Russia is voting

Posted on December 1st, 2007 Jack No comments  Print This Post

And nobody’s watching. Well, almost. See this BBC report.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has abandoned its plans to send a big team of election observers to Russia after accusing the Russian government of imposing unacceptable restrictions and of deliberately delaying the issuing of visas. Russia has denied the claims.

Only a much smaller group of MPs from the OSCE’s parliamentary assembly will be in attendance.

That means just 400 foreign monitors will cover 95,000 polling stations.

Apparently Other Russia is not on the ballot.