Russia Jails Election-Rigging Watchdog
May 21, 2025
May 21, 2025
WASHINGTON, May 21 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis posted the following news:
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Russia Jails Election-Rigging Watchdog
Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of Golos, the country's sole independent election watchdog, was jailed for five years on May 14 and barred from "engaging in public activity" for nine years under laws targeting "undesirable organisations." He has already spent nearly two years in prison awaiting trial, w . . .
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Russia Jails Election-Rigging Watchdog
Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of Golos, the country's sole independent election watchdog, was jailed for five years on May 14 and barred from "engaging in public activity" for nine years under laws targeting "undesirable organisations." He has already spent nearly two years in prison awaiting trial, w . . .