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Meppo's Electoral Molehill

concept list

1998–1999: Sergei Kiriyenko (nonpartisan / Right Cause)
1999–2007: Yury Luzhkov (Fatherland – All Russia)
1999 def. Gennady Zyuganov (CPRF), Boris Nemtsov (Right Cause), Grigory Yavlinsky (Yabloko), Vladimir Zhirinovsky (LDPR)
2003 def. Aleksandr Lebed (Union of Right Forces), Yury Lodkin (CPRF), Grigory Yavlinsky (Yabloko)
2007–2011: Boris Gromov (Fatherland – All Russia)
2007 def. Boris Nemtsov (Union of Right Forces), Gennady Zyuganov (CPRF), Vladimir Zhirinovsky (LDPR)
2011–2015: Sergei Zhilkin (Union of Right Forces)
2011 def. Boris Gromov (Fatherland – All Russia), Mikhail Yevdokimov (Agrarian), Viktor Shershunov (CPRF), Olga Beklemishcheva (Social Democratic)
2015–2022: Sergei Sobyanin (Fatherland – All Russia)
2015 def. Sergei Zhilkin (Union of Right Forces), Vyacheslav Lysakov (Third Force), Roman Grebennik (CPRF), Tatyana Astrakhankina (Communists of the Future)
2019 def. Sergei Levchenko (CPRF), Mikhail Kasyanov (Union of Right Forces), Nikolai Rybakov (Yabloko)
2022–2023: Vyacheslav Volodin (Fatherland – All Russia)
2023–present: Artyom Samsonov (Union of Left Forces)
2023 def. Yegor Beroyev (nonpartisan), Sergei Andreyev (Union of Right Forces), Anastasia Rakova (Fatherland – All Russia)

"[Vyacheslav Volodin] has always had presidential ambitions, at least since 2011... A major party leader at only 47, a canny political operator who knows the Duma inside and out, a far more publicly aggressive and proactive politician than most, almost comparable to an American congressman. A lot of people argued that it helped him shore up Sobyanin in the Duma, shore up his conservative credentials – especially once the backlash to his COVID restrictions was whipped up. A lot of people saw him as the 'grey cardinal' of Fatherland by that point, or the future of Russian conservatism, a kind of Orthodox Russophilia reborn, draped in the rags of the Republican Party...

Frankly speaking, this was also his greatest weakness. This aggression, this arrogance made him intolerant of compromises. He was incapable of responding to the attacks lobbed on his character on the Internet. For Volodin, 2023 really was the worst possible moment— all of the Sobyanin administration's scandals were now his problem, and, well, you already know what the surrogate scandal did. And thank God it did."
(c) Protoiereus Vsevolod Chaplin in interview to Dozhd, c. 10.02.2023

I had some other considerations for the President-elect but I don't really know any expressly left-wing Russian musicians other than Rustem Bulatov and he doesn't seem like a guy who would be willing to participate in politics even if most of his songs are political to some extent
 
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Mason, Adrian Graye Vernworth, Osran, Hettie Cutburn, Vitimir, Terra Snapdragon, Darius Deamonne, Eberwolf the Huntsman, Raine Whispers, Tinella Nosa, Hieronymus Bump, Piniet

ATLF: The Owl House

List of Great Presidents of the Republic of the Boiling Isles

2022 – 2027: Raine Whispers (Covens Against The Throne) [interim]
2022 – 2023: Mason Tholomule // Adrian Graye Vernworth // Osran Osranovic // Hettie Cutburn // Vitimir Vikkener // Terra Snapdragon // Darius Deamonne // Eberwolf the Huntsman // Raine Whispers
2023: Mason Tholomule // vacant // vacant // vacant // vacant // vacant // Darius Deamonne // Eberwolf the Huntsman // Raine Whispers
2023 – 2025: Mason Tholomule // Goddard de Kaap // Jule Porter // Marbio Gallo // Cecilia Helsinger // Hieronymus Bump // Darius Deamonne // Eberwolf the Huntsman // Raine Whispers
2025 – 2027: Mason Tholomule // Goddard de Kaap // Jule Porter // Marbio Gallo // Porcinius Pale III // Wielan Stark // Darius Deamonne // Eberwolf the Huntsman // Raine Whispers
2027 – pres: Piniet (Covens United for Brotherhood, Energy and Success)
2027 def. Raine Whispers (CATTS), Gen. Rodolf Sang (SHIBA), Shiran Shiganovic (TIDA), Hosea Childern Weisrig (WINTER), Tinella Nosa (nonpartisan), etc.
2027 – pres: Vinyard Valbech // Adrian Graye Vernworth // Akacia Kronovna // Marbio Gallo // Ermenir Klobanu // Lirio Andusias // Darius Deamonne // Eberwolf the Huntsman // Circe Cadorne

