Fraud and pressure marred Russian election: monitors
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Corruption, official pressure on voters  and Soviet-era turnout figures were features of Russia's  parliamentary election, won by President Vladimir Putin's party  in a landslide, independent monitors said on Tuesday.
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Prosecutors announced a forgery investigation Tuesday against the campaign of the only liberal Kremlin critic still in Russia's presidential race, a contest already expected to be won easily by Vladimir Putin's hand-picked candidate to succeed him.
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Ukrainian authorities vowed on Friday to uphold public order during a crucial presidential election rerun this weekend, but tensions mounted as the vote drew near, prompting an assurance from Russia that it would not use underhanded tactics to affect the
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The Kremlinâs favoured candidate for president of war-battered Chechnya overwhelmingly won an election that opponents claimed was riddled with fraud, Russian news agencies reported today.
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Russians voted Sunday in regional ballots marred by complaints that Kremlin opponents are increasingly sidelined ahead of national parliamentary elections in December and a vote to replace President Vladimir Putin next year.
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Russian papers suggest reasons why Alexander Veshnyakov has been removed as head of the Central Electoral Commission .
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As thousands of election monitors arrive for Sunday's vote, critics complain of Western interference.
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An increasingly bitter dispute between  Moscow and the West over democracy overshadowed the official  start on Saturday of the campaign for Russia's March 2  presidential election.
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Russia's Foreign Ministry accused  Europe's main election watchdog on Friday of seeking to  sabotage plans for monitoring the March 2 presidential  election, which President Vladimir Putin's chosen candidate is  expected to win.
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The United States and Russia clashed at a European security forum Tuesday over the election monitoring that exposed fraud in Ukraine's election last month, elevating an increasingly tense debate over democracy in former Soviet republics.
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Russian opposition challenger Mikhail Kasyanov should be disqualified from a March 2 presidential vote because of forged registration documents, the secretary of the Central Election Commission said on Thursday.
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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that Russia was concerned by the West's attempts to influence the situation in Ukraine, where allegations of vote fraud have sparked a political crisis that has ...
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Critics say preliminary results from their ballot inspections show signs of widespread irregularities.
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A bitter campaign marked by predictions of vote fraud culminates in an election that all Western observers call seriously flawed.
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Ukraine faced political turmoil on Monday  as partial results in a presidential election put the prime  minister backed by Russia in the lead, while his liberal  challenger alleged cheating and called for street protests.
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Russia's Foreign Ministry accused Europe's main election watchdog on Friday of seeking to sabotage plans for monitoring the March 2 presidential election, which President Vladimir Putin's chosen candidate is expected to win.
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Europe's main election watchdog cancelled plans on Thursday to monitor Russia's presidential election next month, citing unacceptable restrictions imposed by Moscow.