Russia limits foreign election monitors
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Russia has invited only 400 international monitors to observe the presidential election in March, the country's election chief said Monday Â half the number that participated four years ago.
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Russia's election authorities barred  Kremlin opponent Mikhail Kasyanov on Sunday from taking part in  a March election to find a successor to President Vladimir  Putin.
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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.
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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 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, Dec. 5 -- British detectives visiting Russia to investigate the poisoning death of a former Russian intelligence officer in London will face broad restrictions in their work here, a senior Russian official said Tuesday.
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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 wants "unprecedented" curbs on observers at parliament elections, the OSCE watchdog says.
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Russians voted Sunday in scattered regional ballots marred by complaints that opposition forces are being frozen out of the country's politics.
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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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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 ...
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The head of Russia's natural resources ministry announced that foreign companies will be barred from bidding in large mineral deposit auctions in 2005, a ministry spokesman said.
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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 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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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 has begun an effort to curtail the activities of election observers in the states of the former Soviet Union.