Medvedev Tells Duma to Cut Threshold to 5%

President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday submitted a bill to the State Duma that would return the threshold to win Duma seats to 5 percent from the current 7 percent, the Kremlin said. Medvedev suggested in an interview published Friday that the threshold could be lowered further. “All political forces that have significant popular support should be represented in the parliament,” Medvedev told Moskovskiye Novosti. “It does […]