Russia slams OSCE over election monitors
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Russia's Foreign Ministry accused Europe's main security organization Friday of playing political games in the dispute over election monitors.
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Russian and Western leaders are sharply at odds over the country's election crisis.
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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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SOFIA, December 7 (Itar-Tass) - Russia proposes âworking out uniform standards for the assessment of all elections in the OSCE member countries,â Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday in the response to a question from
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Europe's main security and human  rights watchdog said on Thursday it had cancelled plans to  monitor Russia's presidential election next month, citing  unacceptable restrictions imposed by Moscow.
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The State Department said Monday the presidential election in Chechnya was seriously flawed and did not meet international standards.
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European election observers cited severe restrictions imposed on their work by the Russian government.
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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.
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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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Ukraine has reprimanded Canada's ambassador for questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election campaign, the Moscow Times said Thursday.
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MOSCOW, Oct. 23 -- With parliamentary elections just weeks away, Russia has still not extended an invitation to Europe's principal election watchdog to monitor the vote. Opposition activists and Western diplomats charge that the authorities here are deliberately stalling to limit the work of an...
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Russia are to lodge a forceful protest  with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) over what they  say was biased judging throughout the Athens gymnastics  competition, the team spokesman said Tuesday.
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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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MOSCOW, Feb 7 (Reuters ) - Europe's main security and human rights watchdog said on Thursday it had cancelled plans to monitor Russia's presidential election next month, citing unacceptable restrictions imposed by Moscow.
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Europe's election watchdog says Russia's curbs make it impossible for the body to monitor presidential polls.
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Russian authorities expelled a Moldovan  journalist critical of the Kremlin on Sunday in a move  condemned by media watchdogs.
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A top election watchdog rejects Russian concessions for monitoring of the presidential election.