Russia's bid for 'competitive' elections
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Ahead of March polls, a new Kremlin-backed party aims to woo left-wing voters away from independent parties.
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Russian businesses are reportedly likely to get better access if Viktor Yushchenko wins the Ukrainian presidential election. Russian President Vladimir Putin openly favors
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BBC Moscow correspondent Richard Galpin profiles the four candidates vying to succeed President Vladimir Putin.
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Russia's president installs a trusted ally, rather than one of the top contenders for the presidency, in the crucial post of prime minister. But does that really make him Putin's successor?
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Russia's most vocal opposition alliance said Thursday it would seek to field hundreds of candidates in December parliamentary elections, setting ambitious goals in the face of government pressure.
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The choice in Sunday's presidential election: move closer to Europe or Russia?
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MOSCOW, Sep 11 (IPS) - A presidential decree allowing political parties to  engage officially in public campaigns for parliamentary elections  has come into effect, but opposition parties fear they may not  get adequate access to media coverage.
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Russia holds regional polls on Sunday, viewed as dress rehearsals for this year's parliamentary vote and a 2008 presidential election, with a liberal party sidelined and the Kremlin expected to tighten its grip on power.
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President Vladimir Putin's chosen  successor, Dmitry Medvedev, has a commanding lead ahead of  Russia's presidential election with 63 percent support, an  opinion poll showed on Wednesday.
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MOSCOW  - President Vladimir Putin sought to convince the nation Thursday that his electoral reform was not a retreat from democracy but was needed to save Russia from international terrorists and to limit the political influence of business barons. Putin said in a nationwide television interview his plan to end direct elections of regional governors and parliament deputies will help strengthen the government, which he said was being eroded by ethnic divisions and turf battles between local clans.
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MOSCOW, Dec 6 (IPS) - Notwithstanding accusations of vote manipulation  and intimidation of opposition groups, the Dec. 2 vote for the  state Duma has changed the political scenario in Russia: the  Kremlin-backed United Russia has parliamentary majority, both the  Communist and Liberal parties have strengthened their positions,  and the Social Democrats -- A Just Russia -- enter the Duma for  the first time.
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A self-styled tsar, four empresses and  scores of other eccentrics have sought to register for Russian  presidential elections in March, the country's elections chief  said on Monday.
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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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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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As Russia prepares for March 2 presidential elections, it enters an era of political uncertainty it hasn't seen since President Vladimir Putin succeeded Boris Yeltsin eight years ago.
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Campaigning officially  started on Saturday in the Russian presidential election, but  Vladimir Putin's chosen successor has said he is too busy  working to canvass for votes.
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MOSCOW Russia&#39;s lower house of Parliament took its first step on Friday toward adopting President Vladimir Putin&#39;s sweeping overhaul of the country&#39;s political system, despite signs of popular dissent, particularly in regions distant from the capital.