President Dmitry Medvedev disagreed Sunday with the demands of the tens of thousands of Russians who took to the streets the day before in protest over the results and alleged fraud at the Dec. 4 legislative elections. “People have a right to express their position as they did yesterday. I disagree with slogans and claims [...]
Tag: central electoral commission
December 11, 2011
December 9, 2011
United Russia retains parliamentary majority
Russia’s governing party, United Russia, will have 238 seats in the new State Duma following Sunday’s parliamentary elections, Central Electoral Commission deputy head Leonid Ivlev said on Friday. The result means Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s party has lost 77 seats, but just retains a parliamentary majority. United Russia enjoyed a two-thirds majority in the previous [...]
December 9, 2011
Main news of December 9
WORLD Croatia will join the European Union on July 1, 2013 under a treaty it signed in Brussels on Friday with the 27 current EU members Vladislav Kovalyov, one of the two men sentenced to death in Belarus for bombing a metro station in the capital, Minsk, has appealed to President Alexander Lukashenko for clemency [...]
November 13, 2011
South Ossetia elects president in first poll since war
People in the Republic of South Ossetia in the North Caucasus are going to the polls to elect a new president. The new leader will not have an easy job as the republic is still recovering from its devastating war with Georgia three years ago. The republic has opened 84 polling stations, with two more [...]
October 3, 2011
United Russia denies electoral abuses
Russia’s ruling United Russia party denied on Monday accusations of violating electoral laws in the ongoing parliamentary election campaign. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev heads the party’s 600 candidate list that has been formally presented to the Central Electoral Commission ahead of the December 4 parliamentary poll. Several members of the Kremlin staff have been reportedly [...]