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Bulgarian monitor Milan Bozhevich added:
"Everything was, well, transparent and open. Russia has opened a new page in history today -- there is a broadcast of the Russian elections all over the world."
Others made similar comments. Serbia's Tomislav Nikolich called it a "full level of democracy," what his country's elections lack.
One Dagestan polling station was troublesome. Instances of multiple voting occurred. In response, results were nullified. Russia's Interior Ministry reported no other serious violations.
At 5:30PM Moscow time (17.5 hours after polls opened in Russia's Far East), 86 complaints were received. In total after voting ended, 460 were registered. According to CEC's deputy chairman Stanislav Vavilov:
"We have information that hundreds of complaints have been written and will be submitted to the CEC in the near future. These complaints have been written in advance (prior to the March 4 poll)."
Washington's Manipulative Dirty Hands
National Endowment-funded Golos (a so-called independent NGO election monitor) alleged over 2,000 irregularities, including 900 in Moscow. Executive director Grigory Melkonyants claimed "massive serious violations." He's well paid to say it.
NED, its National Democratic Institute (NDI) arm, the International Republican Institute (IRI), and similar organizations function as destabilizing US foreign policy tools.
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