- 15:54 28/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 28 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office in a report issued on Saturday said it has exposed about 3,000 violations committed during the recent parliamentary and presidential polls.
- 18:07 27/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 27 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s Supreme Court turned down a lawsuit from 12 voters against the outcome of the presidential elections that saw Prime Minister Vladimir Putin win by a landslide on March 4, the court’s web site said on Friday.
- 16:30 18/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 18 (RIA Novosti)
The report by a delegation of monitors from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Russia’s presidential elections is realistic while its criticism is logical, deputy head of the Russian delegation to the PACE, Alexander Pochinok said on Wednesday.
- 21:30 13/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 13 (RIA Novosti, Maria Kuchma)
A delegation of monitors from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) shed light on Thursday on what is likely to become the main points of their final report on Russia’s presidential elections to be presented in Strasbourg later in April.
- 13:29 14/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 14 (RIA Novosti)
The Central Election Commission will check information from media reports concerning allegedly additional lists of voters at the presidential elections of March 4, commission spokesman Nikolai Konkin said on Wednesday.
- 16:26 11/03/2012
Russia's first elected president was Boris Yeltsin, who won the June 1991 presidential polls with 57.3% of the vote. Vladimir Putin won a landslide victory during the March 4 polls with 63.6% of the vote.
- 07:32 09/03/2012 WASHINGTON, March 9 (RIA Novosti)
White House spokesman Jay Carney said no conclusions should be drawn from the fact that U.S. President Barack Obama has not yet personally congratulated Russian Prime Minister and president-elect Vladimir Putin on winning the March 4 polls.
- 22:40 07/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 7 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) certified on Wednesday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's victory in Sunday's presidential elections.
- 19:04 07/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 7 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s opposition movement will become a real political force when it makes "desirable" proposals on the future development of the country, Russian Prime Minister and president-elect Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.
- 18:57 07/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 7 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Prime Minister and president-elect Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday there might have been violations in Sunday’s vote but they did not go beyond hundredths of a percentage point.
- 14:45 07/03/2012 KOSTROMA, March 7 (RIA Novosti)
Law enforcement agencies will investigate the election commission in the city of Kostroma in central Russia, where data on thousands of absentee ballots were allegedly “washed away” by a sudden flood on the premises.
- 21:15 06/03/2012 Weekly column by Svetlana Kolchik
In the evening of Monday, March 6, the day following the presidential elections, I was walking along Tverskaya Ыtreet, the key downtown Moscow artery linking Red Square with the square where the protest rally was about to take place.
- 19:30 06/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 6 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow disputes some of the points contained in international observer reports on Sunday’s presidential elections, which Prime Minister Vladimir Putin won in a landslide, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Tuesday.
- 15:25 06/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 6 (Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti)
Russia’s anti-Putin protest movement is in talks with the authorities over a new rally in downtown Moscow on March 10, protest organizer Sergei Udaltsov said on Tuesday.
- 15:12 06/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 6 (Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti)
Vladimir Putin admitted on Tuesday that irregularities had taken place at March 4 polls that secured his election as president and called for a probe.
- 13:57 06/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 6 (RIA Novosti)
Two men who agreed to supply homemade bombs to be detonated at a crowded, post-election rally on Manezh Square next to the Kremlin have been arrested in the Moscow Region, Newsru.com said.
- 13:00 06/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 6 (RIA Novosti)
Russia is determined to stay the course in relations with the United States, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Tuesday.
- 11:11 06/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 6 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's leading opposition activists, who were detained then shortly released after Monday’s post-election anti-Putin rally, will hold another protest march on Saturday, an organizer of the protest, journalist Sergei Parkhomenko said.
- 09:45 06/03/2012 RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Babich
While Vladimir Putin scored a decisive victory in the presidential election, the success of the opposition in some major cities was notable. The surprising third-place finish of the independent liberal candidate Mikhail Prokhorov is bigger news than the predictable second-place finish of Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov.
