Talk:Elections in Russia

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Term Limits Incorrect?

The second sentence of this article seems to be wrong -"The president is elected for, at most, two consecutive six-year terms by the people (raised from four years from December 2008)."

This statement is at odds with the explanation of Russia's term limits in the Wikipedia article titled "President of Russia."

In the "President of Russia" article under "Selection process - Eligibility" it says:

"The Constitution of Russia contains a modified form of term limits on holders of the office: it does not limit the total number of terms that a President may serve, but places a limit on the number of successive terms (a person can hold office as President for two consecutive terms, but then is ineligible to serve again until sitting out one complete term)."

Does anyone know which it is? Putin's reign would suggest that the latter is true. I think it's important to be correct considering the current interest in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Anyone up to the task of researching in order to correct the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.254.35.66 (talk) 17:52, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

"Generally fair"? Not likely. See Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Five Myths About Russia's Elections, or any of a wealth of other sources about how Russian democracy has been undermined. TheRuss 21:15, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Russian elections are mostly fair. the main objectiosn that observers haev is theThe occasionally aggressive media cmapains employed by the party in Kremlin so that it makes such opposition parties less successful. This is mainly ab a disagreement that held by forigners. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Smith Jones (talk • contribs) 16:10, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
 * They're obviously not fair: vote-rigging/ballot-stuffing; intimidation of the opposition; no media coverage of the opposition; and oppressive 'laws' to stop effective information gathering to check if fraud is going on during elections.Malick78 (talk) 22:05, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Detailed section on laws needed
Russian elections have some strange laws (which may be intended to stop effective gathering of information regarding fraud) - we should have a section on them. For example:


 * Russian law forbids the publishing of electoral polls and research within 5 days of an election.

Possible copyright problem
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Election results
Does anyone know how detailed election results are published in Russia? Lettonica (talk) 13:56, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
 * In principle, for every election and every electoral constituency the number of ballots for each candidate is published, like this, however, the website of the Central Electoral Committee is not user friendly, and I am not sure it is easy to get all this info on one page.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:09, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
 * First of all, thank you for spending some time answering my question. Well, I do not read Russian, but do understand, that some election results on their website is sorted by jurisdictions. I would like to know in specific, whether it is possible to see votes from abroad? Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\Work 17:20, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Since I am writing this from the Netherlands, I guess the answer is yes.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:30, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Or do you mean votes cast abroad?--Ymblanter (talk) 17:30, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I mean votes from Russians abroad. Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\Work 20:03, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I could not find them easily. Obviously one can vote abroad only at federal elections, and the poll stations are attached to one of the regional electoral committees, somewhere in Moscow. I tried to fins the results for the 2012 presidential elections, spent 10 minutes and failed. Sorry.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:16, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

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=New changes to be implemented=

New edits will be implemented:    -The section "regional elections"will be worked upon, with articles by Panov and Ross, Golosov,  and Slider :

Panov, P. and Ross, C. (2013). Sub-National Elections in Russia: Variations in United Russia's Domination of Regional Assemblies. Europe-Asia Studies, 65(4), pp.737-752.

Slider, D. (1996). Elections to Russia's Regional Assemblies. Post-Soviet Affairs, 12(3), pp.243-264.

Golosov, G. (2003). Electoral Systems and Party Formation in Russia. Comparative Political Studies, 36(8), pp.912-935.

Referencing will be adjusted for all sections. Legality of the elections will also be covered with regards: suffrage, district magnitude, and candidate laws. Moreover, a new section on how the election is organised will also be created as a sub-section.

Election-relative article arrangement
If anyone is going to improve article, please do so by providing election-relative section arrangements. AXO NOV (talk) ⚑ 11:03, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Russia is no longer a hybrid regime
At the bottom of the introductory section, it's cited that political scientists consider Russia to be a hybrid regime that combines democratic and authoritarian institutions. This is no longer seriously considered by political academics. CracksInTheFloor (talk) 22:02, 19 January 2023 (UTC)