Russia Working to Limit Election Observers
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Russia has begun an effort to curtail the activities of election observers in the states of the former Soviet Union.
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About 60 mainly European election observers have taken up their posts in six states, including Florida and Ohio, saying they hope their presence will serve as a &quot;preventative to the shenanigans&quot; during voting tomorrow.
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MOSCOW Police in Chechnya have orders to shoot anyone wearing a mask on sight ahead of Sunday&#39;s presidential election. Thousands of Russian soldiers and Chechen police are on 24-hour patrol ahead of the vote
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Serbia's electoral commission has barred observers from the United States and Britain from monitoring its presidential election this month.
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The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Thursday cancelled its observer missions to Russia's March 2 presidential election because of restrictions imposed by Moscow.
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Russia on Tuesday offered to ease  restrictions imposed on Europe's main election watchdog by  giving its monitors a week longer to observe the March 2  presidential poll, Russian news agencies said.
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Russia's election authorities barred  Kremlin opponent Mikhail Kasyanov on Sunday from taking part in  a March election to find a successor to President Vladimir  Putin.
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Russia's Foreign Ministry on Friday said Europe's main election watchdog was seeking to sabotage plans for monitoring the March 2 presidential election.
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Russia on Tuesday offered to ease restrictions imposed on Europe's main election watchdog by giving its monitors a week longer to observe the March 2 presidential poll, Russian news agencies said.
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Kremlin critic Mikhail Kasyanov should be barred from Russia's presidential election, officials said on Thursday, a move likely to fuel criticism that authorities brook little real opposition.
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Elections, at home and abroad, are topping Russia s political agenda lately. While President Vladimir Putin is phasing out elections for governor and redesigning elections to parliament, Russia s political ...
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Russia said on Friday the Council of Europe would send observers to monitor a March presidential election that Europe's main vote watchdog has already declined to attend, accusing Moscow of unreasonable restrictions.
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Russia on Wednesday expressed regret that Europe's main election watchdog turned down concessions in a dispute with Moscow over the monitoring of next month's presidential vote, Itar-Tass news agency reported.
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Russia has invited only 400 international monitors to observe the key presidential election in March, the country's election chief said Monday Â half the number that participated four years ago.
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Russia and the EU were today embroiled in another major row after the Organisation for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) said that it would not monitor next month's presidential elections in Russia because of "severe restrictions" placed on it by Moscow.
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Europe's leading election monitoring agency, known for keeping tabs on voting in trouble spots such as Belarus and the Balkans, is gearing up for a super-sized challenge: observing the U.S. presidential election.
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The only liberal Kremlin critic in Russia's presidential race stands to be kept off the ballot because tens of thousands of signatures on his nominating petitions were forgeries, election officials said Thursday.