Russians cast votes Sunday across nine time zones, in parliamentary polls that have been plagued by claims of campaign fraud and intimidation of election monitors. The elections are widely expected to hand victory to Vladimir Putin’s ruling United Russia Party, which held a two-thirds majority in the outgoing State Duma (lower house of parliament). But […]
Russia Chooses New Parliament, as Vote Fraud Allegations Mount
Posted December 4th, 2011 at 12:20 pm (UTC-5)
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Slovenia Looks to Center-Right in Snap Polls
Posted December 4th, 2011 at 10:50 am (UTC-5)
Slovenians are voting in early elections expected to bring conservatives back to power on a pledge to deal with the nation’s mounting debt, high unemployment and the threat of renewed recession. The parliamentary vote was called in September, after the Alpine state’s minority center-left government was ousted in a no-confidence vote. That vote came amid […]
Russia Holds Elections Amid Complaints of Fraud
Posted December 4th, 2011 at 8:20 am (UTC-5)
Russians cast votes Sunday in parliamentary elections that were plagued by claims of campaign fraud and intimidation of observers. Popular Russian opposition radio station Moscow Echo and election monitoring group Golos said their websites were the victims of hacking attacks Sunday. Both said their site failures were caused by denial-of-service attacks, which overloaded the sites […]
Russians Begin Voting in Parliamentary Elections
Posted December 3rd, 2011 at 11:10 pm (UTC-5)
Voters Russia are casting ballots in parliamentary elections that are expected to favor Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party. Polling stations opened starting in the Russia’s far east. The voting Sunday comes amid claims of campaign fraud and unprecedented intimidation of observers. Members of Russia’s only independent election monitoring group say their leader Lilya […]
Congo Opposition Rejects Partial Vote Results
Posted December 3rd, 2011 at 7:45 pm (UTC-5)
The main opposition party in the Democratic Republic of Congo says it rejects early election results that give incumbent President Joseph Kabila some 50 percent of the vote. Opposition candidate Etienne Tshisekedi is estimated to have about 34 percent of the vote so far. In a show of unity, the 10 opposition parties on Saturday […]
Russians Begin Voting in Parliamentary Elections
Posted December 3rd, 2011 at 6:40 pm (UTC-5)
Voters in Russia’s far east have begun casting ballots in parliamentary elections that are expected to favor Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party. The voting Sunday comes amid claims of campaign fraud and unprecedented intimidation of observers. Members of Russia’s only independent election monitoring group say their leader was detained for 12 hours Saturday […]
Congo Opposition Rejects Partial Vote Results
Posted December 3rd, 2011 at 3:10 pm (UTC-5)
The main opposition party in the Democratic Republic of Congo says it rejects early election results that give incumbent President Joseph Kabila some 50 percent of the vote. The Union for Democracy and Social Progress party said Saturday that it rejects the partial election results. It accused election officials of trying to mislead the public […]
Congo Vote Disputed
Posted December 3rd, 2011 at 12:40 pm (UTC-5)
A chaotic vote count continues in the Democratic Republic of Congo Saturday, as arguments fly over whether the vote and its tally are free and fair. Congo’s Independent National Election Commission told VOA Friday that President Joseph Kabila has taken an early lead over his main challenger, Etienne Tshisekedi. But Tshisekedi’s party, the Union for […]
Russian Election ‘Watchdog’ Detained
Posted December 3rd, 2011 at 7:50 am (UTC-5)
Members of Russia’s only independent election monitoring group say their leader was detained for 12 hours at a Moscow airport overnight, on the eve of Sunday’s parliamentary vote. Customs officials held Golos leader Lilya Shibanova at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport after she refused to hand over her laptop to security officers who said they wanted to […]
Election Official: Kabila Ahead in Early, Partial Vote Tallies
Posted December 2nd, 2011 at 9:55 pm (UTC-5)
Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila has taken an early lead in the vote count from this week’s presidential election. Mathieu Mpita, a spokesman for Congo’s Independent National Election Commission, told VOA Friday that President Kabila has 1.5 million votes so far, while veteran opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi is running second with 996,000 votes. […]
