- 11:22 15/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 15 (RIA Novosti)
The head of Russia's election commission said that so far no proof has been found that voters were bused around to various polling stations to repeatedly vote for the ruling United Russia party in December elections.
- 15:00 27/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 27 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's Federal Migration Service and Central Election Commission are to set up a special group to monitor the situation in Dagestan and St Petersburg after a high level of irregularities were found in voter registration lists there, Election Committee head Vladimir Churov said on Friday.
- 17:43 25/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 25 (RIA Novosti)
A State Duma committee on Wednesday turned down a draft resolution on allegations of massive vote fraud in the December 4 parliamentary elections, that also included a call on Central Electoral Commission head Vladimir Churov to resign and the CEC’s dissolution.
- 17:28 25/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 25 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) said on Wednesday almost 90% of the 1,686 violation reports it received after the December 4 State Duma elections proved to be untrue.
- 11:29 24/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 24 (RIA Novosti)
The governors of the Russian regions of Murmansk and Tomsk, where the ruling United Russia party showed a poor performance during December’s parliamentary elections, are expected to be dismissed before the March presidential race, the Vedomosti business daily newspaper reported on Tuesday.
- 18:31 23/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 23 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's December parliamentary elections were “slanted in favor of United Russia,” a report by the election observers of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) said on Monday.
- 09:40 21/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 21 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow authorities dismissed on Friday a plan, proposed by critics of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, to hold a 50,000-strong march on February 4, RIA Novosti reported.
- 19:19 20/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 20 (RIA Novosti)
Chief of the PACE electoral mission Tiny Kox has pledged to include complaints voiced by the Liberal Democratic and Communist parties in his final report on Russia’s parliamentary polls.
- 16:20 20/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 20 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s ruling United Russia party could split into a number of factions in response to the "new realities" created by popular protests against alleged vote fraud in December 4 parliamentary elections.
- 17:50 19/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 19 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Central Election Commission head Vladimir Churov, the man at the eye of the storm raised by allegations of vote fraud in December 4 parliamentary elections, challenged the commission to discuss his dismissal on Thursday.
- 09:53 18/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 18 (RIA Novosti)
Russian prosecutors have charged nearly 100 people with administrative offences over voting fraud at last month’s parliamentary elections.
- 17:52 17/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 17 (RIA Novosti)
Russia will likely be asked to agree a roadmap to democratize political life at the winter plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg next week.
- 19:41 11/01/2012 VLADIMIR, January 11 (RIA Novosti)
A criminal case has been opened into ballot rigging in the Central Russian city of Vladimir where about 6,000 “dead souls” voted in the December 4 parliamentary elections, a regional investigations committee spokesman said on Wednesday.
- 22:42 05/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 5 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Interior Ministry’s experts, who examined video clips, appearing to expose ballot-stuffing at the December’s parliamentary elections, has found layouts what could mean the clips had been edited, the head of Russia’s Central Election Commission, Vladimir Churov said on Thursday.
- 13:29 24/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 24 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian presidential council on human rights has called the head of the Central Election Commission Vladimir Churov to resign, after considering complaints about alleged violations during the December 4 parliamentary elections.
- 12:14 23/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 23 (RIA Novosti)
Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev has called for a re-run of Russia’s disputed parliamentary elections, a day before a major rally in Moscow against alleged ballot rigging.
- 07:38 23/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 23 (RIA Novosti)
Almost 1.3 billion rubles ($40 million) will be doled out between five parties that got more than 3 percent in the December 4 parliamentary elections
- 02:38 17/12/2011 WASHINGTON, December 17 (RIA Novosti)
U.S. President Barack Obama welcomed on Friday his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev’s intention to investigate irregularities at the recent parliamentary elections in Russia, White House spokesman Jay Carney said.
- 13:11 16/12/2011 KRASNODAR, December 16 (RIA Novosti)
A probe has been launched in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar into allegations of ballot stuffing at a polling station during the December 4 parliamentary elections, investigators said on Friday.
- 19:49 15/12/2011 BRUSSELS, December 15 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday said a European Parliament resolution calling for new State Duma elections “means nothing.”