It is commonly understood that the Empire of the Boiling Isles (or, for the varied witches and demons native to that land, just "The Empire", for there was no other in their history) lasted 50 years - between the Crusades of Unity and the prophesied, disastrous Day of Unity which brought a divine child from the stars and sapped countless witches of their bile. The exact historiography is imprecise on account of differing calendars between the Demon Realm and Earth, question of relation between the Empire and the heartland-based "golden principality" in which worshippers of the Living Titan first held sway, as well as plain loss of entire troves of historical documents during the period of anarchy and malaise that followed the Day of Unity - to say nothing of the revelation that Belos, the flag-bearer of the Crusades, the humble messenger of the Titan and the one and only Emperor in the otherwise raucous Isles' history, was an Earthborn conman who turned himself into a beast of rot in a spiteful quest to wipe out all of witchkind.

In light of this revelation and Belos's final death, his former Coven Heads - those that were conspiring against him in secret, anyway - put their rivalries aside and established a temporary council government to preside over the reconstruction and the establishment of a democracy, with Bard Coven Head Raine Whispers as the interim Great President (a title picked from several pre-Belosian city-states which had a similar form of government). This development was met with adulation from the witches and demons liberated from the Collector's reign of terror, their families that had been forced underground, and the various refugees from regions - such as the once-sandy Left Arm - that had been ruined over the course of Belos and the Collector's havoc; salesmen, conmen and Coven scouts that once jockeyed for power at the black markets of Bonesborough and Latissa put their rivalries aside to rebuild their beloved cities, and the number of humans visiting the Demon Realm grew exponentially once certain officials were made aware of the awesome capabilities of the Demon Realm and the grave humanitarian situation in the Boiling Isles.

The problems of the Boiling Isles did not stop at reconstruction. Though very few were willing to publicly praise the "messenger of the Titan" who turned out to be a genocidal maniac, the Empire - the first nation-state in the history of a corpsemass otherwise defined by continuous wars between petty city-states, private armies of marauders and hostile magical overgrowths brought about by mere banditism - was, for better or worse, his creation, brought about by the fervent force of acolytes believing in a just god(dess) just underneath their feet. And while the Emperor himself was now doomed to be damned, those most dependent from his policies, among them Coven scouts and their families as well as people involved in timber and artificial staff production, listened to tales and campaign speeches from local barons, bureaucrats and ex-soldiers that were once the staunchest of Imperial loyalists, and so believed in the ideal of a single united Empire, free of prejudice, banditism, outside interference and the wickedness of wild magic. As employment grew increasingly scarce, scandals within the Coven Council were made clearer and ever-larger amounts of human corporations and government agents swept in to manage abandoned businesses and factories, the dream of the Empire grew stronger.

On the flipside, hundreds of thousands of witches and demons had lost a relative, a partner, or a friend to the Emperor's Coven and their agents, to the pits of hellfire, the petrifying statues or worse, on account of them being a practitioner of "wild magic", without sigil and constantly on the run. Plain on paper, the "wild witch" label was increasingly broad in practice as it was applied to fervent regionalists, non-Titanists and nobles who opposed the Crusades; many people were branded "wild witches" on account of little as grudges on a loyalist mayor's part, despite the occasional "government purification" campaign announced by the Emperor. Now that the False Emperor has been unveiled as a bestial murderer, many ex-"wild witches", their families and their supporters demanded justice - and found nothing as the government, composed overwhelmingly of former Coven Heads (and, some noted, their old chums from Hexside), solemnly stated that most of the archived documents on "liquidated" wild witches and "mental purification centers" had been destroyed in the three months after the Day of Unity, while all but the most infamously vile Coven officials walked free. As employment grew increasingly scarce, scandals within the Coven Council were made clearer and ever-larger amounts of human corporations and government agents swept in to manage abandoned businesses and factories, resentment against the leftovers of the rotten Empire and the worthless round-ears that held it up loomed large.

