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Russia

September 15, 2023

Press statement: Bogus “international observation” of the illegitimate Russian “elections” in temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories on 8-10 September 2023

Russia

September 08, 2023

US Department of States condemns Russia’s Sham Elections in Ukraine’s Sovereign Territory

Russia

October 06, 2022

House searches of Russian election observers

Russia

September 21, 2022

Single Voting Day 2022 held amid war and restrictions of fundamental freedoms

Russia

September 21, 2022

Condemn Russian fake-referenda - Upgrade fight against electoral disinformation

Russia

September 19, 2022

No international politically-biased “observers” identified during the 2022 Russian regional elections

Russia

August 17, 2022

OPEN LETTER: No European politicians to whitewash Kremlin’s fraudulent elections or pseudo-referenda

Russia

March 23, 2022

Illegitimate Russian government waging war on Europe

Russia

January 24, 2022

No credentials for the Russian Delegation to PACE after flawed Duma elections 2021

EPDE ONLINE BRIEFING

December 22, 2021

Briefing summary ‘Fake’ election observation as an entry door for malign influence

EPDE

November 04, 2021

The Rise and Fall of a Polish Agent of the Kremlin Influence: The Case of Janusz Niedźwiecki

Russia

October 01, 2021

Ongoing harassment against independent election observation

Russia

September 30, 2021

Bogus International Monitors for the Bogus Russian Parliamentary Elections

Russia

August 19, 2021

Mission impossible - Election monitoring in Russia to be muzzled

Russia

August 05, 2021

CEC restricts journalists' access to the electoral process

Russia

May 05, 2021

Shrinking space for citizen election observation ahead of State Duma elections

Russia

February 25, 2021

Russia election alert #8 - Duma elections 2021

EPDE statement

February 17, 2021

EPDE condemns repressions against independent election observers in Belarus and Russia

Russia

January 25, 2021

'Foreign agents' law prohibits citizen observation of elections

Russia

January 21, 2021

Foreign agents law expanded ahead of 2021 State Duma election

Russia

December 09, 2020

'International experts' endorsed controversial all-Russian voting on constitutional amendments

EPDE Publication

December 07, 2020

Money and politics – need for new rules of the game

Russia

September 15, 2020

Trend against established parties. Candidates under undue pressure.

Russia

September 11, 2020

Unlevel playing field in regional and local elections

EPDE

July 21, 2020

Dossier: Impact of COVID-19 on election processes in the EaP and Russia

EPDE

July 07, 2020

Launch of Politically Biased Election Observers Database

Russia

July 02, 2020

European politicians to legitimize constitutional changes in Russia

Russia

June 29, 2020

Far-right European politicians to whitewash constitutional vote in Russia

EPDE Publication

April 10, 2020

Fake election observation as Russia's tool of election interference: The Case of AFRIC

Russia

April 08, 2020

msn.com

Policy Alert #4 - How corona thwarts Putin's plan to change the constitution

COVID-19

March 26, 2020

Postponed elections due to COVID-19

Russia

February 13, 2020

Dmitri Lovetsky/DPA

Election alert # 3 - Constitutional amendments in Russia – risk of a legal chaos

EPDE Publication

December 05, 2019

Foreign Observation of the Illegitimate Elections in South Ossetia and Abkhazia in 2019

EPDE Publication

October 30, 2019

Controversial 'International Observation' at the 2019 Regional elections in Russia

HDIM

September 24, 2019

OSCE/Piotr Dziubak

Growing acceptance for citizen election observers – except in Russia

Russia

September 12, 2019

Dmitri Lovetsky/DPA

Election alert #2 - Outcome of the regional elections and violations encountered by independent observers

Russia

September 05, 2019

DW/E. Barysheva

Russia election alert #1 - Devaluation of election institution ahead of regional elections

Russia

July 18, 2019

“Strong tendencies to divide Russia's and Germany’s civil societies”

EPDE

June 06, 2019

New EPDE publication "Russian Interference, and Where to Find It"

Russia

June 04, 2019

imago/imagebroker

How should the Council of Europe treat Russia?

EPDE

February 15, 2019

New EPDE booklet on politically biased election observation

Lithuania

December 04, 2018

IESC publishes paper on Russia’s election meddling

Russia

October 08, 2018

Regional elections 2018: Politically biased election observation

Russia

October 08, 2018

Stefanie Schiffer was denied a Russian visa

HDIM

September 13, 2018

EPDE calls on Russia: Remove the listing

Russia

May 11, 2018

German scientist community supports EPDE

Russia

May 07, 2018

Media coverage of EPDE's listing as "undesirable" in Russia

Russia

April 19, 2018

Russian Golos forced to temporarily freeze its cooperation with EPDE

Russia

April 16, 2018

Kremlin-friendly election observers from Europe and US at the presidential elections in Russia

Russia

April 16, 2018

Censorship and manipulation: How the media affected the outcome of the election in Russia

Russia

April 03, 2018

Foreign observation of the illegitimate presidential election in Crimea in March 2018

Russia

March 22, 2018

Media hate campaign against EPDE

Russia

March 22, 2018

300 observers monitored the presidential election upon individual invitation from the Russian parliament

Russia

March 21, 2018

DRA on the listing of EPDE and IESC as "undesirable" organisations

Russia

March 20, 2018

GOLOS preliminary statement based on the results of presidential election observation

Russia

March 20, 2018

Reactions on the listing of EPDE as an "undesirable" organisation in the Russian Federation

Russia

March 19, 2018

Statement by the Board of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum

Russia

March 16, 2018

EU calls on Russia to remove EPDE's listing as "undesirable"

Russia

March 16, 2018

Key European media report on EPDE's listing as "undesirable" in Russia

Russia

March 15, 2018

Children, contests and threats: How authorities mobilize voters to participate in the presidential election in Russia