The Russian billionaire who this week announced his challenge to Vladimir Putin for Russia’s upcoming presidential election says his first move, if elected, would be to pardon jailed tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Mikhail Prokhorov, a metals magnate estimated to be worth some $18 billion, announced this week that he would seek the presidency in March. Khodorkovsky, [...]
Tag: Fraud
December 16, 2011
December 12, 2011
Putin’s party launches Facebook group ‘for fair elections’
A group entitled “United Russia for fair elections” has been launched on Facebook on the behalf of Russia’s largest political party amid a wave of protests against the alleged fraud in its favor in last week’s parliamentary polls. “We, United Russia members, call for fair elections!” a post on the group’s Facebook page reads. “We [...]
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
Nets’ Mikhail Prokhorov to run for Russian presidency
MOSCOW — After a week of surprising challenges to his authority, Vladimir Putin faces a new one from one of Russia’s richest and most glamorous figures — the billionaire owner of the New Jersey Nets says he will run against Putin in March’s presidential election. Mikhail Prokhorov’s announcement Monday came just hours after another Russian [...]
December 12, 2011
Russia’s Medvedev Rejects Demand For New Vote, Orders Inquiry Into Fraud Claims
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says he disagrees with demands made at nationwide protests for a rerun of parliamentary elections. But Medvedev said on his Facebook account on December 11 that he had nevertheless asked officials to look into reports of possible violations at polling stations during the December 4 vote. The ruling United Russia party [...]
December 11, 2011
Russian nationalists stage rally in downtown Moscow
Russian nationalist movements gathered on Sunday for an authorized rally in the center of Moscow. Most of the 250 nationalists who came to the rally on Bolotnaya Square – the site of a massive protest on Saturday against alleged electoral fraud at last week’s parliamentary polls – were young people with scarves and medical masks [...]
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
Medvedev dismissed most Saturday protesters’ demands
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 [...]
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
Several dozen Russians rally in Toronto in Russia electoral fraud protest
Several dozen Russians gathered near the Russian consulate in Toronto on Saturday to protest the recent parliamentary elections, in which Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party won a tight race amid allegations of widespread vote fraud, the Toronto Star reported on Sunday. About 75 people gathered at the corner of Bloor St. E. and Church St. [...]
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
Poll protests in eastern Russia
Hundreds of people have gathered in different cities across Russia on Saturday to protest against alleged electoral fraud in favor of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party, RIA Novosti correspondents reported from the scene. Some 1,000 people rallied in the southern Siberian city of Barnaul, about 200 at the central square in Chita and [...]
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. [...]
December 9, 2011
Main news of December 8
RUSSIA Election protests: * Protests against alleged electoral fraud in favor of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party continued for a third night on Wednesday, with arrests in both Moscow and St. Petersburg, police said *Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said; - police would crack down on illegal demonstrations – accused the U.S. [...]