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russian election

Kasparov pulls out of Presidential race

December 13, 2007

Garry Kasparov has announced that he will withdraw from the race for the Russian Presidency.
Kasparov, the former World Chess Champion, says he was forced into his decision because Other Russia were not able to find a venue to occupy 500 supporters in an initiative group meeting – a requirement of Russian electoral law. [...]

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Dmitry Medvedev: Russia’s next President

December 10, 2007

After literally years of speculation, it is now clear that Dmitry Medvedev will be Russia’s next President.
Medvedev was nominated by United Russia and endorsed by Vladimir Putin – an endorsement so powerful that now all he has to do to win the Presidential election next March is stay alive.
Medvedev has no real power [...]

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Putin Party Power!

December 5, 2007

I love this graphic from German magazine Spiegel Online, which perfectly sums up how the world saw Russia’s election.

No respect at all for United Russia as a legitimate party – all they are is the Putin party.
(Hat tip: Herr Shedd).

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Putin’s United Russia win – but fall just short of super-majority

December 3, 2007

Much as everyone expected, Putin’s United Russia party won a massive victory in yesterdays’ Russian elections. As I write, 97.8 % of the votes have been counted, and 64.1% of these went to United Russia.
Other parties passing the seven percent threshold and guaranteeing themselves seats in the next Duma were the Communists (11.6%), [...]

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Does Putin really want a 2-party Duma?

November 21, 2007

With just a couple of weeks to go until Russia’s parliamentary elections on 2nd December, it’s looking increasingly as though United Russia are set for a massive victory.

However, depressingly, only two of the ‘major’ parties are likely to scrape together the seven percent of votes needed to gain any seats in the Duma – United [...]

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