The first proper democratic campaign for Great President was a disaster. Taking advantage of underdeveloped electoral law and generous campaign opportunities offered by scroll networks, crystal balls, illusionists and public criers, a demon businessman named Piniet rapidly ascended to the top of the polls. Though his actual campaign program was rather vague beyond attacks on the Coven establishment and the alleged "Hexsider clique", as well as promises to make the Boiling Isles even with the Human Realm, the telegenic, charismatic publisher with zero direct ties to the genocidal Belosian regime won a plurality of the vote in the first round - and then a majority, after humiliating the notoriously performance-anxious Bard Coven Head in the debates. Sure, there was that pesky accusation of debt-trapping writers under the threat of death by magical cube-assisted crushing, but it was nothing American lawyers couldn't work with, and, after the Owl Lady allegedly tried to assist her partner by creating a massive illusion, the case was no longer taken seriously.

It is now 2029. Numerous Titan blood rigs ring the Boiling Isles' shores, with specially designed grimwalkers and automatons recovering the excess produce of the naturally-occurring portals crossing time and space; though Piniet was elected on promises to ensure that good witches and demons would profit first, the vast majority of the rigs remain owned by the US government and assorted companies of human origin. Republican ships cross the great fugue of the Boiling Sea to reconnect with the Empire's former colonies - to varying success. The University of Wild Magic is embroiled in a scandal over an inexplicably low amount of teachers and lack of compliance with safety standards. Miners in the Heartland and nomadic chirodemons from the Left Arm are rallying in the streets, demanding proper housing somewhere that isn't a frozen wasteland. In Bonesborough, masked younglings torch human books and spraypaint ancient runes over cinema theatres. The Great President himself is currently in Latissa, talking about an upcoming referendum to abolish the Coven Council once and for all, replacing it with a more concrete Council of Magisters - though many observers see this as a ploy to pull the rug from under the feet of prospective granpresidential candidate Lilith Clawthorne. Blight Industries, once the preeminent abomination-based security contractor in the Empire, has been destroyed by endless lawsuits and competition from more varied manufacturers, forcing the family heiress and her human wife (increasingly deeply estranged from her status as a human) to look for new jobs.

And deep beneath the long-dead Titan's flesh-soil, a certain green rot spreads, its autonomous cells attaching themselves to paliswood tree roots for sustenance. It may not be a sapient being - no longer, at least - but it is thinking, and there is a certain purpose to its criss-cross movements along certain tombs and observatories of far older civilizations. Under the long-ruined crystalline roof of one such observatory lies an altar, surrounded by indecipherable runes and murals of star people descending upon the planet. A trident-shaped object in the center points directly at the stars.
 
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the duality of man
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update: apparently, according to another vaguely notable Muscovite public figure (former Gudkov staffer and Party of Growth candidate for the 196th constituency during the 2021 State Duma elections) Elvira Vikhareva, immediately after 24 February 2022 this very same Sergei Savostyanov privately talked with her about creating a second Russian Opposition Coordination Council in case Putin croaks.

side note: according to SOTA, three sitting CPRF deputies - public war supporters Viktor Maksimov and Sergei Savostyanov as well as Yekaterina Yengalycheva (noted COVID denier and anti-Zionist) - may not be renominated for 2024 under the new district map. However, CPRF may nominate sitting Basmanny council deputy Pavel Ivanov (who y'all may recognize as the man behind the PARTISAN brand/team) for one of the districts.

 
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update: apparently, according to another vaguely notable Muscovite public figure (former Gudkov staffer and Party of Growth candidate for the 196th constituency during the 2021 State Duma elections) Elvira Vikhareva, immediately after 24 February 2022 this very same Sergei Savostyanov privately talked with her about creating a second Russian Opposition Coordination Council in case Putin croaks.

side note: according to SOTA, three sitting CPRF deputies - public war supporters Viktor Maksimov and Sergei Savostyanov as well as Yekaterina Yengalycheva (noted COVID denier and anti-Zionist) - may not be renominated for 2024 under the new district map. However, CPRF may nominate sitting Basmanny council deputy Pavel Ivanov (who y'all may recognize as the man behind the PARTISAN brand/team) for one of the districts.

