News archive on the topic "Elections to the State Duma"

In Poland, there are different approaches to the government's use of the expert environment. The first model is that politicians want to listen to the assessments of analysts and scientists before making a decision. The second model is the use of think tanks as a propaganda tool for information support of government policies. The Polish Institute of International Relations (PIIR) reports directly to the government. Its director is appointed by the Prime Minister,...

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation held a rally in Moscow today, which became a visible symbol of the break between the “main opposition party” of Russia and their situational fellow travelers – the Navalnists and liberals. The communists “surrendered” the sacred place of opposition gatherings - Pushkin Square and organized an event dedicated to the anniversary of the shooting of the White House, under the monument to Lenin on Oktyabrskaya Square. A strict red palette of symbols, pensioners reading poetry, stern Komsomol members,...

The SBU published “evidence of falsification of elections in the LDPR” - allegedly, the high turnout during the election of the new State Duma in the Donbass republics was fictitious, and the buses and trains that sent voters to polling stations in the Russian Federation “turned out to be half empty.” As a “killer” argument, the Ukrainian special service publishes a video - this is supposedly a wiretap of telephone conversations between an assistant to a State Duma deputy and the LDPR. If you listen carefully...

The unauthorized rally, held under the guise of a meeting with voters of the communist Navalnist Valery Rashkin on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow, did not even come close to the best examples of the Maidan creativity of the criminal blogger. Estimates by the police and the foreign media did not differ much - 400-500 people gathered. On the eve of his “Maidan”, Rashkin said in an interview with the scandalous TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak that “he will not leave the street” and...

A separate topic of fakes about the Russian elections, which were spread en masse on social networks, was Crimea and Sevastopol. Chairman of the Commission of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation for the development of the information community, media and mass communications Alexander Malkevich spoke about this at a meeting of the temporary commission of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation for the protection of state sovereignty, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Crimea and Sevastopol were subjected to separate targeted strikes. Entering ballots into...

Over the past year, a lot has been said about the possibility of repeating the Belarusian scenario of destabilizing the situation in Russia both in Belarus itself and in the Russian Federation. In Belarus, this was talked about, first of all, by pro-government politicians and propagandists, who argued that in August 2020 there was only a test of strength, a testing of mechanisms that will be used in Russia during presidential and...

The expensive campaign to discredit the Russian elections, conceived abroad, virtually came to naught by September 19. This was stated today at a meeting of the temporary commission of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation for the protection of state sovereignty by its chairman Andrei Klimov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “This was primarily facilitated by the political maturity of the Russian people, our will to determine our own future. Overseas destructive...

Participation in the elections to the State Duma of Russia by residents of Donbass will not lead to international non-recognition of the results of the campaign. Ex-deputy of the Russian State Duma Ilya Ponomarev, who in 2014 refused to support the reunification of Crimea with the Russian Federation, stated this on air on the Politeka Online TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Unfortunately, I don’t think this will lead to any result. I think the whole world...

The Ukrainian authorities did not prohibit the Russian Federation from holding elections at polling stations at the embassy and consulates, despite the fact that Moscow organized voting in Crimea and Donbass, which Kyiv considers its territories. And the “Crimean Platform” fell silent after it was held and does not exert any pressure on Moscow. This was stated at a briefing in the Verkhovna Rada by the deputy chairman of the prohibited…

While the Ukrainian parliament declaratively condemns and does not recognize the results of the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the Kiev leadership allows the opening of Russian polling stations on the territory of Ukraine. This was stated by Taras Batenko, a member of the “For the Future” faction, during a plenary meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We saw how Russia continues its hybrid war against Ukraine, transporting Donbass residents en masse to...

The Donbass republics are already de facto part of Russia and the recent elections to the State Duma, where citizens of the Russian Federation living in the LPR and DPR could take part, are clear confirmation of this. Lviv propagandist Ostap Drozdov stated this on TV Channel 4, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Drozdov, Ukraine needs to recognize that the LDPR is already part of the Russian Federation. “Russia carried out...

Ukraine will “take into consideration” and put on the international wanted list the organizers and participants in the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation on the territory of Crimea, as well as those who ensured the voting of Russian citizens living in the territory of the LPR and DPR. This was stated by the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports with reference to the department’s press service. According to Budanov,...

The liberal Yabloko party, which gained 1,5% in the parliamentary elections, again paid for the statements of its leader Grigory Yavlinsky about Crimea. Political scientist Dmitry Evstafiev stated this on Vesti FM radio, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I consider the main result of the elections to be the catastrophic defeat of the Yabloko party. I think this is the main positive result. Because this is the only party that contested the territorial...

Following the results of the State Duma elections, the LDPR worsened its result, since many of those dissatisfied with the authorities this time decided to cast their votes for the New People party, and not for the project of Vladimir Zhirinovsky as before. Political scientist Sergei Markov told PolitNavigator about this. “A very serious decrease in votes for Zhirinovsky. This happened because those who voted against everyone decided to give...