| 2011-12-15 17:08 Don't provoke protesters, ex-minister Kudrin tells Putin |
Russia’s ex-finance minister Alexei Kudrin criticized on Thursday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s remarks regarding the white ribbons worn by protesters at recent nationwide rallies against alleged electoral fraud.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday said a European Parliament resolution calling for new State Duma elections “means nothing.” 
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"Undemocratic" elections in Russia · 2007-12-04 14:43
European officials and vote monitors denounced Russia's parliamentary elections as an undemocratic exercise engineered by President Vladimir V. Putin and his party.
"Neither a free, fair nor democratic election," said a German government spokesman. "Steered democracy," said the Swedish foreign minister. "Not a level playing field," added the European observer mission.
After an intense and often surreal campaign that featured Putin as its star and almost sole player, voters delivered a landslide victory to his United Russia party, Boston Globe reports.
The victory at the polls was "a sign of trust," Putin said. "Russians will never allow the nation to take a destructive path, as happened in some other ex-Soviet nations."
With 98 percent of the votes tallied, United Russia was poised to capture more than 64 percent of the vote.
The results gave Putin's party more than two-thirds of the seats in the lower house, a large enough majority to amend the constitution without the support of other parties.
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