Of all the awful, idiotic, dangerous and/or cruel ideas that have come down through the right wing noise machine, competition is high for the most damaging. But it seems we may have a winner: Brexit. As The Guardian reports: While negotiating [the UK] exit from the EU, the government repeatedly promised that environmental protections would not be eroded. — Read the rest
The BBC’s Russia editor Steve Rosenberg takes a look at what the papers are saying – and showing.
Vladimir Putin claimed his fifth term as President of Russia with a landslide, faced with three other candidates. The preliminary results give him more than 87% of the vote after 99,43% of ballolts have been processes, Nikolai Kharitonov of the Communist Party of the Russian is second with 4.32% of the votes, followed by the …
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Russian president uses victory speech to say war in Ukraine and strengthening military will be his main tasksVladimir Putin has claimed a landslide victory in Russia’s presidential vote, as thousands in the country and around the world protested against his deepening dictatorship, the war in Ukraine and a stage-managed election that could have only one winner.In a vote denounced by the United States as “obviously not free nor fair”, Putin won 87% of the vote, according to exit polling published...
From the hush of isolated Siberian villages to the clamor of big cities to war battered towns in occupied parts of Ukraine, Russians voted in a presidential election overwhelmingly dominated by Vladimir Putin.
Around 50 protesters have been arrested in Russian cities on the final day of a vote set to confirm Vladimir Putin in office. Long queues formed outside polling stations, heeding a call to gather in protest. The call came from the wife of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died suddenly last month at a penal colony above the Arctic Circle. We hear from a member of President Putin's United Russia party.Also on the programme: One resident's story of living in Iceland's volcano zone; and how the...
Vladimir Putin’s fifth term as Russian president is guaranteed. Opposition leaders have been imprisoned, exiled, and killed. Criticism of Putin and the war in Ukraine has been outlawed. Only rubber-stamped candidates appear on the ballot. Russia’s presidential election is a farce. But that didn’t stop critics of Putin from showing up at the polls in […]
Nearly 80 Russian voters were present at the Hanoi-based polling station at 10:00 am to cast their ballots
With November's election approaching, voters should be vigilant of generative AI's role in spreading misinformation and enabling election fraud. Here's how to spot AI content during the election season.
Lyudmila Navalnaya had filed a claim of improper medical care against the Russian penal colony.
The Russian Embassy in Helsinki's official results suggest one in three Russian nationals in Finland voted for Vladimir Putin in the presidential election.