In the last State Duma elections, Russia’s fledgling and sputtering democracy proved that it can hold reasonably free and fair elections – marred, though, by some corrupt practices, as John B. Dunlop found when he served as an election observer in the Russian province of Arkhangelsk23 February 1996 WHILE RUSSIAN VOTERS AND ELECtoral commissions are becoming further acquainted with the […]

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