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Are Russian Elections Rigged?: Opinion Polls Speak Louder Than Western Rhetoric
The notion that Russian elections are systemically rigged to keep the “party of power” in, well, power is so prevalent and accepted in journalistic, political, and academic discourse in the West that...
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A Quick Note On Russia’s Duma Elections 2011
On reading Western commentary on the upcoming Russian Duma elections, I realized that they can’t decide between two narratives: either the popularity of United Russia is sinking faster than Herman...
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All Opinion Polls Relevant To Russia’s 2011 Duma Elections
For now I’m just making the data available without commentary. Make of it what you will. Levada (18-21 Nov), VCIOM (19-20 Nov), and ISI (4-10 Nov) predictions of election results based on polls....
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What They Say After: The Post-Elections Polls
Citing evidence revolving around pre-elections opinion polls and exit polls, in my Al Jazeera article on the Russian Duma elections I made the argument that “the aggregate level of falsifications is...
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Measuring Churov’s Beard: The Mathematics Of Russian Election Fraud
In the aftermath of the 2011 Duma elections, the Russian blogosphere was abuzz with allegations of electoral fraud. Many of these were anecdotal or purely rhetorical in nature; some were more...
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List Of Estimates On Fraud In Russia’s 2011 Duma Elections
Despite Olga Kryshtanovskaya’s disapproval, I thought it would be interesting and useful to compile a comprehensive list of blogger, pundit and “expert” opinions on the extent of fraud in the 2011 Duma...
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Translation: Sergey Lukyanenko – I Will Vote For Putin
Courtesy of Evgeny‘s comment at Mark Adomanis’ blog, I found a very interesting piece by Sergey Lukyanenko – the bestselling Russian sci-fi writer best known for his Night Watch series, which was later...
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Seven Myths About The Russian Elections
Really now? Apart from direct falsifications, which were extensively discussed here, the other really big criticism of the Russian elections process is that it isn’t a level playing field. As said by...
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