Navalny's registration for mayoral elections may be cancelled - electoral commissionAlexei Navalny, who is running for Moscow mayor, will be removed from the list of candidates if he is found guilty as charged in the Kirovles embezzlement case and the verdict comes into force before the elections.10:49 12.07.2013
Moscow City Hall sets snap mayoral election dateSnap elections for Moscow mayor will take place on September 8, City Hall announced on Friday. In a vote held Thursday night, 27 members of Moscow City Hall backed the proposed date, and only two voted against it.12:35 07.06.2013
New case opened against voters' rights associationThe Justice Ministry has opened a new administrative offense case against the Golos association in defense of voters' rights, the ministry reported on its website on Monday.15:09 13.05.2013
Complaints in the Bettencourt case to be heard on June 6The Bordeaux Court of Appeals on June 6 will hear the defendants' request to dismiss charges of taking advantage of the ill health of France's richest woman, L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt. The defendants include former President Nicolas Sarkozy and 11 other people.10:50 26.04.2013
Voters can contest election results in court - Constitutional CourtThe Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation held that voters have legal standing to contest the results of elections in court, according to an official announcement released Monday. The court has been reviewing the Civil Procedure Code as well as the federal laws on voting right guarantees.13:09 22.04.2013
New charges brought against former presidential candidate in ArmeniaNew charges have been brought against Armenian epic poetry expert and former presidential candidate Vardan Sedrakyan, who was arrested on charges of ordering the murder of another presidential candidate, head of the opposition Union for National Self-Determination Paruyr Hayrikyan.11:12 17.04.2013
OAS Secretary General calls for recount of Venezuelan presidential voteSecretary General of the Organization of American States Jose Miguel Insulza on Monday supported the opposition's call for a recount of all votes after the recent presidential election in Venezuela.10:56 16.04.2013
Student protesters injured in clash with Maduro's supporters in CaracasSeven people have been injured in a clash between Venezuela's government supporters and students who were protesting in one of the central squares in Caracas.11:18 09.04.2013
Anti-Kremlin figure Navalny sets sights on presidencyThe charismatic Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is due to stand trial later this month, has declared his ambition to run for presidency.12:22 05.04.2013
Regions receive right to cancel direct gubernatorial electionsPresident Vladimir Putin has signed a law granting Russia's regions the right not to hold direct gubernatorial elections.17:55 02.04.2013
Billionaire politician questions russian city electionsBillionaire-turned-politician Mikhail Prokhorov demanded on Monday a revote at the mayoral elections in the Moscow Region’s city of Zhukovsky, where a candidate from his party lost amid vote fraud allegations.10:41 02.04.2013
Early mayor elections in Moscow region marred by detentionsSixteen people were arrested in the town of Zhukovsky, southeast of Moscow, during the mayoral election on Sunday, the regional interior department said.12:28 01.04.2013
Estonia's constitutional commission speaks against direct presidential electionsThe Constitutional Commission of Estonia's parliament on Tuesday recommended parliament to reject the proposed amendment to the Constitution which introduces direct presidential elections.11:11 27.03.2013
Opposition party challenges results of Russian resort mayor pollsAn opposition party sought to declare invalid polls in the southern Russian resort city of Anapa, overwhelmingly won by a United Russia candidate.14:11 26.03.2013
Controversial US politician Michele Bachmann under investigationThe US Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) has launched a probe against former presidential hopeful and conservative Congresswoman Michele Bachmann amidst allegation of financial impropriety during the 2012 presidential campaign.13:48 26.03.2013
Sarkozy hopes to be cleared in the case of L'Oreal heiressFormer French President Nicolas Sarkozy has thanked all those who supported and trusted him on his Facebook page and expressed hope that "truth will prevail eventually."10:20 26.03.2013
Sarkozy under investigation over L’Oreal heiressFormer French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been charged with having exploited the 90-year-old heiress to the L’Oreal cosmetic fortune Liliane Bettencourt.09:30 22.03.2013
Report claims Russia’s Communist Party won 2011 pollsThe announcement of a report casting fresh doubt on the results of Russia’s 2011 parliamentary polls drew a dismissive response from the pro-Kremlin ruling party and the country’s top election official on Wednesday, while also causing a flurry of speculation about motives, as the study reportedly emerged from a think-tank headed by an official close to President Vladimir Putin.11:26 14.03.2013
Egyptian court cancels parliamentary electionsAn Egyptian administrative court has suspended the president's order to hold elections to the lower house of parliament scheduled for April 22 and has referred the recently adopted election law to the Supreme Constitutional Court.11:48 07.03.2013
Putin submits bill on mixed electoral system to State DumaPresident Vladimir Putin has submitted a bill on a mixed electoral system to the State Duma. The president's previous bill on this has been withdrawn, a parliament representative said.13:19 01.03.2013