- 06:09 06/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 6 (RIA Novosti)
U.S. Ambassador in Russia Michael McFaul has expressed concern over a crackdown on protesters in downtown Moscow on Monday.
- 04:28 06/03/2012 LONDON, March 6 (RIA Novosti)
Britain will work with Russian president-elect Vladimir Putin to overcome obstacles in relations between the two countries, Prime Minister David Cameron said.
- 00:54 06/03/2012
Thousands of opponents of president-elect Vladimir Putin rallied on Pushkinskaya Square in downtown Moscow on Monday evening to denounce his victory at the presidential polls as illegitimate, as thousands of others gathered near Red Square to celebrate Putin’s victory in the presidential polls with a solid 64% of the national elections held on Sunday.
- 23:57 05/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 5 (Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti)
Riot police arrested scores of people in downtown Moscow on Monday at a rally to protest the election of Vladimir Putin as president at polls marred by allegations of vote fraud.
- 23:42 05/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 5 (RIA Novosti)
Riot police dispersed protesters who tried to prolong an opposition rally in downtown Moscow on late Monday, detaining hundreds, including prominent whistleblower Alexei Navalny and leftist leader Sergei Udaltsov
- 23:40 05/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 5 (RIA Novosti)
Thousands of opponents of president-elect Vladimir Putin rallied on Pushkinskaya Square in downtown Moscow on Monday evening to denounce his victory at the presidential polls as illegitimate, an event that ended with hundreds of protesters detained.
- 21:49 05/03/2012
About 10,000 rallied at the Manezh Square by the Kremlin walls to hail Putin’s victory at the presidential polls on Monday evening.
- 21:46 05/03/2012
About 10,000 rallied at the Manezh Square by the Kremlin walls to hail Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s victory at the presidential polls, police said.
- 21:17 05/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 5 (RIA Novosti)
With 100 percent of the ballots counted, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin won 63.6 percent of the vote in Sunday’s presidential election, securing victory in the first round to take the post of the president for the next six years, the Central Election Commission (CEC) reported on Monday.
- 21:12 05/03/2012
Thousands of protesters against Vladimir Putin's victory in the presidential elections rallied on Pushkinskaya Square in downtown Moscow on Monday evening.
- 19:51 05/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 5 (RIA Novosti)
About 100 activists of the radical opposition group The Other Russia were detained during an unsanctioned protest near the office of the Central Elections Commission in downtown Moscow on Monday.
- 19:40 05/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 5 (RIA Novosti)
With all ballots counted, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gained 63.6 percent of the vote and his closest rival Gennady Zyuganov 17.18 percent in Sunday’s presidential election, the Central Election Commission reported on Monday.
- 19:11 05/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 5 (RIA Novosti)
The opposition gather at an authorized rally on Pushkinskaya Square to protest against the results of the elections that they say were allegedly fabricated in favor of Putin. Another opposition demonstration is expected at Lubyanka Square.
- 18:43 05/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 5 (RIA Novosti, Maria Kuchma)
International monitors gave different assessments of Russia’s presidential elections that secured Vladimir Putin a third term in the Kremlin.
- 17:38 05/03/2012 ZHUKOVKA, Moscow Region (RIA Novosti)
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who won a third presidential term on Sunday, is ready for cooperation with the new party one of the opposition candidates, Mikhail Prokhorov, plans to create.
- 17:22 05/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 5 (RIA Novosti)
Migration authorities will expel notorious Ukrainian female activists who stripped at a polling station in Moscow to protest alleged violations at the Russian presidential elections.
- 15:50 05/03/2012 ZHUKOVKA (Moscow Region), March 5 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who won Sunday’s presidential elections, said on Monday he plans to instruct the Central Election Commission (CEC) to investigate all possible violations during the vote.
- 14:13 05/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 5 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's March 4 presidential election , which was won by Vladimir Putin, was transparent and conducted fully in accordance with Russian law according to an observer mission from the CIS states.
