The presidential election in Romania was conducted in a competitive environment, with 14 candidates registered for the first round.

It has been more than two years since as a number of Russian NGOs appealed to the ECHR to consider the facts of pressure that has been systematically used by the Russian authorities against civil society...

The fact that the outcome of the elections was predictable and that no real contest was involved resulted in reduced interest among voters. Voter turnout in most regions came in at between fifteen and thirty per cent.

On September 1, 2014 the Moscow City Court canceled the decision to bring the Golos Association and Lilia Shibanova to administrative responsibility for allegedly receiving foreign funding while not being registered as "foregn agent".

Kyiv, 27th May

European Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE) led a mission of short-term observers for the presidential election in Ukraine. Initially, 823 observers were supposed to be deployed across all Ukrainian regions.

Monitoring was carried out not only in Ukrainian districts but also in the embassies of Ukraine in Russian Federation and Finland. Unfortunately, observers were not allowed to attend polling station in Consulate in Rostov on Don.

This is a summary report of three election observation missions from the Ukrainian NGO Committee of Voters of Ukraine (CVU), OPORA Network, and the European Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE), which together have almost 6,000 observers in all Ukrainian regions.

Donetsл, 25th May, 2014

Observers of joint monitoring campaign DRO "Committee of Voters of Ukraine" and network OPORA in Donetsk reporting that on 9:00 15 District Election Commissions didn’t work:

Joint Press conference of Domestic Observers and International Experts, 27 May 2014, at 11.00 Independent domestic observers and international experts evaluate the conduct of election campaign and the voting day.

All members of the mission have experience from monitoring elections in Russia on behalf of the renowned Russian election watchdog organization Golos. 

Kyiv, 22nd May 2014

EPDE, OPORA, CVU announced a Joint Press Conference "Preparations for elections - Expectations for Election Day", May 23, 1 pm, Venue: International Media Center, 27a Khreshatyk street, Kyiv

Domestic observer’s groups Committee of Voters of Ukraine (CVU) and the Civil Network OPORA supported by the experts of EPDE open their International Media Center in Kyiv for the upcoming Presidential Elections in Ukraine.

EPDE conducts observation of the voting during the upcoming Ukrainian Presidential election and invites EDPE members and all Declaration of Global Principles endorsers to participate in this election observation.

In the framework of the project supported by the European Commission the EPDE will deploy an Experts’ Mission to the Presidential Elections in Ukraine, planned to be held on May 25, 2014. 

On March 6, 2014, Verkhovna Rada of Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol City Council adopted a resolution on so-called referendum on the status of Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol.