Call for new Moscow poll after votes 'disappear'.Summary: A Russian Russian associated in some way with Russia. Russian blue a breed of cats with short, dense, silver-tipped blue-colored coat and vivid green eyes. opposition leader has said he will take legal action to demand that disputed Moscow city elections be held again. A Russian opposition leader has said he will take legal action to demand that disputed Moscow city elections be held again. It comes after he discovered his own vote had not been counted in the October 11 polls. Opposition lawmakers last week briefly walked out of parliament in a challenge to the results, which have been endorsed by the Central Electoral Commission Electoral Commission (1877) Commission created to resolve the disputed 1876 presidential election between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden. Tilden had won the popular vote and was only one electoral vote short of victory, but the Republicans and President Dmitry Medvedev Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (Russian: Дмитрий Анатольевич Медведев; born September 14, 1965 in Leningrad), is a Russian as fair overall. "Our goal is to force a full cancellation of the results of the election and the appointment of a new date for polling. We will make all the efforts to reach this," said Sergei Mitrokhin, the leader of the small, pro-western Yabloko party. Mitrokhin said the fact that no votes for his party had been recorded at his polling station meant neither his own vote nor that of his wife could have been counted on election day. They were subsequently found in a recount. Russia's ruling party, United Russia United Russia (Yedinaya Rossiya, Russian Единая Россия; the more correct translation is Unified Russia , crushed opposition parties in the local elections held across much of Russia, with the results for the Moscow region handing Putin's party more than 90 percent of its seats. Yabloko lost its Moscow representation completely. Medvedev has repeatedly promised greater democracy and pluralism pluralism, in philosophy, theory that considers the universe explicable in terms of many principles or composed of many ultimate substances. It describes no particular system and may be embodied in such opposed philosophical concepts as materialism and idealism. in his speeches but opposition politicians and independent analysts say the tightly controlled political system is squeezing out the last pockets of dissent An explicit disagreement by one or more judges with the decision of the majority on a case before them. A dissent is often accompanied by a written dissenting opinion, and the terms dissent and dissenting opinion are used interchangeably. . Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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