Sentences with phrase «united russia»

Their media will follow the party line of United Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the audience at the United Russia party congress held in Moscow in June, three months ahead of parliamentary elections this Sunday.

In 2014, in the primaries of the «United Russia» before the elections to the Moscow City Duma, any Muscovite could vote, and not only registered electors.

In the future, United Russia has sometimes resorted to an «open» model of primaries, which allows voting to all interested voters.

However, the primaries, as well as earlier, were not binding for the leadership of United Russia: a number of winners of the primaries were withdrawn by the leadership without any explanation of reasons, and in 18 single - seat constituencies the party did not nominate any candidates.

A striking example was the Nizhny Tagil constituency, where the candidate from the United Russia was approved candidate, who took the 4th place in the primaries.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party has unveiled a Straight Pride flag in response to the growing international acceptance of same - sex marriage.

A corruption - fighting lawyer, Navalny famously branded Putin's United Russia party «the party of crooks and thieves.»

Anti-corruption lawyer Alexey Navalny once branded Putin's United Russia party «the party of crooks and thieves.»

Before the 2007 Duma elections, the Kremlin had withdrawn its support of A Just Russia, and threw its weight entirely behind United Russia.

United Russia supporters in the presidential administration grew wary of the challenge posed by A Just Russia, worrying that United Russia would lose its position as «the president's party».

Calls for protest have been mounting since the parliamentary elections last Sunday, which domestic and international observers said were tainted by ballot - stuffing and fraud on behalf of Mr. Putin's party, United Russia.

During the parliamentary campaign, Russians using smartphones filmed authority figures cajoling or offering money to subordinates to get out the vote for United Russia.

Even if the party of power - United Russia - fails to achieve an outright majority, the three other main «systemic opposition» parties (the Communists, Just Russia and the Liberal Democratic Party) should secure enough support to ensure the Duma remains, to a large extent, a Kremlin rubber stamp.

The 2011 parliamentary vote was followed by anti-government street protests across Russia, sparked by what was widely perceived to have been large - scale electoral fraud: a rigged election in favour of United Russia.

In fact, United Russia's majority is so huge that the Kremlin is considering splitting it into a political fraction and a regional group, which will inevitably have disagreements over some specific issues, such as budget appropriations.

Both Pavlyuchenko and Alenichev are heavily involved with Putin's United Russia Party.

Irina Rodnina, an MP from Vladimir Putin's United Russia party and a triple Olympic champion figure - skater, posted the picture on her personal Twitter account.

The law was developed by the United Russia party, which Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and prime minister Vladimir Putin both belong to.

An attack on a United Russia office in Moscow in January has led to Russian anarchists being detained and, in one confirmed case, tortured.

«The bill doesn't touch upon the human rights of the LGBT community,» said the initiator of the bill, United Russia deputy Vitaly Milonov.

More recently, Putin's United Russia party was suspected of stuffing ballots after polls are closed in remote regions of Russia, such as Chechnya.

While still popular at home, his words have prompted youth wing of President Vladimir Putin's ruling United Russia party to accuse him of forgetting «what country he was born in.»

Although this change has not yet been introduced into the lower chamber's standing orders, the «party of power», United Russia, has already introduced pre-introduction screening procedures, making senator proxies a more attractive proposition.

Thus, on the one hand, Volodin has cancelled the Duma's traditional New Year's party; the summer vacation might be shortened; United Russia has formalized measures to filter legislative initiatives, partly with a view to limiting the emergence of odd, PR - motivated bills; opportunities for deputies to miss plenary sessions and vote by proxy have been significantly reduced, with the penalty of pay deductions for absenteeism; and deputies are now required to deal personally with appeals from citizens.

Therefore, declining support for the regime was already apparent before United Russia announced Putin as their presidential candidate in September 2012.

One view is that this is in response to the Center's reporting of United Russia's fall in support.

One United Russia deputy — Aleksandr Skorobogatko — has even given up his mandate, ostensibly in response to the inflexibility of Volodin's new regime.

Regional elites will also likely be rewarded or punished for their perceived ability to get out the vote for United Russia.

Four groups of United Russia deputies were formed in the 2011 - 2016 Duma.

The one formally independent candidate to win a seat in the Duma, Vladislav Reznik, will join the United Russia parliamentary faction.

Partly in response to this large proportion of new faces, United Russia will put on a two - day workshopon lawmaking and budget policy to train their new legislators.

United Russia is counting on slogans such as «Vote for the party of the president.

Four parties are likely to clear the 5 per cent hurdle to gain a portion of the 225 party - list seats: United Russia, the centrist «party of power,» which currently holds 238 seats in the Duma; the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF), a leftist opposition party (92 seats); the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), a nationalist party dominated by its firebrand leader, Vladimir Zhirinovsky (56 seats); and A Just Russia (JR), a leftist party engineered by the Kremlin to capture votes from the KPRF — but which also included a small number of liberal legislators in the 2011 - 2016 Duma (64 seats).

As the chairman of United Russia, Medvedev may find his political future at stake.

With United Russia's commanding majority, sharing committee chairs is one straightforward and symbolic way to try to allay fears of a one - party legislature.

United Russia improved significantly on its showing in the 2011 elections, when it won 238 seats, and also its 2007 showing, when it won 315 seats.

More consequential methods include regime control of television news and pressure on employees to vote for United Russia.

United Russia's parliamentary faction will be split into five groups, although the basis for these groups — ideological or regional, for example — is not yet clear.

His controversial decision to return to presidential office in September 2011 — in place of incumbent Dmitry Medvedev — took place at a time of declining support for the ruling party, United Russia.

If United Russia were able to secure just under 50 per cent of the popular vote in the party - list competition, along with the lower estimate of seats in the singe - mandate district races, it would end up with over 270 seats, more than it now holds.

Furthermore, many governors disappointed in their role as «locomotives» during the December 2011 election, failing to meet their United Russia vote quotas while being indiscreet in their attempts at electoral manipulation.

United Russia (UR) will take 344 out of 450 Duma seats.

United Russia's insistence on fielding «locomotive» candidates was a testament to farcical nature of Russia's «virtual politics `.

Physicist Sergei Shpil» kin claims, for example, that United Russia was only supported by 15 per cent of voters.

It's the photograph that hangs over his desk, a portrait of fellow United Russia party member Vladimir Putin, the country's president.

The pro-Kremlin United Russia party proposed the law introducing prison terms for religious offences after a protest against Putin's increasingly close ties with the Church by punk band Pussy Riot in Moscow's main cathedral last year.

Proposed by United Russia party lawmaker Irina Yarovaya, the law appears to target religious groups outside the Russian Orthodox church.

During that time he employed from 20 to 40 people, mostly students and young mothers, to carry out online tasks for Kremlin contacts and local and regional authorities from Putin's United Russia party.