- 13:10 05/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 5 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow is bracing itself on Monday with thousands of rival demonstrators expected to take to the streets this evening in post-election rallies, after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was elected president in an election the opposition claim was flawed.
- 11:42 05/03/2012 PYATIGORSK, March 5 (RIA Novosti)
The results of the March 4 presidential elections were annulled at a polling station in the Dagestani village of Tarumovka after staff where spotted by web cameras opening the ballot box before the approved time, the local election commission said on Monday.
- 10:54 05/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 5 (RIA Novosti)
MOSCOW, March 5 (RIA Novosti) – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin secured 63.71 percent, or 44.9 million votes, as 99.5 percent of all ballots have been counted in Sunday’s presidential elections, the Russian Central Election Commission (CEC) said on Monday.
- 08:49 05/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 5 (RIA Novosti)
Voting for the Russian presidential elections abroad has just ended in the U.S. West Coast, completing the polls, which began at 3:00 Sunday Moscow time and 23:00 Saturday GMT in Japan.
- 07:46 05/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 5 (RIA Novosti)
With 99.3 percent of the votes counted, President elect Vladimir Putin has won 63.75 percent of the vote, the Central Election Commission announced on Monday.
- 07:25 05/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 5 (RIA Novosti)
Russian political experts said Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gained a convincing victory in the March 4 presidential elections and a major reshuffle in the Russian government is to follow.
- 06:20 05/03/2012 VLADIVOSTOK, March 5 (RIA Novosti)
About 2,500 supporters of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin gathered on Monday in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok to take part in a rally headlined “Fair elections – clean victory.”
- 04:52 05/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
Billionaire presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov, who came in third place in Russia’s presidential race according to preliminary results, said he did not consider the elections fair and vowed to run for the presidency again, “and not just once.”
- 03:00 05/03/2012
Supporters of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gathered for a support rally after voting ended on March 4.
- 02:21 05/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 5 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday expressed his satisfaction with how the network of webcams performed at the majority of polling stations in Russia, and said such system will be used in the future.
- 02:06 05/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 5 (RIA Novosti)
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin who is leading in the vote count after Sunday's presidential election, pledged early Monday to fulfill all his campaign promises.
- 01:37 05/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 5 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is ready for dialog with members of the opposition, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.
- 01:08 05/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 5 (Andrei Zolotov Jr., Russia Profile)
Having passed veteran politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky and coming third after the Sunday presidential elections, billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, the only new face in the 2012 Kremlin race, has demonstrated that the political system is hungry for change, analysts said Sunday night.
- 23:54 04/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
Russian police reported on Sunday they had not registered any violations which could affect the results of the country’s presidential elections.
- 23:23 04/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
Vladimir Putin told tens of thousands of supporters at a rally in downtown Moscow that he had won Sunday's presidential elections in a “fair and open fight."
- 23:15 04/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti)
It was a handover of power more unexpected than most and one that would shape Russia’s destiny for the next decade and beyond.
- 23:12 04/03/2012 Andrei Zolotov, Jr., Russia Profile
The Big Brother is watching you! All of Russia was transformed into one big reality show on Sunday as thousands of webcams, in the first ever giant operation, fixed their unblinking gaze on more than 94 000 polling stations around the country.
- 22:50 04/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti)
Vladimir Putin secured a third term in the Kremlin on Sunday after recording a resounding victory at Russia’s presidential polls amid allegations of electoral violations.
- 22:45 04/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti) – Billionaire presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov, who came in third place in Russia’s presidential race according to preliminary results, said he did not consider the elections fair and vowed to run for the presidency again, “and not just once.”
- 22:41 04/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
Three policemen and a gunman died during an attack on a polling station in Russia's republic of Dagestan on Sunday, Deputy Interior Minister Alexander Gorovoi said.
- 22:40 04/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow police said more than 110,000 have gathered on Manezh Square near the Moscow Kremlin for a rally to support presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, who is likely to win the elections in the first round.
