INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
to participate in the March election or organize independent monitoring of the vote, while the Kremlin is expected to claim a high-score
independent outlet Meduzareported last summer.According to Volkov, whocited the results of a November telephone survey of Russians conducted
17, the last day of the three-day voting.They said that Russian voters queuing outside polling stations on the last voting day at noon
imprisoned opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, sentenced to 25 years in prison for state treason.The idea behind the action, which they
the non-recognition by European Parliament members and a number of EU member states the results of the 2020 Belarusian election, which
declared incumbent autocrat Alexander Lukashenko, an ally of the Kremlin, the clear winner.However, according to Luc Devigne, deputy
Yashin,Vladimir Kara-Murza,Liliya Chanysheva and hundreds of other lesser-known opposition activists, human rights defenders, and opposition
need for Russia to end the war in Ukraine, wasdenied registration
three fully Kremlin-controlled candidates, voting in the presidential election will for the first time last three days instead of a single
to force state and municipal employees, employees of state corporations and major companies with a state stake, where millions of people
work across the country, to vote on their personal computers and even on their smartphones, right at their workplaces, under the control of
Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia, currently controlled by Russian troops.There, even residents who have not received a Russian
be held as early as 20 days before the main voting day, which would mean late February, but could happen in early March, according to the
Kommersant business daily, which cited unnamed sources in the Russian-appointed administrations of the occupied territories.This article was
published in collaboration with EURACTIV.
