On Sunday, over 30 million people, nearly one-third of Russia's eligible voters, are expected to go to polling stations in 76 regions across the country. Some 6,000 elections are being held simultaneously. All polling data is being fed into the Central Elections Commissions' database. →
Over 6,200 local elections and referendums are being held in 76 Russian regions on the March 14 single election day, the ninth in the past few years. The voters’ lists embrace about 32 million eligible voters, or nearly one third of the country’s electorate. →
Today is a campaign-free day in Russia ahead of regional elections on Sunday. Russians are to vote in more than 6 thousand regional and municipal elections and referendums. According to election legislation, no campaigning is allowed ahead of the vote on Saturday, so that people could think clearly who to vote for. →
A "day of silence" is observed in Russia today ahead of regional elections. All pre-election campaigning is prohibited. The voters are granted 24 hours of ‘silence’ to help them make a conscious choice without any undue pressure. →
People in 76 Russian regions are going to the polls on Sunday in some six thousand regional and local elections and referendums. In eight regions, they will be electing regional assemblies, and in five, new Mayors of their provincial cities. →
The election to the regional bodies of government, due in Russia this coming Sunday, March 14 th , is expected to prove more liberal and democratic. The expectation has been voiced by all political parties with no seats in parliament, the parties that have attended a roundtable discussion of the forthcoming voting. →
The representatives of the Office for democratic institutions and human rights of OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) will attend the regional elections in Russia on March 14, ITAR-TASS reported Thursday citing Igor Borisov from the Central Election Commission. →
Russia welcomes the parliamentary elections in Iraq, Foreign Ministry's spokesman Andrei Nesterenko told a press conference in Moscow. He said it is important that representative of all political parties had taken part in the elections. →
The new "Stability and Reforms" coalition has been established in the Ukrainian Parliament. It comprises factions of the Party of Regions, the Communist Party and the Litvin Bloc, as well as a number of non-factional deputies. A total of 235 deputies of 450 are part of the new coalition, which ensures its legal capacity. →
Iraq ’s Independent High Electoral Commission has postponed announcing initial results from Sunday’s parliamentary election and will do this once 30 percent of the votes are counted. More than 6,000 candidates from parties and coalitions competed in the election. Iraq's overall turnout was 62 percent. →
Moscow hopes that the parliamentary election, just over in Iraq, will help achieve a comprehensive settlement in the country. The Russian Foreign Ministry’s official spokesman Andrei Nesterenko says he is content with the fact that all political forces and ethnic and religious communities of Iraq took part in the election. →
The Iraqi parliamentary election is over. By preliminary reports the turnout made up some 65%. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is in the lead in the Shia-populated areas, while his main rival, the leader of the Al-Iraqiya liberal-patriotic bloc Iyad Allawi is leading in the Sunni-populated regions. The vote count began on Sunday night right after the polling stations closed. →
Under a blanket of tight security designed to thwart insurgent attacks, Iraqis are voting in parliamentary elections, the second for a full term of parliament since the 2003 US-led invasion seven years, and the first since the start of the US troop pullout from the country. →
Under a blanket of tight security designed to thwart insurgent attacks, Iraqis went to the polls Sunday to choose from among more than 6,000 candidates vying for 325 seats in the country’s new parliament. →
In the presidential elections in Togo, the acting head of state Faure Gnassingbe has won the election. An appropriate statement made by the representatives of the Togolese electoral commission. →
The Iraqi Embassy to this country has confirmed the arrival of a Russian team to observe Iraq’s next parliamentary elections on the coming Sunday. There is a strong concurrent presence by Russian newspapers and networks. The general elections will be Iraq’s second in the period since the ouster of Saddam Hussein in 2003. →
The parliamentary elections have been held in Tajikistan. Unlike the previous elections in 2005 the new election went smoothly without any scandals, an official with the Central Election Commission said. According to him, the representatives of all 8 political parties registered in the country took part in the election and more than 90% of the electorate cast their votes. →
51% turnout has made the elections to the lower house of the Tajik parliament valued, the country’s Central Election Committee says. Eight political parties have been participating in the elections to a new parliament with 217 candidates. →
Voters in Tajikistan went to polling stations on Sunday to elect a new parliament with 217 candidates, most of them from the ruling People’s Democratic Party, contesting 63 deputy mandates in the lower house. →
The swearing in ceremony of Ukrainian new head of state, Victor Yanukovich has taken place at the Rada - the Ukrainian parliament after receiving the blessing of the Russian Patriarch Kirill, who travelled to Kiev at the invitation of Yanukovich. →