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The CPRF is once again a fascinatingly interesting entity given the Biggest Opposition Party nature of it.

The Partisan Brand is interesting, from what I’ve heard, the CPRF youth members are slowly dripping into the party at large and have a ‘angry, confrontational Leftist’ image which seems at odds for a party that at one point appealed primarily to pensioners and Soviet Nostalgics (I know it still aggressively caters to that ground but it does have those other folks within it).

Oh also I remember reading some articles from Open Democracy from the Early to Mid 10s which discuss the contradictory nature of the CPRF very well (including it’s waffling over Labour Rights etc.)
 
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The CPRF is once again a fascinatingly interesting entity given the Biggest Opposition Party nature of it.

The Partisan Brand is interesting, from what I’ve heard, the CPRF youth members are slowly dripping into the party at large and have a ‘angry, confrontational Leftist’ image which seems at odds for a party that at one point appealed primarily to pensioners and Soviet Nostalgics (I know it still aggressively caters to that ground but it does have those other folks within it).

Oh also I remember reading some articles from Open Democracy from the Early to Mid 10s which discuss the contradictory nature of the CPRF very well (including it’s waffling over Labour Rights etc.)
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Honestly I think it'd be really funny (if morbid) if the Second Opposition Coordination Council did come into existence and some time later their chosen candidate had to deal with a coup attempt by Prigozhin
 
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Honestly I think it'd be really funny (if morbid) if the Second Opposition Coordination Council did come into existence and some time later their chosen candidate had to deal with a coup attempt by Prigozhin
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An Alt 2020s where Putin dies of health reasons (Covid? Whatever he’s taking those pills for?) and the Coordination Council forms to get the ground ready for 20204…only for Prigozhin to drive tanks to Moscow etc.
 
self-indulgent musing on the 2024 Moscow City Duma redistricting but everything goes wrong

1. Ivan Ulyanchenko (CPRF)
2. Dmitry Loktev (nonpartisan)
3. Andrei Grebennik (CPRF)
4. Maria Kiselyova (United Russia | "My Moscow")
5. Yevgeny Bunimovich (Yabloko)
6. Nadezhda Perfilova (United Russia)
7. Darya Besedina (Yabloko)
8. Andrei Medvedev (United Russia | "My Moscow")
9. Larisa Kartavtseva (United Russia)
10. Nikolai Zubrilin (CPRF)
11. Alexei Shaposhnikov (United Russia)
12. Igor Buskin (United Russia)
13. Maksim Kruglov (Yabloko)
14. Kseniya Prokhorova (CPRF)
15. Mikhail Timonov (A Just Russia — For Truth)
16. Irina Kupriyanova (CPRF)
17. Yelena Yanchuk (CPRF)
18. Pyotr Karmanov (Yabloko)
19. Yevgeny Stupin (nonpartisan)
20. Leonid Zyuganov (CPRF)
21. Inna Svyatenko (United Russia)
22. Yelena Nikolayeva (United Russia | "My Moscow")
23. Pavel Tarasov (CPRF)
24. Anton Malyshev (New People)
25. Kirill Shchitov (United Russia)
26. Stepan Orlov (United Russia)
27. Yelena Samyshina (United Russia)
28. Nikolai Kolosov (New People)
29. Lyubov Nikitina (CPRF)
30. Klim Likhachyov (CPRF)
31. Lyudmila Guseva (United Russia)
32. Aleksandr Semennikov (United Russia)
33. Mikhail Tarantsov (CPRF)
34. Boris Izrailev (CPRF)
35. Nikolai Volkov (CPRF)
36. Olga Sharapova (United Russia)
37. Valery Golovchenko (United Russia | "My Moscow")
38. Tatyana Batysheva (United Russia)
39. Igor Sukhanov (CPRF)
40. Yelena Chekan (CPRF)
41. Konstantin Konkov (nonpartisan)
42. Olga Frolova (CPRF)
43. Sergei Mitrokhin (Yabloko)
44. Yelena Shuvalova (nonpartisan)
45. Andrei Morev (Yabloko)
 
Very presumptious, incoherent list inspired by a Telegram post that dealt me substantial psychic damage. Needed to get something done, regardless.

