkin. They were erected even in some villages. Large cities had several of them. And not because there were so many Pushkin fans. It was a monumental propaganda of the cultural supremacy of Muscovy.
Here it started with tools to report the presence of enemy forces - see e.g. https://bachu.info/ I'm not an expert at organising, but I guess the Internet greatly facilitates civilian resistance - see e.g. https://zlamavka.com/en/home/
They are getting drugs from drug dealers. Here's a Russian traditional public spanking of a drug dealer: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3448310/Drug-dealer-tortured-beaten-death-pro-Russian-rebels.html More details on how they get the drugs: https://theweek.com/defence/drug-use-rife-among-russian-soldiers-in-ukraine
Another reason is that it is much more interesting and impressive to create some super advanced and costly tech instead of maintaining huge stockpiles of simpler materiel.