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Newsletter Archive April 14, 2026🔴 Kremlin scales back plans to bring 100 war veterans into State Duma | The new old CEC | Political economy dimension of the municipal reform February 23, 2026🔴 Report: Pressure on journalists and media | State Duma campaign has begun | Russian opposition in PACE | Anti-corruption investigations February 18, 2026🔴 Report: Pressure on journalists and media | State Duma campaign has begun | Russian opposition in PACE | Anti-corruption investigations December 29, 2025🔴 Crackdown on Yabloko party | Are war veterans becoming a new elite? | Kremlin shelves mass e-voting ahead of Duma elections October 31, 2025🔴 Results of 2025 regional elections | Operation “Legitimacy” in Irkutsk | Experts: Election commissions blatantly falsified final protocols September 15, 2025🔴 Statement on Russian regional elections 2025 September 12, 2025🔴 Three-Day Voting Began in Russia September 9, 2025🔴 Russia amends electoral legislation ahead of September vote | The dangerous job of governor | Resistance to municipal reform July 31, 2025🔴 Consequences of ‘Golos’ shutdown | Municipal reform’s early impact | Redistricting ahead of 2026 State Duma elections July 9, 2025🔴 'Golos' is ceasing operations after co-chair’s jailing May 14, 2025🔴 Grigory Melkonyants sentenced to five years in jail April 17, 2025🔴 Anti-war repression in numbers | Kremlin dismantles local self-government | Authoritarian experiment in Vologda | ‘Foreign agent filter’ explained February 18, 2025🔴 One year since Navalny’s death | Report: Freedom of speech in 2024 | Municipal reform | Kremlin leverages e-voting ahead of parliamentary elections January 14, 2025🔴 Political review of 2024 | Who funds United Russia? | Financial transparency of parties hits new low | Russia retrains war veterans as teachers November 11, 2024🔴 War participants face major defeat in elections | Honorary pension for Ukrainian elites | CPRF: Does the “party of the past” have a future? September 10, 2024🔴 Statement on the results of the regional elections of 6-8 September 2024 September 8, 2024🔴 Express review of the second voting day 7 September | Results of media monitoring September 7, 2024🔴 Express review of the first voting day 6 September September 6, 2024🔴 Voting underway | Women in Russian politics | Kaliningrad before E-day | Why does Kremlin create an illusion of contest in predictable elections? September 3, 2024🔴 Election week | Who rules Russian regions | Do systemic parties have a future? | The meaning of clandestine electoral campaigns August 23, 2024🔴 One year since Melkonyants’ arrest | The main intrigue of September elections | St. Petersburg governor is running a fake campaign July 31, 2024🔴 Moscow Mayor's Office wants a quiet campaign | Interviews with opposition candidates | Election update IX June 17, 2024🔴 "SMO veterans" failed United Russia primaries | Parties in a coma | When did it all go so horribly wrong? Opposition turns to introspection May 15, 2024🔴 Russian expatriate voting: Generational divides, gender gap and electoral manipulations May 7, 2024🔴 The new Kadyrov | Evolution of the law on 'undesirable' organizations | Fall 2024 elections April 11, 2024🔴 Russian opposition at a strategic impasse | 40k votes fabricated for Putin in Cyprus | Civic resistance on the voting days March 20, 2024🔴 22 million fake votes for Vladimir Putin explained March 18, 2024🔴 Statement on the Russian presidential vote 2024 March 17, 2024🔴 Results of first and second voting days | Presidential election 2024 March 15, 2024🔴 Analysis: Russia uses social media as a major campaigning tool in its presidential election March 14, 2024🔴 Presidential vote starts tomorrow | How authorities allure citizens to the polls | Opposition mobilizes its supporters for protest vote March 7, 2024🔴 Vladislav Davankov – a new hope for the opposition? | Results of candidates registration | How voter signatures collection works in Russia February 20, 2024🔴 In Memoriam: Alexei Navalny (1976–2024) February 4, 2024🔴 Boris Nadezhdin submits bid to run for president and faces disqualification | Does the opposition have a chance? February 2, 2024🔴 Statement on Russia's designation of REM as an 'undesirable organization' January 22, 2024🔴 Putin’s campaign is rigged from the start | Dissent of mothers and wives December 22, 2023🎄 Free elections post-Putin: Not a cure-all | Is resistance at polls possible in 2024? | Grigory Melkonyants’ interview from detention December 14, 2023🔴 Putin's presidential bid | Alternative presidential candidates | How Russian opposition is preparing for the 2024 vote November 23, 2023🔴 Presidential campaign has started | Opposition coalition | How officials are preparing for Vladimir Putin's re-election October 23, 2023🔴 The role of sham elections for Putin’s regime | E-voting as a black box | Pro-peace candidates won mandates | What to anticipate from 2024 campaign September 12, 2023Webinar on election results starts in 2 hours | Elections 2023 appear even less free and fair than before. Key observations September 10, 2023⏳Voting is coming to an end | Webinar on election results | Overview of election campaign | Spoilers and doppelgängers | Opportunities for opposition September 9, 2023⚡Voting is underway | The degradation of party system continues | Specifics of Russian parliamentarism | ‘Vertical of power’ | Invitation to webinar August 29, 2023Elections in the occupied territories | Electoral amendments favor United Russia | No competition for gubernators August 18, 2023🔴 Co-chair of Russian election watchdog Golos detained ahead of elections August 16, 2023Errata: Are changes in Russia possible? | "Just Russia" withdraws regional candidates | And how to interpret surveys originating from today's Russia August 15, 2023Are changes in Russia possible? | "Just Russia" withdraws regional candidates | And how to interpret surveys originating from today's Russia April 24, 2023Online voting system lacks certification | Electoral law is adapted for the war | 40% of polling stations in Moscow will evaporate into the Cloud March 30, 2023Kremlin repackages Putin | First elections after mobilisation | On the death of Putin's election fixer March 23, 2023Four wise monkeys of Russia | Monitoring of the Monitors | The doomed Code February 17, 2023Nonhuman half of online warmongers | E-voting in the Constitutional Court | 10 years of EPDE January 16, 2023Bulldozed by online voting | Unelectable essence of fascism | Electoral myth dispelled by war | UN: election observers are human rights defenders November 1, 2022Russian Elections Update: Serfs of the State | Electoral daredevils | House searches of observers | Unknown will of the voters September 12, 2022Russian Elections Update: First Wartime Main E-Day is over | Polls importance | Day by day September 2, 2022Russian Elections Update: the true ruling party in Russia | Authorities afraid of the harmless | Second Putin's defeat on the Second Front August 17, 2022Russian Elections Update: Moscovites' representatives hold the ground I Vice-mayor's final touches I The elections: silenced and atomized August 15, 2022Russian Elections Update: Moscovites' representatives hold the ground I Vice-mayor's final touches I The elections: silenced and atomized June 24, 2022Russian Elections Update: Ukrainian observers discuss pseudo-referenda I Vice-mayor unclothes fraud I Russian elections assume close formation June 23, 2022Russian Elections Update: Ukrainian observers discuss pseudo-referenda I Vice-mayor unclothes fraud I Russian elections assume close formation May 6, 2022Russian Elections Update: The real hard life of foreign agents I Electoral Special Operation I Oppostion in anguish February 11, 2022Russian Elections Update: Regime's 'Fortress' strategy I Moscow 2022 elections I League of Voters liquidation February 1, 2022Russian Elections Update: Upcoming elections in Russia I Credentials of the Russian PACE delegation January 7, 2022Russian Elections Update: Statements of Memorial and OVD-Info on the liquidation of Memorial I Repressive laws of 2021 December 23, 2021Russian Elections Update: Russia is liquidating the League of Voters I Why and how Navalny's regional coordinators have left December 10, 2021Russian Elections Update: Golos' observer undercover in the Civic Chamber I United Russia misappropriates funds I Discriminatory 'Foreign agents' law November 19, 2021Russian Elections Update: Golos' Statement in Support of Memorial I Preparing for Moscow elections I Voting in Bashkiria I Statement on online voting November 4, 2021Russian Elections Update: Persecutions for election crimes I How United Russia got the majority in Leningrad oblast I Elections in Kuban by Shpilkin October 22, 2021Russian Elections Update: CPRF candidates face pressure I One-fifth of State Duma deputies give up their mandates October 8, 2021Russian Elections Update: First online voting audit I 'Map of Violations' overview I 'Golos' statement on designating its members 'foreign agents' September 29, 2021Russian Elections Update: First statistical analysis I Reactions to online voting I Ranking of regions by the level electoral fraud September 21, 2021Russian Elections Update: Preliminary election observation conclusions I Overview of the Second Voting Day September 18, 2021Russian Elections Update: Overview of the First Voting Day I Campaign monitoring findings September 15, 2021Russian Elections Update: 'Map of Violations' update I Voting on the occupied Ukrainian territories I Social media monitoring update September 9, 2021Russian Elections Update: 'Map of Violations' Update I Analysis of candidate registration for federal and regional September elections September 2, 2021Russian Elections Update: Social media monitoring findings I 'Map of Violations' Update I How United Russia plans to win September elections August 27, 2021Russian Elections Update: Candidate registration outcomes I Consequences of the ‘law against the Anti-Corruption Foundation’ I Observation findings August 20, 2021Russian Elections Update: Statement of 'Golos' I Observation findings I Regional elections I Main Russian Political Parties. Part 4: Just Russia August 12, 2021Russian Elections Update: Open Appeal of the 'Golos' Movement I Violation reports I Main Russian Political Parties. Part 3: LDPR August 5, 2021Russian Elections Update: No OSCE Observation I Media accreditation rules change | Violation reports | Main Russian Political Parties. Part 2: CPRF July 29, 2021Russian Elections Update: No public video broadcast from the polling stations | Main Russian Political Parties. Part 1: United Russia July 16, 2021Russian Elections Update: How the election law was changed before the 2021 elections | The state of Russian media | Inactivity of State Duma lawmakers July 2, 2021Russian Elections Update: Who can and cannot run in 2021 State Duma elections - Lessons learned from using online voting in United Russia primaries June 24, 2021Russian Elections Update: Online voting testing report - Analysis of conditions for citizen election observation ahead of 2021 State Duma elections June 18, 2021Russian Elections Update: New restrictions on running in elections, Navalny's organizations deemed "extremist" June 10, 2021Russian Elections Update: United Russia primaries, implementation of the OSCE/ODIHR recommendations May 26, 2021Launch of "Russian Election Monitor" May 20, 2021Launch of "Russian Election Monitor"
