Vladimir Putin holds his annual QA session with Russian voters, following steet protests over his rule and alleged election fraud. The Russian prime minister rebutted claims that fraud helped his ruling United Russia party win a parliamentary election, saying the result reflected the views of the population
Tag: Election
December 16, 2011
December 16, 2011
Brussels Raises Election Concerns At Russia Summit
BRUSSELS — The European Union used a summit with Russia today to highlight concerns over claims of massive fraud during this month’s Russian parliamentary elections. Russia’s December 4 State Duma elections and their aftermath — including the detention of demonstrators — were not officially on the agenda of the summit, which otherwise focused on economic [...]
December 14, 2011
Meet Mikhail Prokhorov
The surprise candidate in the 2012 Russian presidential election is a billionaire businessman and, judging by these images, every bit as keen on sport as his rival Vladimir Putin – from skiing to basketball
December 12, 2011
EU Plans To Raise Election Issue At Upcoming Russia Summit
EU officials plan to raise the issue of Russia’s recent parliamentary elections, which the opposition claims were rigged, in talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev this week. Maja Kocijancic, spokeswoman for EU foreign-policy chief Catherine Ashton, said she expected the issue would be raised at the EU-Russia summit due to take place on December 14-15 [...]
December 12, 2011
Chief Prosecutor sees no reason for election re-run
Russia’s Prosecutor General has said he sees no reason to cancel the results of the December 4 parliamentary poll, but has promised to hold an investigation into all reported violations. “I think there are no grounds for setting a new election date or recounting the votes after the results of the voting,” Yuri Chaika told [...]
December 11, 2011
Vote protest a ‘watershed’ Russian leaders cannot ignore: analysts
Opposition rallies against recent elections that culminated in a massive demonstration in Moscow this weekend are a major “watershed” in Russia’s post-Soviet social and political development that the country’s leadership must reckon with, analysts said. The rally in Moscow on Saturday, attended by tens of thousands of relatively young, well-dressed, educated “mainstream” people rather than [...]
December 11, 2011
Poll protests continue in Russian regions
Authorized and unauthorized protests against alleged electional fraud continued in several Russian cities on Sunday, RIA Novosti correspondents reported. The largest sanctioned rally was held in Perm, a city in the Urals, which gathered some 800 people instead of 300 permitted by the police. Two people were detained. The demonstrators signed a resolution demanding the [...]
December 11, 2011
Russian poll protests: calm after the storm
Russia has seen a week of post-election frenzy with protests over allegations of fraud in last Sunday’s poll hitting the streets. On Saturday, the biggest opposition rally in Russia’s recent history passed off peacefully, despite ominous predictions. According to police estimates, some 25,000 protesters gathered in Moscow alone, while opposition’s estimates differ greatly – from 40,000 [...]
December 11, 2011
Russians Out In Force Against ‘Election Fraud,’ More Rallies Threatened
MOSCOW – The Russian opposition has called on the authorities to annul election results marred by alleged violations and threatened more anti-Kremlin rallies as tens of thousands demonstrated across the country. Officially, police estimates put the crowd on Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square on December 10 at 20,000, although organizers cited much higher figures of up to [...]
December 11, 2011
Russian election protests in Moscow
Thousands take to the streets of the Russian capital to protest against the highly disputed parliamentary elections and Vladimir Putin’s attempt to become president once more
December 11, 2011
Moscow Students Told To Stay In School During Saturday Protest Rally
Russian media reports say that Moscow city authorities are trying to make high-school students attend school on the afternoon of Saturday, December 10, in an apparent bid to prevent them from joining a mass demonstration against the official results of parliamentary elections on December 4. The reports said all high-school students, from 9th to 11th [...]
December 11, 2011
Top Russian Health Inspector: Demonstrators Will Catch The Flu
The Kremlin spin machine was firing on all cylinders on December 9 as top state doctor Gennady Onishchenko warned that protesters set to rally across dozens of Russian towns on December 10 should stay at home – or else risk catching the flu. It was unclear whether Onishchenko’s advice had struck a chord with the [...]
December 11, 2011
Armenian Election Observer Slams Russian Elections
YEREVAN — An Armenian opposition deputy has called Russia’s controversial parliamentary elections “undemocratic” and criticized Armenia’s government for welcoming the results, RFE/RL’s Armenian Service reports. Zaruhi Postanjian of the opposition Heritage party monitored the elections on December 4 along with other international observers from the Council of Europe. Postanjian said she visited two dozen polling [...]
December 11, 2011
Russians Come Out In Force Against ‘Election Fraud,’ More Mass Rallies Threatened
MOSCOW – The Russian opposition on December 10 called on the authorities to annul election results marred by alleged violations and threatened more anti-Kremlin rallies as tens of thousands demonstrated across the country. Officially, police estimates put the crowd on Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square at 20,000, although organizers cited much higher figures of up to 100,000. [...]