Moscow, July 8, 2025 (AFP) - Russia main election monitor closes amid crackdown

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2025-07-08

Russia's main independent voting observer Golos, which monitored the country's increasingly tightly-controlled elections for 25 years, announced its closure on Tuesday, two months after its co-chair was jailed. Golos -- which means "voice" in Russian -- had for years meticulously recorded voting fraud across the huge country as elections under President Vladimir Putin's long rule turned into a ritual with little real choice. Putin faced no real c......

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