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Russia Holds Elections Amid Complaints of Fraud
Russians cast votes Sunday in parliamentary elections that were plagued by claims of campaign fraud and intimidation of observers
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A woman reads a ballot during parliamentary election in the western Russian village of Klukino, some 470 km (294 miles) from Moscow, December 4, 2011. (Reuters)
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Electoral commission staff empty a ballot box after voting closed at a polling station in the village of Ust-Mana some 30 km (19 miles) from Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, December 4, 2011. (Reuters)
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Russia's parliamentary voting took place Sunday under tight controls as police temporarily detained several journalists in Moscow and hackers knocked off line the website of Golos, the long independent monitoring group, December 4, 2011. (Y. Weeks)