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  • 2018-11-12 (xsd:date)
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  • and stating that the E.U. would not recognize them. The German and French government also issued similar statements condemning the elections.On November 12, however, Russian state media agencies reported the results of the elections, and RIA Novosti reported that the elections were democratic and open" according to observers. Russia has a history of using unqualified election observers both for elections within Russia and in the territories it controls by proxy. Polygraph.info has reported on this practice on several occasions. Typically the observers are a mixture of openly pro-Moscow individuals from various far-right and sometimes far-left European political parties. This election appears to be no exception. For example (en)
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  • UPDATE: On November 13, the European Platform for Democratic Elections published its report on the elections in the unrecognized territories within Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. The report contains a full list of election "observers," along with their party affiliations if known. The report can be found here.On November 11, authorities in the Russian-occupied, self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics" held elections which were roundly condemned by the Ukrainian government. The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv called the elections a "sham (en)
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