Russia’s 2025 regional elections show a systemic pattern: voter coercion, manipulated turnout, pressure on monitors, abuse of home voting.
With no independent oversight, the process is designed to secure the desired result, not reflect voters’ will. www.russian-election-monitor.org/statement-on...

⚡BREAKING: Russia’s GOLOS movement for voters’ rights has ceased to exist after the conviction of its co-chair Grigory Melkonyants.

“Persecution of observers is another step to undermine the country’s constitutional foundations.”

Full statement in Russian: www.golosinfo.org/articles/155396

❗️The Kremlin won't kill off local self-gov directly — it’ll use governors.

Political analyst Andrey Pertsev says reform will spare key regions (like Tatarstan), but be forced through elsewhere despite protests. Putin’s new law paves the way.

📎 Read more at REM website: shorturl.at/vZ4tE

⚡️ Golos co-chair Grigory Melkonyants was asked for 6 years in prison on charges of organizing the activities of an undesirable organization.

Closing arguments are underway at the court in Moscow. Melkonyants will also deliver his final statement.

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🚨 Russia's 2026 Duma Elections: Manipulation Already in Full Swing 🚨

The latest Russian Election Monitor update exposes how the #Kremlin is reshaping the electoral system to tighten its grip on power, while Duma elections are still 18 months away.

www.russian-election-monitor.org/election-upd...

Support Grigory Melkonyants’ Legal Defense!

Russian election watchdog Golos is raising funds for its jailed co-chair, Grigory Melkonyants, detained since August 2023 on political charges.

Every donation matters! Share & spread the word!💙
#FreeMelkonyants

💳 Donate from outside Russia: ruhelps.org

5 Years Ago, the State Duma Reset Putin’s Presidential Terms

United Russia MP Valentina Tereshkova proposed the amendments, Putin supported them.
In summer 2020, after a referendum with violations, Russia’s Constitution changed, letting Putin stay 12 more years.

Here is the text of the amendments:

🤡 Elections à la russe:

A fake candidate—the mayor’s driver’s wife—accidentally won the election, refused to take office, and sued the council that elected her. This could be the first time in Russian history that an elected candidate sues their own voters.

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📷: Kommersant

Critical state of freedom of speech in Russia – Mass Media Defense Centre’s 2024 report:

📌 More journalists/media labeled "foreign agents"
📌 Rise in criminal & admin cases against journalists
📌 Tighter control over social media & independent news

Key findings & full report 🔗: tinyurl.com/2tpfcwpu

More Russians support peace talks – January 2025 Levada Center poll.
"The highest recorded share of respondents—61%—now believe peace negotiations should begin, while 31% say military action should continue (the lowest figure ever recorded)" - Levada Center
Full report (Russian): shorturl.at/3n4de

Local self-gov in Russia: A soldier fighting against Ukraine elected head of a rural settlement—from the trenches.

Denis Tadyshev (#UnitedRussia) won in Altai while at war since Oct 2022. Already a district council deputy, he now governs the settlement "remotely".

🔗 www.kommersant.ru/doc/7496047

📢 A court in Moscow continues the case against Grigory Melkonyants, the co-chair of Russia’s leading election watchdog, Golos. He is accused of “organizing the activities of an undesirable organization”. @amnesty.org recognizes him a prisoner of conscience.
His story: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

🗳️ #Russia begins preparations for the regional #elections 2025 and State #Duma elections 2026.
Read REM's brief overview of key political trends and major electoral events of early 2025.

www.russian-election-monitor.org/election-upd...

#RussianElections

⚡ In the first 3 months of 2024, Russian authorities declared more organizations “undesirable” than in the full year of 2022.
⛔ The law on undesirable organizations was adopted in 2015. Read more about how this legislation is enforced these days. 👇
www.russian-election-monitor.org/an-undesirab...

📢 REM statement on the Russian presidential elections 2024 👇
The campaign took place in a situation where the fundamental articles of the Constitution guaranteeing political rights and freedoms were essentially invalid.
🔗 Read more
www.russian-election-monitor.org/statement-on...
#Russianelections

📢 Results of social media monitoring: Russia uses social media as a major campaigning tool in its presidential elections.
REM studied how the Kremlin's propaganda machine works.
👇 Read the full report, with graphs and data 👇
www.russian-election-monitor.org/russia-uses-...

🔴 Express review of election observation on 16-17 March.
-Mobilization of voters and coercion
-Anomalies in turnout
-Signs of possible fraud
-Vandalism at polling stations
-No public control of elections
-Voting in the occupied territories
#Russianpresidentialelection
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