March 2012
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WatchSome good vox pop video footage from last night in #Moscow (RU) by @Svoboda Radio
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“[Putin’s] victory is convincing. One can debate specific percentages, but I have no doubt whatsoever that Vladimir Putin won the first round and that the majority of Russian citizens voted for him.”
— A Just Russia party leader Sergei Mironov, who ran in the presidential election, speaking today (March 5) at a news conference in Moscow.
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News Analysis: Putin Wins A Battle, But Is He...
When Prime Minister Vladimir Putin went to the polls in Russia’s weekend presidential election, he accidentally dropped his ballot paper on the floor before casting his vote.
Shortly after he left the polling station, activists from the Ukrainian women’s rights group Femen showed up, stripped off their shirts, and tried to steal the ballot box while chanting “Putin is a...
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'It's Going To Be Messy' -- Edward Lucas on...
@PowerVertical’s Brian Whitmore spoke to veteran Russia-watcher Edward Lucas: ”I think it is going to be messy. The opposition is too weak to win. I don’t think [the authorities] have the capabilities to do a real crackdown…[READ MORE]
“According to preliminary results, Vladimir Putin has won more than 45,109,000 votes, which is 63.75 percent of all votes.” — CEC Chairman Vladimir Churov speaking early today at a news conference in Moscow after more than 99 percent of the votes in the Russian presidential election have been processed.
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Via @vesti_vews: Prokhorov at a news conference in Moscow: ”If anybody thinks that the election has ended on March 4, they are very much mistaken. It is just beginning, because those people who vote for me are exactly that future ruling class that will assume responsibility for what is happening in our country.”
Russian presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov speaking today (March...
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Watch @SvobodaRadio’s live stream from the streets of Moscow & from studio in Moscow.
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“Candidate Vladimir Putin has 61.81 percent.” Russian Election Commission Chairman Vladimir Churov announcing the preliminary results of the presidential election at a news conference in Moscow after 14.5 percent of the ballots have been processed.
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WatchElections in Kirov, Russia @SvobodaRadio exclusive interview with Nikita Belykh.
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Lilia Shibanova, chief of Russia’s @GOLOS_ORG tells @SvobodaRadio: ”There was a conflict with the district election commission which prohibited observers from moving around the polling station. [Golos] correspondents began explaining to the election officials that their demand was illegal but they were removed from the polling station under the threat of physical violence. They went to...
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Aleksei Navalny speaking on Dozhd TV: “The scale [of carousel voting] is absolutely unprecedented. We know that Moscow Oblast ran out of absentee ballots several days ago. It was impossible to get an absentee ballot in Moscow. All of these absentee ballots were distributed among these brigades, which have been seen in large numbers today.”
Russian lawyer, anticorruption blogger, and...
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WatchBy @SvobodaRadio’s correspondent in Bolotnaya square in Moscow.
See the video on Radio Svoboda’s website.
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@BalmforthTom in central Moscow: “Loads of people [at this particular polling station] were voting for Prokhorov. At least three-quarters of the people I asked were voting for Prokhorov. But I suppose at the same time it doesn’t really have much significance considering that I conducted a similar set of interviews during the State Duma election and everyone at the time said they were...
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Via @vesti_news #Zyuganov: “At many polling stations, if you vote with your back to the camera and cover the ballot box, the camera sees only your back and doesn’t see how many ballots you’re putting in the box.”
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Via @BalmforthTom #Moscow, pensioner Sergei, 74: “Of course, [Putin] really is the only satisfactory candidate.”