DISCLAIMER: I find it uncomfortable to write about the late stage of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict, particularly as the primary setting of an AH work. I do not desire to make a mockery of the suffering that has been dealt to the Ukrainian people on behalf of my country, and I hope that this short list does not go on to be perceived as such.

consider this a gift @Oppo

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Sergei Savostyanov (CPRF), Moscow City Duma legislator and one of the co-organizers of the Second Opposition Coordination Council, shows up in camo for speech on "supporting the people's President against the fascist flayer Prigozhin", c. September 2023

2012 – 2022: Vladimir Putin (nonpartisan, de facto United Russia)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine: Russian assault in Sumy, Chernihiv, Kyiv oblasts repelled, invasion of south coast slowed down by destruction of bridges between Crimea and mainland
• U.S. President Donald Trump pledges "huge" weapon package (to compensate for the post-Afghanistan approval ratings drop, per the US commentariat) after collapse of Istanbul negotiations, states favorability towards limited no-fly zone in Kyiv and Odessa
• Ukraine begins counter-offensive around March 2023, achieves moderate breakthroughs on the Melitopol line despite loss of Bakhmut
• Nuclear threats spike around spring 2023, Pentagon detects shift in the Russian nuclear posture
• Putin disappears from public around February 2023, reported dead from heart disease from after two weeks of media silence
2023 – 2023: Mikhail Mishustin (nonpartisan, de facto United Russia)
• New York Times reports on discussions between Mishustin, Trump, Zelensky intermediaries about de facto peace talks, stalling on account of disputes over demilitarized zone borders, NATO presence and arrests of war criminals; discussions denied by both sides, impromptu nationalist "marches in support of our troops" held in Moscow that Proekt alleges were organized by the Kovalchuk brothers
• Western media outlets pick up on uncharacteristically antagonistic statements from UR members towards Pres. Mishustin during the attempted nomination of Daniil Yegorov for Prime Minister, fueling rumor mills
• Mishustin resigns in early April following apparent poisoning incident, Vyacheslav Volodin becomes Acting President
2023 – 2023: Vyacheslav Volodin (United Russia)
• Gennady Zyuganov passes away at the age of 79; CPRF nominates 2018 presidential nominee Pavel Grudinin; 2023 snap campaign noted for severe increase in public activity on behalf of opposition municipal deputies
• Volodin wins 49.6% of the vote to Grudinin's 21.3% despite electronic voting and extensive inequality in campaigning, forcing presidential election to a second round
• Beatdown of mobilized soldiers' wives, students in St. Petersburg and Kemerovo becomes nationwide news despite censorship, Volodin's public promises of turnover; several State Duma deputies, in particular Oleg Mikhailov of Komi Republic, publicly demand withdrawal from Ukraine
2023 – present: Pavel Grudinin (Communist)
2023 def. Vyacheslav Volodin (United Russia), Dmitry Kuznetsov (A Just Russia – For Truth), Grigory Yavlinsky (Yabloko), Alexei Nechayev (New People)
• October 2023 coup attempt: Yevgeny Prigozhin announces nationwide "March for Justice" against the "Washington puppet" President-elect Grudinin
• President-elect Grudinin survives explosion at Grand Kremlin Palace, declares that Prigozhin will be punished accordingly
• Several high-ranking statesmen — among them Sergei Mironov, Sergei Surovikin and Aleksandr Bastrykin — arrested on charges of assisting Prigozhin
• Prigozhin killed by drone outside Smolensk in November 2023, Ramzan Kadyrov found to have "disappeared" despite alleged moves to secure de jure independence from Russia
• President Grudinin announces dissolution of State Duma in January 2024; United Russia and LDPR forcibly disbanded amidst ongoing investigations into key surviving MPs
 
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inspired by the recent spike in Gilded Age lists; I'd probably continue this further until 1932 but I have no idea what else to write and I've spent way too much time just trying to think of a writeup for John A. Johnson
my apologies to @Time Enough and @Beata Beatrix

