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There was a rather sour analysis from the correspondent of NRC Handelsblad this Saturday on these elections in Moscow, where any other party that had tried to even get on the ballot had simply been dismissed by the bureacratic procedures. A threshold of 7 percent wasn't even mentioned.

Yea for democracy...

by Nomad on Tue Oct 13th, 2009 at 03:41:08 AM EST
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They have two parties, after all.  That pretty much comes up to the standard used in the USA.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Tue Oct 13th, 2009 at 11:02:46 AM EST
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