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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Hundreds of observers will monitor next week's election to ensure there is no discrimination.
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Russian State Duma deputy Konstantin Zatulin, who is a member of CIS mission of observers at the Ukrainian presidential elections, notes an increased participation of Crimean residents in the voting.
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MOSCOW, Feb. 7 -- Russia's relations with international bodies that monitor democratic norms and human rights soured further Thursday when Europe's leading election watchdog organization confirmed that it would not monitor the upcoming presidential vote, citing "severe restrictions" on its planned...
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President Vladimir Putin told Russia's  state security service on Wednesday to raise its guard against  outside attempts to meddle in a March election which is  expected to bring to power his hand-picked successor.
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Canada said on Friday it would send a large number of observers to monitor the rerun of Ukraine's disputed presidential election run-off, which looks set to be held later this month.
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KIEV, Ukraine -- More than 12,000 observers are moving into place as voting is about to begin Sunday in Ukraine&#39;s controversial repeat of the presidential runoff between Viktor Yanukovych and Viktor Yushchenko.
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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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The pan-European security body wants to send more monitors for the re-run of the Ukrainian election.
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WINNIPEG - The Ukrainian Canadian Congress has asked the federal government to help send as many as 1,500 observers to monitor the Dec. 26 election in Ukraine.
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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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With regional elections Sunday from St. Petersburg to Siberia, Russians are entering what promises to be a year of ballots choreographed to ensure a smooth succession and enable President Vladimir Putin to keep a hand on the steering wheel even after he steps down.
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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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Sunday's vote comes as Russia continues its probe into the dual jet bombings.
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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 brought the rival candidates' supporters into the streets.
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Canada will send up to 500 observers to oversee the Dec. 26 presidential election run-off in Ukraine, the largest number of monitors Ottawa has ever sent abroad, Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew said on Monday.
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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday he regretted the way Europe's main election watchdog had behaved in a dispute over monitoring a March 2 presidential vote.