Government Told To Refrain From Using Dirty Tricks Against Candidates

[Dover]

Corruption everywhere.....just look at the Russian mess:

RUSSIA: Govt told to refrain from using dirty tricks against other presidential candidates

MOSCOW - Sergei Glaziev, a presidential aspirant, whose signatures have yet to be verified by the Central Election Commission (CEC), have called on Russian authorities to stop using certain tactics, commonly referred to as “dirty technologies” against opponents in the March 14, presidential race.

The statement came in the wake of criminal charges filed on Feb. 5 against Ivan Rybkin, another presidential candidate and his supporters by the Nikulinsk Prosecutor’s Office on alleged falsification of signatures....

http://www.russiajournal.com/news/cnews-article.shtml?nd=42412

[Dover]

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Russian (Presidential) Candidate Disappears, Staff Says

A former national security chief planning to challenge President Vladimir Putin has been missing since Thursday, his campaign staff said Saturday. Hours earlier, the Central Elections Commission approved the presidential candidacy of liberal Ivan Rybkin, who has harshly criticized Putin.

Kseniya Ponomaryova, head of Rybkin's campaign group, told The Associated Press that Rybkin had been unreachable since late Thursday, but declined to give details.

The news agency Interfax also quoted Rybkin's wife as saying his relatives had not been able to contact him for two days....

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040207_964.html






ETC.

[Dover]

6. Rybkin (Putin rival) Missing for 3 Days, Police Start Search

Two days after being registered to run as a candidate against President Vladimir Putin in the March 14 election, Ivan Rybkin was officially declared missing Sunday.

But Boris Berezovsky, the politician's financial backer and the former gray cardinal of the Kremlin, said late Sunday that Rybkin would reappear Monday, four days after going missing.

Rybkin disappeared a few days after running a full-page advertisement in Kommersant newspaper, in which he described Putin as Russia's "biggest oligarch."

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/02/09/011.html

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2. Please forward this to Karl Rove....n/t

[salin]

4. interesting you should say this... I seem to think todays' GOP

is working to emulate a form of old soviet totalitarianism.

[baby_bear]

5. You got that right, Salin....n/t

s_m

[Dover]

3. The Duma is using the recent bombings as an excuse to cancel elections!

Duma deputy calls for state of emergency in Russia

MOSCOW - It is necessary to hold an extraordinary meeting of the Federation Council to consider the issue of declaring the state of emergency in Russia and canceling the presidential elections, Dmitry Rogozin, the co-chairman of the bloc Rodina (Motherland), told journalists today.

"Today's terrorist attack in the metro is the attempt to question existence of state power in the country," he said

http://www.russiajournal.com/news/cnewswire.shtml?nw=42415#n42417