- 15:01 15/12/2011
Speaking during an annual televised Q&A session with the nation on Thursday, Putin said that the opposition has always complained of falsifications during elections and that the main goal of protesters rallying against alleged election fraud is the presidential polls scheduled for March 2012.
- 14:37 15/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 15 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office said international observers monitoring the December 4 elections in Russia committed no violations, the Central Election Commission (CEC) said on its website.
- 12:30 15/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 15 (RIA Novosti)
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday the opposition should turn to the courts with their allegations of vote fraud during the December 4 parliamentary polls.
- 10:16 15/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 15 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who led the United Russia party ticket in the December 4 parliamentary elections, has given up his mandate as deputy, presidential spokeswoman Natalya Timakova has said.
- 14:27 14/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 14 (RIA Novosti)
The speaker of Russia’s lower house of parliament, Boris Gryzlov, has said he is quitting his post.
- 23:54 13/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 13 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s December 4 parliamentary elections proved that the country needs political reform, ex-finance minister Alexei Kudrin said on Tuesday.
- 20:47 13/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 13 (RIA Novosti)
President Dmitry Medvedev called Tuesday for an easing of “accumulated restraints” in Russian political life, saying this was needed to avert serious divisions in society.
- 18:32 13/12/2011 GORKI (MOSCOW REGION), December 13 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev reiterated on Tuesday his pledge to carefully investigate all alleged violations in the December 4 parliamentary elections and take “fair decisions” based on probe results.
- 17:47 13/12/2011 GORKI (Moscow region), December 13 (RIA Novosti)
The new State Duma, the lower house of Russian parliament, will have its first meeting on December 21, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday.
- 16:47 13/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 13 (RIA Novosti)
The right-wing Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) has proposed eliminating the minimum vote percentage required to win seats in the State Duma, a Duma spokesman said on Tuesday.
- 18:17 12/12/2011
On December 4, Russians vote in parliamentary elections.
- 14:34 10/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 10 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian Communist party (KPRF) called Sunday’s parliamentary election illegitimate and pledged to challenge its results in courts, the party said on its official website on Saturday.
- 20:38 09/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 9 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s governing party, United Russia, will have 238 seats in the new State Duma following Sunday’s parliamentary elections, Central Electoral Commission deputy head Leonid Ivlev said on Friday.
- 14:31 09/12/2011 BEIJING, December 9 (RIA Novosti)
As protests against allegedly stolen votes are set to continue in Russia, China’s foreign ministry spokesman said Sunday’s parliamentary elections reflected the will of Russian people
- 14:09 09/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 9 (RIA Novosti)
The ruling United Russia party, which lost its super-majority during Sunday’s parliamentary elections, may lose control over half of the State Duma’s committees, the head of the Liberal Democrats (LDPR) faction in the State Duma, Igor Lebedev, said on Friday.
- 08:10 09/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 9 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) will carry out a probe into why over 500,000 people who had received absentee ballots never took part in the December 4 parliamentary elections, the Izvestiya daily reported on Friday citing CEC member Sergei Danilenko.
- 18:41 08/12/2011
The United Russia party won 49.3 percent of the vote in December 4 parliamentary elections, with 99.99 percent of the ballots counted. The Communist Party (KPRF) was in second place with 19.2 percent of the vote. A Just Russia was third with 13.25 percent, and the far-right Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) had 12 percent.
- 16:01 08/12/2011 PRAGUE, December 8 (RIA Novosti)
President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that all allegations of fraud during Sunday's parliamentary polls should be investigated.
- 16:32 07/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 7 (RIA Novosti)
An obscene re-tweet was posted briefly Wednesday on President Dmitry Medvedev’s official Twitter account, the Kremlin said, blaming the embarrassing incident on “interference” by an administration technical employee.
- 12:45 07/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 7 (RIA Novosti)
The ruble continued its slide on Wednesday against the world's major currencies amid foreign investors' increased fears of political instability in the country after Sunday's parliamentary election while Russian stocks showed mixed dynamics following Tuesday's slump.
