"no" To "snow Revolution" And Nato In Russia!

[sonyagreen]

The Russians has awakened at once. The whole country is outraged by State Duma elections held last weekend. The authorities attempting to keep power with massive falsifications, lie, and intimidation are illegitimate. Those who “won” on such elections have no right to rule the country, issue laws, nor dictate people how to live. We do not trust such authorities! WHAT WAS HAPENNING IN RUSSIA TODAY:

 

http://rus-events.livejournal.com/

[CraigD]

I don’t know much about the Russian State Duma or last weekend’s elections. From the wikipedia article, corroborated by several news sources, I get that Putin’s United Russia party lost 77 deputies’ seats, decreasing from 315 or the 450 (84%) to 238 (57%). However, I also see that these deputies got only 49.5% of the vote combined. Can someone explain this disparity? Is there an online report of the

 

The main claim of the tens of thousands of protesters and, we can reasonably infer, millions of their supporters, appears to me to be that the official election results are fraudulent, having been altered to count votes for United Russian candidates that were not actually cast, or not counted votes for Communist, Just Russia, or Liberal Democratic party candidates that were.

 

Assuming these accusations are true, and a new election is held in which this fraud is prevented, and UR’s seats fall below 225 (50%), what does this mean in real political terms? Would the 3 minority parties form a coalition to elect a prime minister none of the UR deputies support? Would UR nominate a prime minister other than Putin that would gain the necessary support of the other parties to be elected? Will this happen even if UR retains its majority in the Duma?

 

I need a crash course in Russian government and election law to understand what’s happening in Russia right now. I bet I’m not the only one.

[Deepwater6]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/10/world/europe/russia-protests/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

 

Here is an article about current protests occuring right now in Russia, although it doesn't go into some of the questions you asked about CraigD, but I'll keeplooking. I'd be interested to know myself.