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OSCE Monitors Continue to Await Visas
With State Duma elections less than three weeks away, electoral monitors from the OSCE are still awaiting visas.
Nov 15, 2007 | Continued
SPS Under Attack
The Union of Right Forces (SPS) is the target of a Kremlin “smear campaign” to discredit it.
Nov 14, 2007 | Continued
Media Control 101
A recently leaked memo instructed media outlets on how to write a breaking story to discredit the Just Russia party. Though the authors are unknown, the memo’s instructions were widely followed in the mass-media.
Nov 14, 2007 | Continued
Activists and Organizers Harassed In St. Petersburg
All across St. Petersburg, militsiya officers have continued to actively seize campaigning and promotional materials of the Other Russia.
Nov 12, 2007 | Continued
Silence in Samara
The “Novaya Gazeta in Samara” has ceased publication due to pressure from the authorities.
Nov 11, 2007 | Continued
Opposition March Registered for November 24th
The Other Russia has filed its official registration for the upcoming “Dissenter’s March” in Moscow.
Nov 9, 2007 | Continued
Predetermined Opinion Polls
The New Times reported on one possible source of president Vladimir Putin’s sky-high popularity— a state-run polling agency subservient to the Kremlin.
Nov 9, 2007 | Continued
Beslan Women Demand Justice
Two women’s organizations from Beslan, where hundreds perished in a 2004 terrorist attack, have staged a demonstration against the “Putin Plan.”
Nov 8, 2007 | Continued
“Election Monitoring is Already Interference” – Churov
The head of Russia’s Central Electoral Commission, Vladimir Churov, announced today that allowing international elections monitors in every electoral district is “interference with domestic affairs.”
Nov 6, 2007 | Continued
In “1612,” Unicorns Meet Tsars
A new film, commissioned by the Kremlin, revisits the story of Russian unification. In “1612,” foreign invaders are pushed out, a young hero must rescue a princess he loves, and a new tsar is chosen, all under the eye of an alabaster unicorn.
Nov 5, 2007 | Continued