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Why Russia's Last Independent Election Monitor Mattered to the World

Moscow Times 11 Jul 2025
After 25 years of work, Russia’s only independent election monitoring organization, Golos, is sadly no more ... Perhaps most importantly, Golos trained hundreds of thousands of election monitors across the country.
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Russia main election monitor closes amid crackdown

Arab News 08 Jul 2025
Updated 2 min 25 sec ago. AFP. July 08, 2025 08.37. .
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Russia's top independent election monitor Golos shuts down

Deutsche Welle 08 Jul 2025
The leading independent election observer in Russia, Golos, has announced its closure after 25 years of monitoring the country's elections. The decision comes after the group's co-chair was sent to a penal colony ... .
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Russia’s main election monitor closes amid crackdown

The Hindu 08 Jul 2025
Golos said it had "no choice" but to end its activity after the sentencing as it put its participants "at risk" ....
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Election Monitoring and Legal Space Development: Mikhail Mishustin Noted IPA CIS Work (IPA CIS - Interparliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States)

Public Technologies 02 Jul 2025
) ... He also noted the activities of the IPA CIS, which include monitoring elections and preparing decisions aimed at developing the legal space of the Commonwealth ... Attachments Original document Permalink. Disclaimer ... (noodl. 125183763) .
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INTERNATIONAL ELECTION MONITORING TEAM TO PRESENT FINDINGS ON SOUTH KOREA'S JUNE 3 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

PR Newswire 24 Jun 2025
The monitoring delegation, operating under the name International Election Monitoring Team (IEMT), includes former senior officials from the Trump administration and prominent experts ... Congress, and global election monitoring bodies.
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State funds Bridgeport elections monitors through 2026

Ctpost 22 Jun 2025
Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas believes intentional rule-breaking is being curtailed and bad habits broken due to high-profile criminal investigations and the monitors ... .
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Russia Must Immediately Release Election Monitor Grigory Melkonyants: UN Special Rapporteur

Scoop 22 May 2025
Melkonyants was sentenced to five years in prison by the Basmanny Court of Moscow for his peaceful work defending electoral integrity and human rights in Russia ... .
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UN expert calls for release of incarcerated Russia election monitor

Jurist 22 May 2025
Melkonyants’ arrest was centered on his involvement with the Golos movement, an election watchdog, which is considered to be a “foreign agent”.
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Conviction of independent election monitor in Russia undermines human rights and democratic standards, OSCE human rights office says (OSCE - Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe)

Public Technologies 16 May 2025
... Melkonyants, co-chair of the independent Russian election monitoring group Golos, to five years in a penal colony, alongside a nine-year ban on public activities, after a verdict by a Moscow court.
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Russia convicts prominent election monitoring activist in a case widely seen as political, hands him ...

Daily Advance 14 May 2025
Russia convicts prominent election monitoring activist in a case widely seen as political, hands him 5-year prison term ... .
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