Sentences with phrase «protesting election fraud»

Demonstrators hold Russian opposition flags during a rally protesting election fraud in Moscow in 2011.

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Large - scale protests followed the last federal parliamentary elections on Dec. 4, 2011, after widespread reports of electoral fraud and rigged elections.

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.

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.

In the lead up to the Armenian presidential election on February 15th, the incumbent Serzh Sargsyan of the Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) emerged as the only viable choice on the ballot after four other prospective candidates dropped out of the race, one of whom was shot in an assassination attempt, while another cited electoral fraud and commenced a hunger strike in protest.

She started writing letters, embarking on a journey that brought her into a series of brutal confrontations with police and assorted thugs and finally to a leading role in the protest movement that erupted in December over election fraud.

So as on the anniversary of the election Frauds in Iran they decide to hold a protest outside the Iranian Embassy