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MOSCOW (Reuters) ? For one evening last week, Fox News was among Russian television’s best sources of information on the swell of protest in Moscow against alleged fraud in a parliamentary election that handed victory to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s party. One of Russia’s state-controlled national television networks was quick to seize on the U.S. [...]
MOSCOW (Reuters) ? President Dmitry Medvedev ordered an investigation Sunday into allegations of fraud in Russia’s parliamentary election, one day after tens of thousands of protesters demanded it be annulled and rerun. Medvedev responded on his Facebook site to the protesters’ complaints that the December 4 election was slanted to favor of his and Prime [...]
Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev, right, speaks as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin listens during their meeting with supporters in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. Russia’s main independent election watchdog says prosecutors have opened a probe against the group suspecting it of breaking election laws just three days before the parliamentary vote. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, pool) [...]