Russia regrets vote watchdog rebuffed offer: report
76563
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.
138739
The Russian government on Sunday denied an opposition leaderâs application to appear on the March 2 presidential ballot, clearing a path for the Kremlinâs favorite candidate to run all but unchallenged.
727191
The head of Russia&#39;s financial watchdog insisted Thursday that the privatizations of the 1990s would not be revisited, a week after releasing a critical report on the deals between 1993 and 2003.
306910
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he was sceptical about demands by the Ukrainian opposition to repeat a run-off vote after a contested presidential election.
551145
The United States on Thursday criticized Russian proposals that would curtail the activities of international election monitors.
629664
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.
631381
Western nations softened a draft resolution to back U.N. plans for a future Kosovo state, but Russia dismissed the move on Thursday and renewed its threat of a veto unless there were radical changes.
678674
Russia immediately rejected a revised U.N. resolution introduced Wednesday that would delay internationally supervised independence for Kosovo to give the province's majority ethnic Albanians and minority Serbs more time to agree on its future status.
407217
Russia says the proposal to switch the system on if an Iranian threat is proved are positive but fall short.
546542
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.
492750
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...
98187
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.
271172
Russia will limit foreign election monitors at its March presidential poll to 400, half the observers in 2004.
502854
Russians voted Sunday in scattered regional ballots marred by complaints that opposition forces are being frozen out of the country's politics.
347845
Serbia's election commission has  turned down a request by the British and United States  embassies to allow some of their staff to monitor the  presidential election next weekend, officials said on Friday.
638371
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.
285983
Serbia's election commission has turned down a request by the British and U.S. embassies to let some of their staff monitor the presidential election next weekend, officials said on Friday.