- 12:37 07/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 7 (RIA Novosti)
An adviser to President Dmitry Medvedev on human rights issues has criticized Moscow police and the courts for their handling of opposition demonstrations in downtown Moscow earlier this week.
- 23:10 06/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 6 (Marc Bennetts for RIA Novosti)
Some 300 people were detained on Tuesday in Moscow during a second evening of protests over alleged mass electoral fraud in favor of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's United Russia party at this weekend's parliamentary polls
- 22:02 06/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti)
Two leaders of Monday’s protests in downtown Moscow against alleged election fraud, anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny and opposition activist Ilya Yashin, were given short jail terms on Tuesday for refusing to obey police orders, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
- 21:34 06/12/2011
Some 5,000 activists from pro-Kremlin and opposition youth movements gathered for an unsanctioned rally in downtown Moscow on Tuesday evening.
- 21:27 06/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday comments by senior White House officials about Russian parliamentary elections were “unacceptable.”
- 21:06 06/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti)
Complaints of irregularities in Russia’s recent legislative elections need to be investigated but videos purporting to show fraud are not incontestable proof of cheating, President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday.
- 20:38 06/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov compared U.S. senator John McCain to the March Hare from "Alice in Wonderland" on Tuesday, after McCaine predicted an "Arab Spring" for Russia.
- 19:07 06/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti)
Vladislav Surkov, a senior Kremlin official and one of Russia’s chief domestic politics masterminds, has backed the creation of a “popular liberal party” in Russia.
- 17:52 06/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti)
President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday that Russia’s political system is Russia’s own affair and not that of its foreign partners.
- 17:28 06/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti)
The ruling United Russia party has won 49.3 percent of the vote in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, Russia’s Central Election Commission said after counting 99.99 percent of the ballots.
- 17:10 06/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti)
President Dmitry Medvedev instructed the Central Election Commission to investigate alleged vote rigging on Tuesday.
- 15:55 06/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti)
Vladimir Putin, Russian Prime Minister and leader of the ruling United Russia party, said on Tuesday the decline in the party’s support, as shown in Sunday's elections, had been inevitable.
- 15:19 06/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called for an investigation into Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Russia amid reports of widespread vote fraud and election violations, in comments a senior Russian official described as "strange."
- 14:42 06/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti)
The United Russia party and its supporters rally in Moscow on Tuesday to celebrate victory in parliamentary polls, a day after hundreds were detained at the biggest opposition protest in the city for a decade.
- 14:21 06/12/2011
Preliminary data of the distribution of seats in the lower house of parliament
- 13:44 06/12/2011 TBILISI, December 6 (RIA Novosti)
Georgia’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday condemned Russia for setting up polling stations in its breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia for Russian parliamentary elections held on Sunday.
- 13:32 06/12/2011 RIA Novosti commentator Dmitry Babich
The United Russia party (UR) won 238 seats in the State Duma in Sunday's elections, an absolute majority in the 450-seat lower chamber of parliament and enough to single-handedly ensure passage of economic reforms. However, the party will have to form a coalition to muster the votes needed to amend the constitution.
- 12:09 06/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti)
Amnesty International called on the Russian authorities on Monday night to release the detained protestors, calling them “prisoners of conscience.”
- 11:51 06/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti)
The results of Russia’s parliamentary elections, in which the ruling United Russia party fared worse than expected, will not affect the country's investment-grade rating, international rating agency Fitch said.
- 09:56 06/12/2011 WASHINGTON, December 6 (RIA Novosti)
U.S. senator John McCain, known for his staunch criticism of Russia, warned Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that Russia would see an “Arab Spring” of its own, following the post-election street protests.
- 01:53 06/12/2011 WASHINGTON, December 6 (RIA Novosti)
The U.S. administration is worried about reports of electoral violations during the December 4 parliamentary elections in Russia, a White House spokesman said.
- 00:05 06/12/2011
A crowd estimated at up to 5,000 gathered in central Moscow on Monday to demonstrate against alleged election fraud at Sunday's parliamentary polls. Some 300 people were arrested.
