The ruling United Russia party is widely...
in Russia"s lower house of parliament, the State Duma.They were challenged by liberal opposition party Right Cause in the Voronezh and Ryazan Regions, and Russia"s Patriots party in the Ryazan and Kaluga Regions and the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area, but those parties did not seem to have cleared the 7% threshold.
At last year"s regional elections held on October 11, opposition parties claimed electoral fraud after the ruling United Russia party won by a landslide, following which President Dmitry Medvedev said the country needed tighter supervision to ensure fair voting.
MOSCOW, March 15 (RIA Novosti)
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