Russia offers to ease curbs on election monitors
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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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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 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 on Wednesday proposed working on  a new pact on limiting military forces in Europe, a top defense  ministry official was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying.
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Russia on Thursday proposed a U.N. crackdown on the abuse of political asylum for terrorist purposes, raising pressure on Western states to hand over wanted Chechen activists.
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MOSCOW - After sharply cutting the number of of Western observers permitted to view polling places and drawing criticism from the United States, the Kremlin warned foreigners yesterday not to interfere in Russia's parliamentary elections.
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Russia's parliament backed on Friday President Vladimir Putin's plan to scrap elections for governors under sweeping political reforms aimed at strengthening his grip on power.
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Russia said Saturday it will suspend participation in a key European arms control treaty, halting NATO inspections of its military sites and no longer limiting the numbers of its tanks and other heavy conventional weapons.
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Russia on Wednesday proposed working on a new pact on limiting military forces in Europe, a top defense ministry official was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying.
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The risk of dogs and children being given votes could be cut by changing how people register to vote, says a watchdog.
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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 Thursday proposed a  U.N. crackdown on the abuse of political asylum for terrorist  purposes, raising pressure on Western states to hand over  wanted Chechen activists.
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Moscow city authorities plan to reduce the number of migrants working in the Russian capital.
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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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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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Russia's domestic security service said  on Friday it had foiled several attempts by foreign spies to  obtain technology for weapons of mass destruction, RIA news  agency reported.
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Russia's parliament on Wednesday gave a first nod to new tougher rules for setting up political parties -- a key element of President Vladimir Putin's reforms, which could dramatically change the political system.