1889 – 1897: Benjamin Harrison (Republican)
'88 (w. Levi P. Morton): Grover Cleveland / Allen G. Thurman (Democratic)
'92 (w. Whitelaw Reid): Grover Cleveland / Isaac P. Gray (Democratic), Leonidas L. Polk / John G. Otis (People's)
1897 – 1901: Robert E. Pattison (Democratic)
'96 (w. Adlai Stevenson): Levi P. Morton / Joseph W. Fifer (Republican), Leonidas L. Polk / James H. Kyle (People's)
1901 – 1905: Redfield Proctor (Republican)
'00 (w. Henry U. Johnson): Robert E. Pattison / Adlai Stevenson (Democratic), Frank Steunenberg / Thomas E. Watson (People's)
1905 – 1909: Joseph B. Foraker (Republican)
'04 (w. Henry T. Gage): Calvin S. Brice / Patrick H. Winston Jr. (Democratic), Ignatius L. Donnelly / Milford W. Howard ("Straight-Out" People's)
1909 – 1914: John A. Johnson (Democratic)
'08 (w. Carter H. Harrison): Joseph B. Foraker / James S. Sherman (Republican)
'12 (w. Carter H. Harrison): Albert Beveridge / Charlemagne Tower Jr. (Republican), Eugene V. Debs / Carl D. Thompson (Socialist)
1914 – 1921: Carter H. Harrison (Democratic)
'16 (w. J. Hamilton Lewis): Charles E. Hughes / Charles Dick (Republican), Emil Seidel / Arthur LeSueur (Socialist)
1921 – 1929: Frank O. Lowden (Republican)
'20 (w. Charles S. Whitman): J. Hamilton Lewis / James W. Gerard (Democratic)
'24 (w. Charles S. Whitman): Albert C. Ritchie / Michael Liebel Jr. (Democratic)
1929 – 1933: Charles S. Whitman (Republican)
'28 (w. Charles Curtis): A. Vic Donahey / Jesse H. Jones (Democratic), Lynn Frazier / Huey P. Long (Christian Reform)
1933 – 1936: William G. McAdoo (Democratic)
'32 (w. Edmund G. de Valera): Charles S. Whitman / Hanford MacNider (Republican)

• 23.) Benjamin Harrison | Rep. | Ind. – a "living and rejuvenated Republican" who established high tariffs to pay for high veterans' pensions and federal education, fought to pass substantial civil rights protections, and presided over a brief war with Chile and a severe economic depression.
• 24.) Robert E. Pattison | Dem. | Penn. – the young Governor of Pennsylvania, who triumphed in 1896 more so due to the continuing Panic of 1893 and his reform credentials than his "sound money" outlook; generally deemed a bland figure by historians, whose mildly successful economic policies faltered amidst Attorney General Olney's reprisals against striking workers and the intervention of the German Empire to mediate the Cuban Insurrection.
• 25.) Redfield Proctor | Rep. | Vt. – former Governor of Vermont and Secretary of War under Harrison, who pursued the establishment of a forestry service and projected a "peace through strength" policy through further expansion of the Navy despite his own overall isolationism; chose not to run for another term owing to health issues.
• 26.) Joseph B. Foraker | Rep. | Ohio – U.S. Senator from Ohio who reversed course on his precedessor's foreign policy, notably getting involved in the Colombian war against the neo-Bolivarianist dictator Cipriano Castro, annexing Panama, and antagonizing the German Empire in regards to the annexation of the Philippines; though regarded well by modern historians owing to his support of black voting rights, the Foraker administration was marred by Republican internal quarrels and Secretary of War Roosevelt's racist statements towards German-Americans.
• 27.) John A. Johnson | Dem. | Minn. – Swedish-American Governor of Minnesota, erroneously called "the first Hyphenated President" upon his narrow election; a timid orator who relied heavily on bipartisan deals to pass progressive measures such as freight rate regulation and the Pure Drug Act, Johnson remains popular among diaspora politicians despite dying of gastrointestinal cancer shortly into his second term.
• 28.) Carter H. Harrison IV | Dem. | Ill. – Blue-blooded newspaper publisher who went a long way from Mayor of Chicago to Vice President, Carter Harrison is generally regarded as an above-average President, one who pragmatically avoided entering the First Great War and mediated the establishment of the Kingdom of Ireland; however, opposition to Prohibition, race riots, a sex scandal in the Navy and the establishment of Zapatismo in Mexico have generally turned the President's reputation as a "lax, tolerant but solid reformer" on its head.
• 29.) Frank O. Lowden | Rep. | Ill. – the conservative Governor of Illinois who won in a landslide over his less moralist predecessor, Lowden is generally ranked an average President; popular for much of his Presidency (in part due to his hands-off approach to government), Lowden had seen his administration marred by the end of his term on account of Prohibition and spending scandals.
• 30.) Charles S. Whitman | Rep. | N.Y. – Vice President and former Governor of New York, initially selected for his notability as an anti-corruption attorney who effectively prosecuted the so-called "Russian Bureau plot" of 1919; generally unpopular among historians for his conservative economic policies, in particular due to reliance on "commerce czars" Andrew Mellon and Odgen Mills, which are generally believed to have contributed to his defeat in 1932.
• 31.) William G. McAdoo | Dem. | Tenn. – former Secretary of the Treasury and one-time Governor of Tennessee, long vaunted as a party leader and potential presidential candidate before his compromise nomination and eventual inauguration at the ripe old age of 69; generally ranked an above-average President for his role in alleviating the effects of the German debt crisis of 1930 and the Dust Bowl on the American markets, creating the Tennessee Valley Federal Authority, and tacit support for the Anglo-Franco-Japanese Allies against the Sobor Powers in the ensuing Second Great War, even over the dissent of his authoritative Vice President and eventual successor.
 
