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It’s not quite fair to say that Russia’s recent presidential election was rigged. After all, President Vladimir V. Putin, who coasted to a comfortable victory less than two weeks ago, is extremely popular. Even with the ballot-stuffing, media manipulation and other election irregularities which marred the process, Putin’s 72.1 percent of the vote is still impressive in Russia’s semi-democratic environment. Yet there is still ample cause for concern. Democracy in the world’s largest country is not well—and it is only...
...strained relations with party leaders. Last week, MDP lawmakers teamed up with legislators from the conservative GNP to oust him. Knowing they would lose a vote, members of the pro-Roh Uri Party?which holds only 47 of the Assembly's 273 seats?tried to block the March 12 balloting by forming a human shield around the Speaker's podium, hoping to prevent him from taking his seat and calling the vote. It didn't work. Security guards physically carried out the barricading legislators, and the ruffled Speaker took his seat to call a secret ballot on the motion, which...
Powell, meanwhile, said that the day after sending out his message, he received a concerned e-mail from an HCL supervisor, who worried that the e-mail might skew results and stuff the ballot...
...National Electoral Council's rejection of a petition calling for a referendum on Hugo Chávez's presidency. Although the opposition presented 3.1 million signatures in favor of the recall vote, the council declared only 1.8 million valid - 600,000 short of the threshold for triggering a ballot...
...five days' food supply. MEANWHILE AT THE U.N. ... A Bad Day for Diplomacy Embarrassed U.N. officials were searching for a new date for the upcoming referendum on the unification of the Greek south and Turkish north of Cyprus after realizing that April 21 - the date earmarked for the ballot - coincided with the anniversary of one of the darkest days in modern Greek history. On that day in 1967, the Greek military mounted a coup that resulted in seven years of military dictatorship in Athens and eventually triggered the Turkish invasion of Cyprus...