Russia's Central Election Commission Chief Vladimir Churov, left, embraces with the Leningrad Region's Governor Valery Serdyukov, St. Petersburg, February 11, 2008.
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Russians to Monitor Presidential Election in the U.S.
There will be eight Russians in the team of the OSCE observers monitoring the U.S. presidential election, RIA Novosti reported with reference to the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Director Janez Lenarcic.
According to Lenarcic, the ODIHR has applied for the accreditation of 100 observers, although not so many of them will go to the United States in the end. But they will be at least 50 in number and the mission will last for no less than four weeks, Lenarcic said.
In the United States, the Election Day is the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November; it’s November 4 this year. The nation will vote for the presidential electors, who will elect the president and vice president in December.
The ODIHR refused to send observers to Russia’s parliamentary election of December 2007 and to the presidential election of March 2008, blaming on Moscow the creation of artificial difficulties in their work. During his visit to Moscow, Lenarcic expressed his regret for that decision of former ODIHR authorities. Then President Vladimir Putin said he had “the absolutely reliable information” that the ODIHR had decided against sending the observers under the pressure of the United States.
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