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inspired by the recent spike in Gilded Age lists; I'd probably continue this further until 1932 but I have no idea what else to write and I've spent way too much time just trying to think of a writeup for John A. Johnson
my apologies to @Time Enough and @Beata Beatrix
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Ah cool, I enjoy the John A. Johnson section, he doesn’t get much love I notice. I enjoy the brief Robert Patterson section, elected by the workers who eventually he turns against due to the crisis of the late 1890s etc,
 
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Ah cool, I enjoy the John A. Johnson section, he doesn’t get much love I notice. I enjoy the brief Robert Patterson section, elected by the workers who eventually he turns against due to the crisis of the late 1890s etc,
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Thanks!

Yeah, Pattison's coalition is a bit more urban-oriented compared to Bryan's; ITTL Bryan doesn't win his seat (until much later, I suppose) and with Harrison still at the helm the Bourbon Democrats aren't as thoroughly weakened by the time 1896 comes.
 
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1995 – 1996: Viktor Chernomyrdin (Our Home – Russia)
1996 – 2003: Anatoly Sobchak (Our Home – Russia)
1996: Gennady Zyuganov (Communist), Aleksandr Lebed (CRC), Grigory Yavlinsky (Yabloko), Vladimir Zhirinovsky (LDPR)
2000: Gennady Zyuganov (Communist), Yury Luzhkov (Fatherland), Grigory Yavlinsky (Yabloko), Vladimir Zhirinovsky (LDPR)
• 2003 died of coronary heart disease
2003 – 2004: Mikhail Kasyanov (nonpartisan)
2004 – 2006: Gennady Seleznyov (Communist)
2004: Aleksandr Rutskoi (Derzhava), Alexei Lebed (Fatherland), Sergei Shoigu (The Bear), Ilya Zaslavsky (Democratic Choice)
• 2006 died in car crash
2006 – : Yury Skuratov (Communist)

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Путин; [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ ˈputʲɪn]; 7 October 1952 – 22 February 2009) was a Russian politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1998 to 2003.

Putin worked as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel before resigning in 1991; he subsequently joined then-mayor of Leningrad Anatoly Sobchak's administration, following him to Moscow following the 1996 presidential election. Under President Socbhak, Putin briefly served as Deputy Chief of Staff and then as director of the Federal Security Service before being appointed Prime Minister in June 1998. As Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin oversaw increases in macroeconomic and political stability and played a central role in the conduct of the Second Chechen War and the reestablishment of federal control over the region, and the 1999–2003 dispute over gas prices with Ukraine.

Domestically, Putin was perceived by many as Anatoly Sobchak's grey cardinal and potential successor, referred to by many Western and Russian journalists as well as former Deputy Chief of Staff Vladislav Surkov as a leader of the so-called "conservative current" of the Sobchak administration, a tough manager who sought to establish more equal cooperation with NATO[citation needed]. During much of his tenure Vladimir Putin has been embroiled in a number of corruption scandals, many stemming from his early years in the St. Petersburg city administration. He resigned as Prime Minister in February 2003 due to protests pertaining to Concordgate and the Putin government's response to the Moscow theater hostage crisis, largely deemed to have led to unnecessary casualties, shortly before Sobchak's death from heart disease.

