The Russian Communist party (KPRF) called Sunday’s parliamentary election illegitimate and pledged to challenge its results in courts, the party said on its official website on Saturday. “KPRF states that the passed State Duma elections were unfair and non-free. We consider them illegitimate from a moral and political point of view,” the statement, signed by [...]
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December 11, 2011
December 8, 2011
December 8, 2011
Russia: New Book Explores Consequences Of Hiding From History
Dusty and streaked with dirt, an enormous bust of Vladimir Lenin, finished only from the nose up, sits in a desolate courtyard. Its eyes seem to have risen from the ground itself, peering at all who pass by. Taken in 1992, just months after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this is the photograph that [...]
December 7, 2011
Election Observer In Tatarstan Reports Vote Rigging
KAZAN, Russia — An election observer in the Russian republic of Tatarstan says she witnessed several cases of vote rigging at a local polling station in the State Duma elections on December 4, RFE/RL’s Tatar-Bashkir Service reports. Golnaz Badretdin, who represents the opposition Other Russia party, monitored elections in polling station No. 341 in the [...]
December 5, 2011
United Russia clears 50-percent mark in parliamentary elections
With over 62 percent of the ballots counted, Russia’s ruling United Russia party is gaining 50.13 percent, and its closest rival, the Communist Party (KPRF) 19.49 percent. A Just Russia is gaining 12.86 percent, and Liberal Democrats (LDPR) 11.93 percent. President Dmitry Medvedev congratulated the leaders of other parties on getting seats in the State [...]
December 5, 2011
Yabloko party to contest State Duma election results
Grigory Yavlinsky, the leader of the Yabloko opposition party’s electoral list, said his party will contest the results of Sunday’s parliamentary elections that saw the ruling United Russia party balancing on the verge of the 50-percent mark. Yabloko chairman Sergei Mitrokhin told journalists the party disagreed with the preliminary results, which gave Yabloko a mere [...]
December 5, 2011
Party leaders outline immediate plans as polling stations close
Leaders of Russia’s political parties have said they will investigate alleged violations at the parliamentary polls and have dismissed the suggestion of a possible broad coalition to oppose the weakened United Russia. The leaders of United Russia said they were satisfied with the election results, even though preliminary data showed that support for the ruling [...]
December 1, 2011
Historama, December 1
Art meets politics and politics meets religion in tonight’s Historama. Abstractionism fails to impress Soviet leader Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had his first exposure to abstract art on this day in 1962. Read more about Khrushchev on Historama Khrushchev was not sure whether it was good or bad but a group of pro-Communist artists convinced [...]
November 30, 2011
Obituary: Stalin’s Daughter Struggled In The Shadow Of Her Father
The only daughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin — who denounced communism after defecting to the United States in the 1960s — has died in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Authorities there said Lana Peters, better known as Svetlana Alliluyeva, died of colon cancer on November 22, at the age of 85. Born Svetlana Stalina, [...]
November 29, 2011
In Russia the Communist Party Seems to be Growing Again…
May Day Rally Communist… State Duma elections (the parliament’s lower house), take place on December 4, 2011 and the Russian presidential election will take place on March 4, 2012… From what I hear and see on the street. The communist party may just have the best showing in may years, this time. They are predicting [...]
November 29, 2011
Stalin’s Daughter Dies In U.S.
The only daughter of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin has died in the United States. Officials in the state of Wisconsin said Lana Peters died of colon cancer on November 22, at the age of 85. Born Svetlana Stalina, she defected to the United States in 1967, during the Cold War, and denounced her father and [...]
November 19, 2011
Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan Agree On Economic Union
Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan have agreed to create a body regulating their trade and economies that could eventually become a Eurasian economic union. The presidents of the three former Soviet republics — which already have a customs union — signed a declaration in the Kremlin targeting a full “Eurasian economic union” by 2015. Russia’s Dmitry [...]
November 5, 2011
Russian Nationalists March In Moscow
Several thousand nationalists are marching in Moscow to call for ethnic Russians to “take back” Russia. RFE/RL correspondents say more that than 10,000 have been participating in the march. The event’s organizers claim that the turnout is around 25,000 people, although the city police department put this figure at 7,000. According to RFE/RL’s reporters, the [...]
November 1, 2011
Chinese spacecraft blasts off (VIDEO)
China is a step closer to becoming a major space power with the launch of its unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou 8. The craft is expected to dock with another vehicle, launched last month, in an unprecedented operation for the communist state. The spacecraft took off from a base in the far western city of Jiuquan. Minutes [...]