{"id":5298,"date":"2014-09-15T12:32:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T18:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/?p=5298"},"modified":"2014-09-15T12:34:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T18:34:36","slug":"who-controls-the-wstern-media-russia-holds-record-breaking-elections-across-the-country-why-in-west-no-one-reports-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/?p=5298","title":{"rendered":"Who controls the western media? Russia holds record-breaking elections across the country – Why in West no one reports about it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Russia holds record-breaking elections across the country,\u00a0German media<\/h1>\n

Welt.de, n-tv.de, FAZ.net, Sueddeutsche.de do not care to report.<\/h1>\n

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Published time: September 14, 2014 20:08<\/span><\/p>\n
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RIA Novosti\/Maria Sibiryakova<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Election<\/a>, Politics<\/a>, Russia<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Local and regional election took place across Russia on Sunday as millions went to the polling stations to elect 30 governors, 14 regional parliaments, three mayors and thousands of municipal assemblies, including Moscow’s City Duma.<\/p>\n

A record number of 75 million eligible voters were registered this year for the single election day on Sunday, according to the election commission chairman Leonid Ivlev.<\/p>\n

The elections at all levels were held in all Russian regions except in the republic of Ingushetia. Thirty Russian regions elected their heads and governors, 14 regions elected legislative assemblies, while three administrative centers of Russian regions elected their mayors.<\/p>\n

For the first time the elections were held in Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, which joined Russia in March after the majority of Crimean residents voted to secede from Ukraine at a regional referendum. The regional election commission head said that 45 percent of registered voters at the peninsula had cast their ballots as of 6 pm local time (2 pm GMT).<\/p>\n

\"Sevastopol<\/p>\n

Sevastopol (RIA Novosti\/Vasily Batanov)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In general the voter turnout was rather low. In Russia\u2019s capital Moscow the turnout was registered at some 18 percent by 6 pm local time (2 pm GMT). For the first time 45 MPs from eight political parties instead of the usual 35 members were elected to the Moscow City Duma.<\/p>\n

However in some regions the turnout exceeded 50 percent. A high turnout was reported at the governor elections in Orel, Samara and Tyumen regions, and in elections of heads of the republics of Komi and Kalmykia. The highest turnout \u2013 over 60 percent – was registered at elections to legislative assemblies in the republics of Tyva, Tatarstan, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia.<\/p>\n

\"Novosibirsk<\/p>\n

Novosibirsk Region (RIA Novosti\/Alexandr Kryazhev)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Preliminary results showed the dominance of the parties and candidates supporting the ruling United Russia party. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said he was content with the Sunday results.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnited Russia had shown a very good result,<\/em>\u201d he said at videoconference at the party\u2019s headquarters in Moscow on Sunday. \u201cI think the voter turnout demonstrated the interest for elections in the conditions of the current actual political competition<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The elections had been held in a \u201cserious competitive landscape<\/em>,\u201d he said adding that \u201cin the current conditions, when the turnout is not very high, our party is capable of mobilizing the electorate<\/em>,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n

\"Moscow<\/p>\n

Moscow (RIA Novosti\/Artem Zhitenev)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The country\u2019s Central Election Commission said it received no complaints during the All-Russian Election Day.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot a single complaint,<\/em>\u201d Ivlev said on Sunday evening though adding that the commission had received 140 calls most of which had been questions. \u201cAs many as 41 calls reported possible violations in the activities of election commissions,\u201d<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n

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