Wall Street Journal 2 December 2011 MOSCOW – Russian prosecutors accused the country's largest independent election-monitoring group of violating election laws, days before a parliamentary vote in which observers and opposition groups forecast widespread fraud. The move comes as the Kremlin battles voter apathy and indications that the lofty personal appeal of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is beginning to wane. The main pro-Kremlin political

Wall Street Journal 2 December 2011 MOSCOW – Russian prosecutors accused the country's largest independent election-monitoring group of violating election laws, days before a parliamentary vote in which observers and opposition groups forecast widespread fraud. The move comes as the Kremlin battles voter apathy and indications that the lofty personal appeal of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is beginning to wane. The main pro-Kremlin political

Spencer Oliver, Petros Efthymiou and Grigory Melkoniants, Regional Network Manager of GOLOS. MOSCOW, 1 December 2011 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Petros Efthymiou, appointed by the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Azubalis, to lead the short-term observers for the Russian elections on 4 December, arrived in Moscow with the team of experts on Monday as final preparations for the 2011 Election Observation

Spencer Oliver, Petros Efthymiou and Grigory Melkoniants, Regional Network Manager of GOLOS. MOSCOW, 1 December 2011 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Petros Efthymiou, appointed by the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Azubalis, to lead the short-term observers for the Russian elections on 4 December, arrived in Moscow with the team of experts on Monday as final preparations for the 2011 Election Observation

Washington Post 30 November 2011 By Associated Press MOSCOW — Alexei Balitsky, a student at Russia's top engineering school, is among hundreds of people across the country who have complained of pressure to vote for the Kremlin's party in this weekend's parliamentary elections. The independent election watchdog group Golos said Wednesday that about a third of the 4,000 complaints of violations it has received so far come from voters who say

Washington Post 30 November 2011 By Associated Press MOSCOW — Alexei Balitsky, a student at Russia's top engineering school, is among hundreds of people across the country who have complained of pressure to vote for the Kremlin's party in this weekend's parliamentary elections. The independent election watchdog group Golos said Wednesday that about a third of the 4,000 complaints of violations it has received so far come from voters who say