(MANIPULATING THE ELECTIONS)
The address to the RF president Putin entitled “We don’t need such a president” begins with the words: “Mr president, we have a long list of pretensions to you.
1. The manipulation of elections – both for State Duma and for president.”
What manipulation and what scale of it did the nazbols have in mind? Let us find out. The State Duma elections took place on December 7th 2003. Already a few days later there were voices that affirmed that the results of the elections were manipulated. The next day, December 8th, an exit-pull was made public by Romir Monitoring research holding. The poll was ordered by The Moscow Times newspaper, the Soros Fund and the Renaissance Capital Investment Bank. 42 828 people were polled. According to the results both the Union of Right Forces (SPS) and Yabloko have made it into the Duma. More precisely they should have. Here are the Ramir numbers:
United Russia 34,1 %