Action against Facebook owner comes amid deep concerns about how it is dealing with fake news

The March 15-17 presidential election was the most rigged in Russia's modern history, according to evidence published by election experts, observers, and media. Estimates of vote rigging range from at least 22 million votes to about 31.6 million votes, without taking into account the online voting and the election

Defence Intelligence of Ukraine reported that the Russian Defence Ministry leadership has allowed servicemen participating in the war against Ukraine to vote for Vladimir Putin without even appearing at the “polling stations.”

The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, mocked Vladimir Putin on the first day of the Russian pseudo-democratic presidential elections that are expected to grant him six more years in power.

The countless individual tributes to Alexei Navalny show there is another Russia, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash

Putin claimed the goal of the reported breakthrough was "to get a trump card for the exchange of territories in possible negotiations" and to create an "information effect."

The Kremlin has estimated that about 70% of local residents in the temporarily occupied territories (TOTs) of Ukraine will seek to avoid voting in Russia’s illegal presidential elections.

Leaked documents show how Kremlin has pumped money into media content and secret polls to ‘pre-rig’ the election

Editor's note: This investigation, based on leaks obtained by Delfi Estonia and compiled for a joint investigation with VSquare and Frontstory.pl, Expressen, Meduza and iStories, Paper Trail Media, Der Spiegel and ZDF, Der Standard, and Tamedia publications, has been republished by the Kyiv Independent with VSquare's permission....

Vladimir Putin’s campaign headquarters has officially informed Russia’s Central Election Commission that he will not participate in pre-election debates, reports TASS.

The news was announced after Russian President Vladimir Putin surpassed the threshold of required signatures to be registered as a candidate. Putin is widely expected to win the election and secure a fifth term in office.

Jamie Rubin, the special envoy and coordinator for the U.S. State Department's Global Engagement Center (GEC), did not specify which countries he was particularly concerned about, but said that the primary targets would likely be in Europe.

Russian State Duma deputies from have brought forth a bill proposing the confiscation of personal property from those convicted of spreading "fake news" about Russia's war in Ukraine, a move aimed to increase censorship ahead of the 2024 Russian presidential election, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) assessed in its...

Head of foreign intelligence service says US may mobilise ‘fifth column’ of exchange programme graduates

Even sham elections need to be conducted effectively – get them wrong and they can jeopardise a whole regime, says Olga Chyzh of the University of Toronto

There are 49 countries listed as being "unfriendly," and although the closures will not apply to all of them, the source said it could be a significant portion.

Russia’s presidential election is a foregone conclusion, but the appearance of democracy still matters greatly to its leader

The national election results for the Marshall Islands were declared final on December 27 by Chief Electoral Officer Ben Kiluwe.

France's Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has announced a Constitutional amendment to "unfreeze" New Caledonia's electoral roll.

The day before, Moscow claimed occupied Crimea, and parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson oblasts would be included in the upcoming Russian elections on March 15-17, 2024.

Vladimir Putin, in power since 1999 as either president or prime minister, has not yet officially announced his candidacy but is broadly expected to run.

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin will likely center his presidential campaign on Russia’s alleged domestic stability and increased criticism of the West instead of focusing on the war, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said in its latest report.

Mike Pompeo, a former U.S. State Secretary in Donald Trump's administration, said in a comment for New Voice on Nov. 27 that whether his former boss or any other candidate wins the 2024 presidential election, the support for Ukraine will continue.

The latest and nearly complete results showed Boakai leading with nearly 51 percent of the votes in Liberia, Africa's oldest republic founded by freed American slaves....