- 22:30 04/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
Chess tournaments, traditional Caucasian dancing, half-naked voters and five heart attacks were among the memorable highlights of Russia’s presidential polling day on March 4.
- 21:45 04/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, whom exit polls placed second after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the presidential elections Sunday, called the vote “unfair, dishonest and unworthy.”
- 21:38 04/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti, Andrew Roth)
A mixed crowd of politicians and media personalities welcomed an expected victory for Vladimir Putin Sunday night in an upbeat event at his campaign headquarters in central Moscow.
- 19:16 04/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
Voter turnout for Sunday's Russian presidential polls had risen to 58.3 percent by 6 p.m. Moscow time, election officials said.
- 17:47 04/03/2012 REDKINO, March 4 (RIA Novosti, Alexey Eremenko)
Like the rest of Russia, the 11,000 people of Redkino, a small town 120 kilometers northwest of Moscow, are taking part in electing the country's president on Sunday.
- 16:46 04/03/2012
More than ten ice swimming enthusiasts voted semi-naked in the city of Barnaul, Siberia on Sunday at Russia's presidential elections.
- 16:10 04/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s Presidential Hopefuls – A Guide.
- 16:02 04/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
Three Russian cosmonauts cast their ballots for the Russian presidential elections on Sunday from the international space station, Russia’s Mission Control said on Sunday.
- 15:42 04/03/2012 MAGAS, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
A 116-year-old man came to a polling station in Ingushetia, a small republic in Russia’s North Caucasus, to cast his vote in the presidential elections, Muslim Albogachiyev, a member of the republican election commission, said on Sunday.
- 15:32 04/03/2012
Russians are voting on Sunday to elect a president for the fifth time in the nation’s post-Soviet history.
- 14:44 04/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin voted on Sunday in presidential elections that see him bidding to return him to the Kremlin after a four-year hiatus.
- 14:26 04/03/2012
All the presidential candidates, except the only independent, Mikhail Prokhorov, voted at Moscow polling stations in the presidential polls on Sunday. Billionaire Prokhorov voted in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Siberia.
- 14:24 04/03/2012 BARNAUL, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
More than ten ice swimming enthusiasts voted semi-naked in Siberia on Sunday at Russia's presidential polls.
- 13:02 04/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
Presidential candidate and Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov said on Sunday he was voting for an “educated and prosperous” Russia as he cast his ballot in the presidential elections.
- 12:48 04/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
Electoral turnout for Russia’s presidential poll on Sunday exceeded 15 percent in the first two hours of voting, the Central Election Commission said on Sunday.
- 11:13 04/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
Almost 260,000 Russian nationals voted early in Russia's presidential election, an election commission official said on Sunday.
- 09:40 04/03/2012 MOSCOW/KALININGRAD, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
Polling stations opened in Russia's westernmost exclave of Kaliningrad, which joined other Russian regions on Sunday to elect a president for the fifth time in the nation’s post-Soviet history.
- 08:14 04/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
Russians began voting on Sunday in Moscow and St. Petersburg to elect a president for the fifth time in the nation’s post-Soviet history.
- 08:04 04/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
Russians began voting on Sunday in Moscow and St. Petersburg to elect a president for the fifth time in the nation’s post-Soviet history.
- 07:06 04/03/2012 ANADYR/PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY/MAGADAN, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
No gross violations have been reported during Sunday’s Russian presidential elections in the Chukotka Autonomous Area, as well as in the Kamchatka and Magadan regions in the Far East
- 06:13 04/03/2012 KRASNOYARSK, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
The only independent billionaire candidate in Russia’s presidential elections, Mikhail Prokhorov, cast his ballot on Sunday in the Krasnoyarsk Territory in East Siberia
- 04:22 04/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
Russians began voting on Sunday across Russia’s Far East to elect a president for the fifth time in the nation’s post-Soviet history.
