Monitors Encounter Carousels, Kindred Souls

05 March 2012 | Issue 4836

At 9:15 a.m., Moscow Polling Station No. 104 was packed.
"Something's not right," Anna Grokhovskaya, a young election observer, said as she surveyed more than a hundred jostling students.

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Kremlin Grapples With Series of PR Disasters

Pakistan Roots Seen in Moscow Terror Plot

Dvorkovich Upbeat on His, and Russia's, Future

Why Navalny Will Most Likely Be Convicted

Booted U.S. Lawyer Backed Magnitsky

European Rights Watchdog to Expand in Russia

Monitors Encounter Carousels, Kindred Souls