- 23:07 05/12/2011
Thousands of people gathered in Moscow and St. Petersburg on Monday to protest against alleged election fraud at this weekend's parliamentary polls, which saw a big slump in support for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's United Russia party.
- 23:05 05/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 5 (RIA Novosti)
Thousands of people gathered in downtown Moscow on Monday to protest against alleged election fraud at this weekend's parliamentary polls, which saw a big slump in support for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's United Russia party.
- 22:29 05/12/2011 Alexei Korolyov for RIA Novosti
A video clip posted after Sunday's parliamentary elections shows an official at a polling station in Moscow filling out ballots as he sits at his desk.
- 21:40 05/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 5 (RIA Novosti)
The governing United Russia party has done well in the State Duma elections, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday.
- 20:05 05/12/2011 By Andrew Roth and Andrei Zolotov, Jr., Russia Profile
There is at least one area in which last Sunday’s parliamentary elections proved to be a breaking point, a milestone in the development of the Russian society. It was the role that the Internet in general and social media in particular played in informing the public about the course of the polling, the fraud and the results of the vote.
- 18:52 05/12/2011 By Maria Kuchma, RIA Novosti
Russia’s parliamentary elections may have revealed a slump in support for the ruling United Russia party, but it is still too early to talk about the decline of the country’s most powerful political force, analysts say.
- 17:53 05/12/2011 GORKI (Moscow region), December 5 (RIA Novosti)
The new-look State Duma that emerged after the weekend’s parliamentary polls will be more conducive to energetic debate, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday.
- 17:40 05/12/2011 By Nabi Abdullaev, RIA Novosti
The lower than expected parliamentary election results garnered by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party should encourage him to distance himself from it and reinforce his image of the national leader for all Russians ahead of presidential elections next March, political analysts said on Monday.
- 17:26 05/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 5 (RIA Novosti)
The Liberal Yabloko party that barely made it over the three-percent threshold in parliamentary elections on Sunday beat the remaining six other parties in the expat vote, while the national favorite United Russia scored best in Chechnya and in a Moscow mental institution.
- 15:38 05/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 5 (RIA Novosti)
Despite the lack of a level playing field, Russian voters made use of their right to express their choice in parliamentary elections, observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said on Monday.
- 15:13 05/12/2011 GROZNY, December 5 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s ruling United Russia party won 99.48 percent of votes in the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya during Sunday's parliamentary elections, the republican election committee said on Monday.
- 13:20 05/12/2011
On December 4, Russians vote in parliamentary elections.
- 11:06 05/12/2011 MOSCOW, RIA Novosti (December 5)
The pro-Kremlin United Russia party has won 238 of 450 seats during elections to the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, marking a significant drop compared to 315 seats after 2007’s elections, the Central Election Committee said on Monday.
- 11:01 05/12/2011
More than 100 opposition activists who attempted to stage rallies against the parliamentary elections were detained in Moscow on Sunday evening. A group of several dozen activists, mainly young men, chanted “Shame! Shame!,” lit several flares and tossed around opposition leaflets at the same time.
Seventy protesters were also detained in St. Petersburg
- 09:28 05/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 5 (RIA Novosti)
Police in Moscow have released all of the protesters who were detained on Sunday for attempting to stage unsanctioned demonstrations against parliamentary elections, a police spokesman told RIA Novosti on Monday.
- 08:14 05/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 5 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s party suffered a sharp drop in support in Sunday's parliamentary elections, winning nearly half of the vote but falling far short of the majority it has enjoyed for years, early results showed.
- 07:46 05/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 5 (RIA Novosti)
Grigory Yavlinsky, the leader of the Yabloko opposition party’s electoral list, said his party will contest the results of Sunday’s parliamentary elections that saw the ruling United Russia party balancing on the verge of the 50-percent mark.
- 06:32 05/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 5 (RIA Novosti)
The head of a Russian pollster, the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM), said on Monday the exit poll his organization conducted during Sunday's parliamentary election in Russia cost it some $1 million.
- 05:31 05/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 5 (RIA Novosti)
Some 1 percent of election protocols from polling places following Sunday’s parliamentary vote in Russia have been declared invalid, the country’s Central Election Commission (CEC) said on Monday.
