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Sochi Electoral Commission has "lost" documents of the top candidate of "YABLOKO - United Democrats"

Press Release

August 31, 2012

On August 29, Andrei Rudomakha, renowned environmentalist and leader of the YABLOKO - United Democrats list submitted all the required documents for registration in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar Region. The receipt of the documents was confirmed by the Commission. However, yesterday the web-site of the Electoral Commission published a list of candidates who had submitted their documents to the commission and Andrei Rudomakha was not in that list. Yet YABLOKO has got no answer from the Commission explaining this. The Krasnodar branch of YABLOKO will be investigating this sudden "loss" of documents.

Andrei Rudomakha, leader of the Krasnodar branch of YABLOKO and top candidate in the list of YABLOKO - United Democrats has been also nominated to run for the Sochi single-mandate electoral district No 48, where he should compete with Viktor Teplyakov, Sochi Deputy Secretary of the Political Council of the ruling United Russia party.

Elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar Territory will be held on October 14 and candidates nominated by an electoral bloc YABLOKO - United Democrats constitute the largest problem for the authorities. YABLOKO United Democratss list contains many civil activists well-known in the region for their fight against arbitrary rule and corruption in the federal and regional authorities, as well as new public activists. community leaders. YABLOKOs Andrei Rudomakha, Suren Ghazaryan and Eugeny Vitishko are topping the list.

"Possible election of these persons, as well as other well-known candidates from the YABLOKO - United Democrats list to the Krasnodar Territory Legislative Assembly is the major concern for the regional administration. There is no doubt that the administration will do everything to prevent them from participating in the elections. We have already observed this is a new forged criminal case against Suren Ghazaryan, who allegedly "threatened to murder" a guard of Putins cottage in the village Praskoveyevka. This is also manifested in the pressure exerted on Eugeny Vitishko, who has been under surveillance, noted Rudomakha.

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Regional and Municipal Elections 2011-2012

 

 

 


 

 

 

Press Release

August 31, 2012

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