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Putin's party wins Russian parliamentary elections

President Vladimir Putin's "United Russia" party has won the parliamentary elections in Russia. According to preliminary results, it took 64 percent of the vote and will therefore have no problems pushing through constitutional amendments in future. The opposition has accused it of electoral fraud. Were these elections a farce aimed at legitimising Putin's hold on power?

Neue Zürcher Zeitung - Suiza

"This Duma election was essentially a referendum about extending Putin's position of power as the 'nation's leader', Reinhard Meier declares. "Those who vote for the United Russia party (Putin is its leading candidate but is not a formal member of the party) are supporting the 'Putin Plan'. The grotesque thing about this formula is that no one has yet given a detailed explanation of what this plan entails. ... The weeks following the parliamentary elections will show us what Putin intends to do with the blank cheque he had the majority of voters give him through this election with regards to the presidential elections on March 2nd, which are far more important in terms of realpolitik. Perhaps the nervousness and irritability in the Kremlin during the end phase of the parliamentary election campaign also had to do with the fact that the scenario for the presidential elections still remains unclear from an internal point of view." (03/12/2007)

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Corriere della Sera - Italia

"Now that Vladimir Putin has achieved an electoral triumph, the real match for power is about to begin in Russia", considers Franco Venturini. "The plebiscite was to guarantee the moral right to remain leader without becoming president and the Russians have said yes to this. Now he has to consider what to do next ... . The second part of Tsar Putin's plan to remain master will not be easy to put into practice. And the West has very good reason to keep a very close eye on him, for this is the best time to remind Russia that in order to develop economically, it needs foreign investors. Its accession to the WTO and its legitimate implication in big international issues are, with the bare minimum of internal democracy, two sides of the same coin." (03/12/2007)

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Mladá fronta Dnes - La República Checa

It makes your ears burn to hear the Kremlin talk of a triumph of democracy in connection with the elections, but there is an element of truth in it," Jan Rybář comments. "We should remember how the world feared the return of fanatic communists or nationalists until just a couple of years ago. A glance over the border to Belarus - a communist museum managed by an arrogant dictator - suffices. With a little bad luck things could have turned out the same in Russia. From a historical perspective Russia's development has been a triumph for democracy. The former communist empire is freer than one had dared to hope. Nonetheless, democracy is defined somewhat differently in the West. Russia has a long way to go before it conforms to that definition." (03/12/2007)

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Postimees - Estonia

The Estonian newspaper describes the elections in Russia as a farce and reflects on how the West should react: "The West should give serious thought to the question of how it wants to shape its relations with an increasingly authoritarian Russia. Is it normal for such a country to be allowed to continue as a member of the G8 club of rich democracies? And what future does the Council of Europe have when a man like the Russian Mikhail Margelov takes over the chairmanship of the parliamentary assembly? ... It would be naïve to believe that the West is really in a position to influence Russia, but the undemocratic elections, the suppression of the opposition and the growing chauvinism should at least prompt the West to adopt a joint stance towards Russia. The mask has now fallen." (03/12/2007)

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