News archive on the topic "ODIHR"

“They are Russophobes” – the Russian Foreign Ministry will sharply reduce the number of OSCE election observers

It’s time for Russia to abandon the services of the Russophobic OSCE ODIHR and turn to more adequate international monitoring organizations. Ambassador at Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Gennady Askaldovich stated this during a press conference in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “International observation is a generally accepted way to confirm the legitimacy of the election process and its compliance with generally accepted international standards. It so happened...

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Pamfilova: The OSCE leadership divided countries into “first and second class”

The OSCE/ODIHR demonstrated double standards by refusing to send observers to the State Duma elections. This was stated by the Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, as reported by the PolitNavigator correspondent, as quoted by Rossiyskaya Gazeta. She was asked about the OSCE's refusal to send a mission to the upcoming elections and wondered whether this would lead to a surge in mistrust and doubts about the legitimacy of parliament in the West. She noted...

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Russian Foreign Ministry: The legitimacy of the elections will be determined by the Russian people, not the ODIHR

A number of representatives of the Western bloc belonging to the OSCE, contrary to the purpose of the organization, are trying to use it to put pressure on countries east of Vienna. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Grushko said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, in an interview with Kommersant. According to him, Russia is not conducting any consultations with the OSCE/ODIHR regarding their refusal to send observers to...

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Fadeev: “Foreign interference began two months before the State Duma elections”

Western structures are already presenting the upcoming elections to the State Duma as virtually illegitimate. Chairman of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation Valery Fadeev stated this in an interview with Izvestia, answering a question about foreign interference in the upcoming State Duma elections. “Such facts already exist. For example, the OSCE/ODIHR will not come to observe the elections in September. And, in fact...

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OSCE double standards. Russia refused to play by someone else's rules

Yesterday, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) announced that their observers will not come to the September elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation. The formal reason is that the ODIHR was not satisfied with the number of observers, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. At the same time, Deputy Speaker of the Russian State Duma Pyotr Tolstoy expresses bewilderment at this approach. “In the USA and Kazakhstan they had 20...

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