- 03:58 04/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
A video wall showing webcasts from polling places across Russia was launched in the Central Election Commission (CEC) on Sunday
- 03:01 04/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has received two complaints over alleged violations of the “day of silence” prior to Sunday’s presidential elections, when any form of election propaganda is prohibited
- 01:59 04/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
Over 380,000 police officers, about 30,000 voluntary police helpers and some 31,000 private guards will ensure order in Russia on Sunday, when the country elects its new president
- 00:11 04/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
Russians began voting on Sunday in the Kamchatka and Magadan regions in the country’s Far East to elect a president for the fifth time in the nation’s post-Soviet history, the first in which the president will serve a six-year term, and not four years as previously
- 00:10 04/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
Voting, turnout, first results.
- 00:02 04/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti)
Russians began voting on Sunday in the Kamchatka Region in Russia’s Far East to elect a president for the fifth time in the nation’s post-Soviet history, the first in which the president will serve a six-year term, and not four years as previously.
- 20:45 03/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 3 (RIA Novosti)
Several Russian Pro-Kremlin youth movements will hold a total of 26 rallies in Moscow on Sunday and Monday as Russians will vote in the presidential election on March 4, Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reported.
- 15:36 03/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 3 (RIA Novosti)
About 600,000 Russians have registered on webvybory2012.ru site which will broadcast the course of the March 4 presidential elections, chief Moscow municipal electoral commission Valentin Gorbunov said on Saturday.
- 02:46 03/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 3 (RIA Novosti)
Russia entered on Saturday into the so-called ‘day of silence,’ prior to March 4 presidential elections, when any form of election propaganda is prohibited.
- 22:41 02/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 2 (RIA Novosti)
Experts say that the presidential election campaign due to finish on March 2 has been one of the most vigorous and interesting of the last decade. In their opinion, Putin made an all-out effort, while his opponents put up a real fight, supplementing their usual arsenals with tougher rhetoric and high quality video commercials. They were forced to involve not only PR experts but also psychologists in their campaigns.
- 20:16 02/03/2012 KYZYL/MOSCOW, March 2 (RIA Novosti)
Three presidential candidates, current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, billionaire independent presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov and A Just Russia party candidate Sergei Mironov, have urged Russians to come to polling stations and cast their vote in Sunday’s presidential elections.
- 19:06 02/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 2 (RIA Novosti)
Russian billionaire independent presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov and the A Just Russia party candidate, Sergei Mironov, have have both written articles urging Russians to come to cast their ballots on Sunday.
- 18:20 02/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 2 (Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti)
Russia’s presidential elections look set to trigger days of protests and rallies in Moscow and nationwide as opponents and supporters of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s bid to return to the Kremlin prepare to take to the streets.
- 18:09 02/03/2012 MOSCOW, February 27 (RIA Novosti, Alexey Eremenko)
They disagree on much, but supporters and opponents of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin say they are united on at least one point: The need to keep the unprecedented public demonstrations that have been peaceful all winter from taking a violent turn.
- 15:39 02/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 2 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow prosecutors have warned the leadership of Russia’s independent election monitoring group Golos not to disclose any results of the March 4 presidential elections until all polling stations have closed.
- 15:27 02/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 2 (Andrew Roth, Russia Profile)
If Vladimir Putin does not win reelection this weekend, the following may happen: hundreds of political parties will be formed and nationalists and liberals from the 1990s will struggle for power.
- 14:25 02/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 2 (RIA Novosti)
The Communist Party of Russia united with two major public movements to perform an alternative vote count of the March 4 presidential elections, a senior party member said on Friday.
- 14:25 02/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 2 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s Presidential Hopefuls – A Guide.
- 08:22 02/03/2012 NOVO-OGARYOVO (Moscow Region), March 2 (RIA Novosti)
In an interview with six foreign newspapers on Friday, Russian prime minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin has promised to continue liberal reforms in Russia if elected president on Sunday and said he was still unsure whether he wanted to remain in the Kremlin beyond 2018.
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