After his resignation, Vladimir Putin became a critic of Gennady Seleznyov and Yury Skuratov, notably publishing materials regarding the latter's sex scandal and allegations of a close financial relationship with the family of Boris Yeltsin. In October 2007 Putin was found guilty of fraud and money embezzlement and sentenced to 9 years in prison, but was acquitted of the charge of involvement in the death of President Gennady Seleznyov in a separate trial; the high-profile nature of the trials and the confirmation of the involvement of a former Baltik-Eskort security guard has led to the emergence of wide-ranging conspiracy theories pertaining to Vladimir Putin and the FSB as a whole.

Vladimir Putin died of vertebral osteomyelitis on 22 February 2009.
 
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Meppo said:
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I’ve never considered Putin’s possibilities a world where Sobchak is President, I forgot how close those two initially were. I could also see Putin becoming a corrupt mayor of St Petersburg or slipping into other bland security positions before getting bumped off.

Also Yury Skuratov is a fun figure to appear and someone who works very well as a figurehead for a more moderate RFCP figure (I know he joined the Communists in otl but he’s a fun person to have follow Seleznyov)
 
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I’ve never considered Putin’s possibilities a world where Sobchak is President, I forgot how close those two initially were. I could also see Putin becoming a corrupt mayor of St Petersburg or slipping into other bland security positions before getting bumped off.
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While he was in charge of the St. Petersburg regional chapter of Our Home – Russia from 1995 to 1997 and managed Sobchak's re-election HQ IOTL, he didn't really give a shit (if Vladimir Yakovlev and fellow campaign staffer Dmitry Zapolsky are to be believed). I could see Putin succeeding Sobchak as mayor, I mean it's not like Russia hasn't seen some dull and/or odious governors elected in the past, but him slipping into bland security/admin management positions is in my opinion far less likely to get him in prison for weird export schemes.

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Also Yury Skuratov is a fun figure to appear and someone who works very well as a figurehead for a more moderate RFCP figure (I know he joined the Communists in otl but he’s a fun person to have follow Seleznyov)
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Frankly as you can probably tell I was not sure whether to have Skuratov follow Seleznyov or Muravlenko follow Skuratov, but I ultimately settled on the latter given his past OTL ties to Yeltsin and Sverdlovsk politics (that he'd never get the chance to fully rebuff ITTL). Other than that yeah, Seleznyov and Skuratov are both rather interesting characters who could theoretically give way to a more moderate yet expressly competitive CPRF.
 
Meppo said:
I could see Putin succeeding Sobchak as mayor, I mean it's not like Russia hasn't seen some dull and/or odious governors elected in the past, but him slipping into bland security/admin management positions is in my opinion far less likely to get him in prison for weird export schemes.
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That makes sense, Putin becoming a dull and sinister grey eminence for the security services works just as well as him becoming President. It was amusing reading that Yakovlev article and it kind of indicates that Putin was sort of beginning his estrangement from Sobchak. Also Yakovlev is one of those many figures in late 90s Russia who certainly had the potential to try and gain a national audience but didn’t due to events.

Meppo said:
Frankly as you can probably tell I was not sure whether to have Skuratov follow Seleznyov or Muravlenko follow Skuratov, but I ultimately settled on the latter given his past OTL ties to Yeltsin and Sverdlovsk politics (that he'd never get the chance to fully rebuff ITTL).
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That’s interesting, Muravlenko is almost the perfect ‘Red Businessman’ kind of dodgy, connected to the reformers, abruptly joins Communists and seems to be very vague on why he thinks Communism is good. He even has the bushy moustache like Pavel Grudinin who given his attempts to run for President in otl as a Communist but his previous different connections would be a fun Alt-Russian President.
Meppo said:
Other than that yeah, Seleznyov and Skuratov are both rather interesting characters who could theoretically give way to a more moderate yet expressly competitive CPRF.
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Indeed, they seem to be the kind of figures who would have seemed more at ease in a scenario where the simmering ‘EuroCommunist’ current actually managed to succeed. I have used Seleznyov several times and I do wonder how he would be as President, I suspect that he would probably be a very cautious President who avoids trying to rock the boat, maybe even less so than Putin in the 00s it depends on his political base and all. I could see Seleznyov overseeing some limited nationalisation programs but primarily allowing oligarchs connected to the Communists the chance to feed.
 
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