- 02:12 05/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 5 (RIA Novosti)
With over 62 percent of the ballots counted, Russia’s ruling United Russia party is gaining 50.13 percent, and its closest rival, the Communist Party (KPRF) 19.49 percent.
- 01:45 05/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 5 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s ruling United Russia party, which is gaining slightly less than half of the vote in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, will need to enter a coalition with other parties on some issues, experts told RIA Novosti.
- 23:34 04/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 4 (RIA Novosti)
Vladimir Churov, the head of the Russian Central Election Commission, treated those present at the commission’s headquarters with a ballot box made of Tula pryanik cakes on Sunday evening.
- 22:57 04/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 4 (RIA Novosti)
The results of the vote on Sunday in Russia's parliamentary elections were "optimal" and "really reflect the situation in the country," Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said as early election results showed his United Russia party had suffered siginificant losses at the polls.
- 22:43 04/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 4 (RIA Novosti)
The results of the vote on Sunday in Russia's parliamentary elections were "optimal" and "really reflect the situation in the country," Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said as early election results showed his United Russia party had suffered siginificant losses at the polls.
- 22:21 04/12/2011
Russians are voting in parliamentary elections to form the sixth State Duma that will serve five years instead of the previous four-year term. The voting started across Russia at 8 a.m. local time at more than 96,000 polling stations where approximately 108 million Russians are expected to cast their vote.
- 21:51 04/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 4 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party failed on Sunday to win a majority in legislative elections, exit polls showed, confounding forecasts and confirming waning popular enthusiasm for the country’s dominant political organization.
- 21:32 04/12/2011 GROZNY, December 4 (RIA Novosti)
The turnout in the State Duma elections in the North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya hit 94 percent as of 6:00 p.m. local time (14:00 GMT), the head of the local election commission said on Sunday.
- 21:27 04/12/2011
On December 4, Russians vote in parliamentary elections.
- 21:16 04/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 4 (RIA Novosti)
United Russia party has garnered 48.5 percent in Russia's parliamentary elections, according to exit polls released by the All-Russia Center for Public Opinion (VTsIOM) on Sunday after polling stations closed at 9:00 p.m. local time in the westernmost exclave of Kaliningrad.
- 21:07 04/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 4 (RIA Novosti)
Parties competing for representation in the State Duma elections have complained of "tons of violations" during the Sunday polls, including illegal campaigning, vote fraud and even threats to observers.
- 20:52 04/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 4 (RIA Novosti)
Dozens of opposition activists who attempted to stage rallies against the parliamentary elections were arrested in Moscow and St. Petersburg Sunday evening.
- 19:31 04/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 4 (RIA Novosti)
1.8 million Russians from around the world are casting their vote for the parliamentary elections on Sunday, while some polling stations have already closed, others are just opening.
- 19:00 04/12/2011 By Nabi Abdullaev, MOSCOW, December 4 (RIA Novosti)
Russians vote Sunday in parliamentary elections that will test the country's trust in Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his ruling party amid growing impatience with corrupt and ineffective government.
- 18:10 04/12/2011 MAGAS, December 4 (RIA Novosti)
A 109-year-old woman came to a polling station in Ingushetia, a small republic in Russia's North Caucasus, to cast her vote in the parliamentary elections on Sunday.
- 18:03 04/12/2011
On December 4, Russians vote in parliamentary elections. Polls opened in the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia’s Far East at 8am local time Sunday (2000 GMT Saturday) and are to close at 8pm local time (1700 GMT) in the western exclave of Kaliningrad.
- 17:46 04/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 4 (RIA Novosti)
An unusual ballot box of traditional pryanik cakes was made in the Tula Region, south of Moscow, Vladimir Churov, the head of the Russian Central Election Commission said on Sunday.
- 16:59 04/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 4 (RIA Novosti)
Popular Russian media websites, the major LiveJournal social network and the website of the country’s biggest independent election watchdog, were inaccessible in hacking attacks for several hours on Sunday in what their employees said was an attempt to jam information on parliamentary elections.
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