PACE Monitors Arrive in Russia Ahead of Election
04:24 01/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 1 (RIA Novosti) - A group of 29 officials from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will arrive in Moscow on Thursday to monitor the presidential elections on March 4.
Members of the PACE monitoring mission, headed by Dutch leftist politician Tiny Kox, are expected to meet with presidential candidates and election authorities in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Arkhangelsk and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsk prior to the elections.
A delegation of election monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) arrived in Russia on Wednesday.
Observers from PACE and OSCE are expected to announce their election monitoring results during a joint news conference on March 5.
Tiny Kox will deliver a comprehensive report on presidential elections in Russia during a PACE session at the end of April.
Five candidates – Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, nationalist LDPR party head Vladimir Zhirinovsky, A Just Russia party leader Sergei Mironov and billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov – will compete for Russia’s presidency in the March 4 vote.
Up to 700 foreign observers are expected to monitor the elections.
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