WASHINGTON — A U.S. State Department official says recent mass protests in Russia could represent a “nationwide awakening” among Russians who want more accountability from their government. Protesters across Russia have staged a series of demonstrations accusing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his ruling United Russia party of rigging votes in the party’s favor during [...]
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December 16, 2011
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December 12, 2011
‘Prokhorov seeks to articulate the democratic mood’
Mikhail Prokhorov’s decision to run in next year’s presidential election may signal a new era of political pluralism in Russia. And while the billionaire’s shot at victory is uncertain, experts say the Russian electorate will win out come March When billionaire entrepreneur and New Jersey Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov was elected to head the Right [...]
December 12, 2011
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
For Russia, this is the end of an era | Jonathan Steele
Russia and its power-hungry leader Vladimir Putin are still reeling. The results of last week’s parliamentary elections were a surprise, not just because of his party’s low level of popularity but because they were allowed to happen. In a totally controlled system his United Russia party would have won easily. But Putin has erected a [...]
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
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
Communists slam Duma vote
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 [...]
December 11, 2011
December 11, 2011
Tens of thousands of Russians join nationwide vote protest
Tens of thousands of Russians turned out in cities across the country on Saturday in mass peaceful protest over recent elections they claim were rigged in favor of Vladimir Putin’s governing United Russia party, authorities said. The demonstrations, which began on Russia’s Pacific Ocean coast and moved westwards over eight time zones, were an unprecedented [...]
December 11, 2011
Russian regions say vote protests largely peaceful
Authorized and unauthorized protests in dozens of Russian cities, in which at least 60,000 people across the country are estimated to take part, were largely peaceful. “According to the Interior Ministry’s emergency response center, unauthorized protests were held in a number of Russian regions. During most of them, protestors left the area after warnings by [...]
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
Russia braces for biggest protests of Putin era
Public anger over alleged electoral fraud in favor of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s party is expected to bring thousands out onto the streets of Russia on Saturday in the largest demonstrations here for almost two decades. Protest rallies – both sanctioned and unsanctioned by the authorities – are planned for some one hundred Russian cities [...]