Million people 'invented' for Russian election
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By Helen Womack in Moscow
11 September 2000
Ballot papers were burnt, voters bullied and entire electorates invented in large-scale fraud
perpetrated during Russia's presidential election in March, The Moscow Times newspaper has
claimed. In its weekend edition, the respected English-language daily said its journalists had
gathered enough evidence to question the legitimacy of the vote that brought Vladimir Putin, an
obscure former KGB agent, to the pinnacle of power.
The defeated Communist Party candidate, Gennady Zyuganov, complained at the time that he had been
robbed of the chance to go into a second round against Mr Putin. And observers from the Organisation
for Security and Cooperation in Europe, while finding the elections on the whole "democratic and a
step forward for Russia", spoke of abuses. However, the newspaper's inquiry, carried out over the
last six months, was the most far-reaching and hard-hitting critique of the poll on 26 March.
Perhaps the most startling discovery, it said, was that 1.3 million new voters had appeared
between the State Duma elections on 19 December 1999 and the presidential election just over three
months later. These were not "dead souls", as described in Nikolai Gogol's famous novel of that name,
but "new-born souls" who were given the vote. Not only were children listed as adults but also
corrupt officials added fictional floors to multi-storey apartment buildings and had their occupants
vote for Mr Putin.
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Ragnar
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> Million people 'invented' for Russian election
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the time that he had been
> robbed of the chance to go into a second round against Mr Putin.
Kind of ironic, the Communist Party candidate complaining about dirty
elections.
roninart
"Ragnar" <rwo...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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There is something here that has to be understood. In a communist country
the elections are made to replace communist among themselves, in a
Capitalist country we replace capitalist men. Neither side accepts the other
to interfere.
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