Russia's 'Potemkin Village' Elections
Category: WORLDPOST
The new, preliminary report on the Sept. 14, 2014, elections in Russia, prepared by the independent Russian electoral rights group Golos, describes in bewildering detail how vote manipulation is carried out. In St. Petersburg, it says, "all known illegal techniques were used" against opposition and even rival pro-government candidates.
By Jill Dougherty, ContributorWoodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Public Polic..., 2014-09-30