 Golos In general, the RF presidential elections can be characterized as normal in the context of the past decade of Russian elections, with an insufficient level of competition, government interference with the electoral process, and some degree of coercion to vote. These elections cannot be classified as free and fair under the definitions provided in the Russian constitution and international electoral standards. [read more] For more information see the previous reports on the European Exchange website and Facebook. Impressum This newsletter is produced by European Exchange (www.european-exchange.org) in cooperation with Golos Association (www.golos.org) in Moscow, Russland Analysen (http://www.laender-analysen.de/russland/) and Heinrich Boell Foundation (www.boell.de). All election reports will be published bi-weekly in the periodicals Russland Analysen (in German) and the Russian Analytical Digest (in English, http://www.res.ethz.ch/analysis/rad/ ). European Exchange, Berlin is supporting the development of civil societies in the eastern neighbour states of the European Union and is cooperating since 2007 with networks of domestic election monitoring in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine. The European Exchange is holder of the annual German-Ukrainian conference Kiev Dialogue, is co-initiator of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum and member of the Civil Society Forum of the Eastern Partnership. |
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